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Hunting Season Cut Off. 



" Tlie f()lli)\vinj( is indeed a notcworlliy 

 despatcli. I'^nr a luintin.L;- season to be 

 arbitrarily cut off l)y public autbority be- 

 cause of. the devastation caused by liuu- 

 ter's cigarettes and luiextinguisbc 1 i-anip 

 fires is i)erba])s a ba])py si.^n lliat the 

 method of persuasion may be back'ed u]) 

 in Canada by a little more of com])ulsion. 

 l)Oston. Oct. 25. — During the hunting 

 seasun which opened last We Ineslay, 

 and which was suspended yesterday by 

 proclamation of Acting Governor ("ox. 

 more than 10,000 acres of woodland 

 were burned over, according to a state- 

 ment today by Commissioner of Con- 

 servation W. A. L. Bazeley. Nearly all 

 the forest fires were started by hunters' 

 cigarettes, he said. 



With light showers forecast for to- 

 night it was expected the fires still burn- 

 ing would be quenched but the ban on 

 hunting will not be raised until the wood- 

 lands are soaked by a heavy rain. 



Exhausting the "Inexhaustible." 



"Since I have seen your forests and 

 what is left of your forests in many 

 places, I have felt it my duty to do my 

 share in convincing the Americans of 

 the necessity of reforestation. I have 

 heard many people say that there is 

 enough timber left in tlie south and in 

 the far west to supply the nation for 

 many years. It is not true. When you 

 are in the west they will tell you that the 

 timljer is in the south. In the south they 

 will tell you to go to Idaho and W^ash- 

 ington. Ten years more cutting the way 

 it is now done by the great lumber con- 

 cerns and there will be a scarcity of tim- 

 ber in this country. You will have to im- 

 port lumber. 



ALEX. E. F. SCHARD, 

 Swedish Forester, in an a Idress at 

 N.Y. College of Forestry. 



Toronto Plants Trees. 



Toronto's Parks Department has 

 planted 4.487 trees upon the city's 

 streets during the season just ended, a 

 record which has not been exceeded since 

 before the war. They are chiefly Nor- 

 way maples and American elms, with a 

 few ash. 



.\ rlespatch from New York indicates 

 thai chestnut trees are l)eing discarded 

 there for street use, because they can- 

 not stanrl the gases from motor cars. 

 "We long ago abandoned the chestnut," 

 said Toronto Parks Commissioner 

 Chaml)ers. "It is a ]:)est-breeder, short- 

 lix'cd, and its foliage litters the streets." 



Mr ( hamljcrs announced tliat Pom- 

 l)ar(I\- i)(j])lars — sometimes called the "ex- 

 clamation mark" among trees — will be 

 used along tlie new boulevard to the 

 ]dum])er River, including the Exhibition 

 water Iront. 



Paper Suits Sell From $8 Up. 



Large (|uantities of paper suits made 

 in German}- are being displayerl by a 

 British firm of importers at its sho]) in 

 Pondon, according to a despatch receiv- 

 ed in W^ashington. 



These ready-made suits are cut to Eng- 

 lish styles and are said to be of the ver}' 

 1)est class of paper texture, and are be- 

 ing retailed at from $8 to $40 a suit. 

 Past month 40,000 of these suits were 

 imported by a firm of transport agents 

 from Germany via Holland, and another 

 consignment of 5,000 is on the way. 

 Further consignments are expected to 

 arrive at frequent intervals. 



A large number of the suits have been 

 re-exported to India and South Africa, 

 says the despatch, but some merchants 

 in London are of the opinion that in view 

 of the present high price of clothing 

 there are wide possibilities in paper suits, 

 especially in industrial districts, if they 

 could be cut more in the English style 

 and to English tastes. 



The agents who are dealing in these 

 suits state that by buying under the pre- 

 sent rate of exchange it is possible for a 

 man to purchase a new suit once a week, 

 and that over a period of twelve months 

 the entire cost would be less than the 

 price of one single English suit. 



In an excellent photograph of spruces 

 and maples at Brandon appearing in the 

 August-September issue of the Forestry 

 Magazine, credit should have been given 

 to Mr. Allan Campbell of Brandon who 

 took the photograph and supplied it to 

 the publication. 



