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Where the PeHcan thrives in a government bird sanctuary. Pelican Island, Florida. 



timber. It is the polic}- of ilic Depart- 

 ment to have all burnt over areas logged 

 when possible, with the double object of 

 saving the timber and of reducing to a 

 jninimum, the fire menace from such 

 l)urnt areas. 



B. N. O'HARA. 

 Asst. Supt. Forest Prot. Branch. 



A Few Uses of Wood. 



Lumber and tin^ber products, planing 

 Muill products, sash, doors, blinds, and 

 general millvvork, window and door 

 screens and weather strips. w(X)den 

 packing boxes, cigar bo.xcs, liarrcis and 

 "kegs, turned and carved woods, lasts. 

 wooden furniture, including rattan and 

 willow, show cases, bilhard tables and 

 materials, looking gla---.es and picture 

 frames, sewing niachine cases, baskets 

 and rattan and willow ware, C(Ufins and 

 burial cases, rules, matches, i>ulp woods, 

 wood carj)et. charcoal, treated and pre- 

 served woods, carriages and wagons, 

 aeroplanes. agricultural implements, 

 dairymen's, poulterers' and apiarists' 

 supplies, wood for engraving, musical 

 instruments and materials, paper and 

 wood pul]). phonograj^hs and grapho- 

 phones, tobacco piles, refrigerators and 



kitchen cabinets, ships and boards, toys 

 and games, turpentine and rosin, wash- 

 ing machines and clothes wringers, 

 wood distillates, artificial limbs, pro- 

 fessional and scientific instruments, 

 liandles. clocks, playground equipment, 

 printing material, trunks, shuttles, spools 

 and bobbins, firearms, pulleys antl con- 

 veyors, patterns and flasks, pumps ami 

 wood pij^e. tanks and silos, bimgs and 

 faucets, brooms and car|xn-sweepers, 

 paving materials, pulpers' woodwork. 



That list will give some idea of the 

 importance of the campaign for a na- 

 tional forest policv. — (."has. l.athrop 

 Pack. 



A County to Replant. 

 N'ork (."ounty. ( )ntario, is preparing 

 to go into refore>tation on a largo scale. 

 The committee in charge of reforesta- 

 tion plans, headed b\" Reeve Geo. B. 

 i'odgct, of Markhaiii. waited on the 

 (lovcrnment, and succeeded in getting a 

 promise of asNi^tance. The countv will 

 h;i\e ti> 1)U\- the l.uid, but the ( iovern- 

 meitt has pnMuised to plaiU it and look 

 alter the trees for forty years, when it 

 will turn it back to the ctMiiUv. 



