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which might well be set aside as sanc- 

 tuaries. 



Northern Ontario's Loss. 



And, in this connection, the prime dis- 

 aster to the game resources in Northern 

 Ontario and Quebec has not been due 

 to improved firearms or such access of 

 direct destruction as swept away the 

 buffalo and other western game, but 

 was incidental to tremendously destruc- 

 tive forest fires. 



It has been estimated that from the 

 north shore of the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence to the barrens, three-fourths of 

 the country, formerly forested, has been 

 laid waste within historic times. Most 

 of this area having only a thin mat of 

 organic soil, this latter has been entire- 

 ly destroyed over large areas, leaving 

 only rock and sterile subsoil. Where 

 the soil remains, gradual replacement of 

 the forest goes on, but when cover is 

 destroyed, such low and swampy lands 

 as were spared can support but little 

 game, and afford little protection from 

 the hunters to such as survive. 



Many such areas formerly abounding 

 in game, which supported a considerable 

 number of Indians, are now sterile and 

 contain no game. The lesson this 

 teaches is obvious: namely, that the 

 strictest supervision of all forested 

 areas with a view to minimizing fire 

 hazards is imperative if our forests 

 are to be preserved and in them the 

 game that is dependent on the forests. 

 MAXWELL CRiATTAM, 

 Director of I'aris Animals. 



Will Learn From Sweden 

 The Canadian Lulp and I'aper Asso- 

 ciation has decided to send Mr. Edward 

 Beck of its executive staff to Sweden 

 early next year to make a study of Swed- 

 ish forestry methods and report upon 

 them. Mr. Beck, who is a trained news- 

 paper man, will go in the capacity of an 

 observer and not as a forestry propagan- 

 dist. His reports will be syncHcatcd to a 

 number of leadino- Canadian newspapers 

 and trade journals. 



This constitutes one of the most far- 



seeing and beneficial enterprises yet un- 

 dertaken by the Canadian Pulp and 

 Paper Association. Sweden provides the 

 closest analogy to Canadian forest and 

 industrial conditions. The co-operation 

 of the State and the wood-using indus- 

 tries in schemes of forest conservation 

 far exceeds any development along these 

 lines in the Dominion of Canada. Mr. 

 Beck's reports on Swedish forestry will 

 therefore possess not only popular in- 

 terest for Canadians, but valuable infor- 

 mation calculated to assist us in formu- 

 lating our own forest pohcies. 



Hardwood Bush Sells High 



At the sale of the W. H. Woods estate, 

 at Bayfield, Ont., J. E. Baechler, of the 

 Goderich Manufacturing Co., Goderich 

 purchased a property of 123 acres, in- 

 cluding ninety acres of hardwood bush, 

 at a price of $28,100. A parcel of 103 

 acres with the buildings thereon %vas pur- 

 chased by Thos. McCurdy, of Stratford, 

 for $5,700. 



A Business Leader's View. 



Jos. N. Shenstone, First Vice-Presi- 

 dent and Treasurer of the Massey 

 Harris Co., Limited, Toronto, writes to 

 the Canadian Forestry Association: 

 'T have received your favor of the 

 12th inst., advising me that I had 

 been nominated for membersliip in 

 the Canadian Forestry Association, 

 and I have signed the card and sent it 

 in." 



"I feel that the Association has a 

 (Hstinct place in our national life, and 

 iHight to be supported." 



High Bid for Spruce. 



Fifty square miles of timber limits 

 were disposed of by the Government of 

 Ontario to J. T. Home, Fort William, 

 and a new record set for the price of 

 spruce. Mr. Home offered $6.10 a 

 cord for spruce and 21 cents a tic for 

 jack pine. A few days before $6.05 

 was the highest price paitl for spruce, 

 and previous to that $3.46 was the larg- 

 est tender. The litnits arc situated near 

 [ellicoe on the Canadian Xntit^nal Rail- 

 ways east of the Nipegon Reserve. 



