J II list ruled L'anadiaji Forestry Magazine. December, ig20 



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JVouds Praclice Today. 

 You all know that the forest today is 

 a collection of good trees and trees which, 

 up to the present time we have found no 

 use for. In order to log to the best afl- 

 vantag'e today, we liave to cover very 

 large areas to get a relatively small 

 amount of timber and 1 feel sure that the 

 practical men, the business men of today 

 will very soon come to realize the futility 

 of covering ten or twelve square miles 

 to get a small cut of timber and they will 

 come. to the opinion that was expressed 

 in England at the Imperial Conference 

 this year by forty out of fifty-five dele- 

 gates that the day of natural reforesta- 

 tion is very rapidl)- nearing an end. 



Where Planted forests Sazr. 



This is a very broad statement but at 

 the same time when you come to analyze 

 the situation I think you will, after due 

 consideration, more or less agree with me 

 on this matter. You take large areas of 

 timber and suppose you get from them 

 an average of from five to six cords to 

 the acre as we do in Canada — where we 

 cut under certain Government diameter 

 regulations — you have got to take your 

 men into the woods, take your provisions 

 long distances and cover large areas in 

 order to get out this five, ten or fifteen 

 cords to the acre. When you stop to con- 

 sider that after you have taken out that 

 timber you have got to wait forty or lify 

 or si.w years for another crop which, so 

 far as anybody knows at present will be 

 but a very small fraction of the crop 

 whicii you have taken out in your first 

 cut. you have got to cover these huge 

 areas to get the liml)cr \-ou need. Il 

 would not seem economical or practical 

 to von, and \ou will surcK come to llic 

 idea which has been foriwl on (he e.x]>er- 

 ience of luiro]>can coimlrics, thai if we 

 are goiug to carry on our industries, the 

 best way to get the timber is to get areas 

 as near the mills as possible. Plant the 

 areas with the very best possible stock 

 you can get uilh the very largest aniouiU 

 per acre and then when your logging pro- 

 position comes along, knik how the whole 

 thing is going to be simplilied ! Instead 

 of driving or hauling or railing \n\\v 

 woo'l all tlic \\a\ from lill\ to J(K) milr^, 

 let UN •^;i\ , \(in arc going to be able to 

 go out within ten or twciUv miles of \-our 



mill. i)iu in your ])ortable electric rail- 

 way, utilize machinery which will cut 

 your trees down just the way you cut 

 \our corn crop today, and you are going 

 to get instead of five, ten or fifteen cords 

 per acre, forty or fifty cords. You will 

 reduce your logging costs and simplify 

 all of your operations. Instead of huge 

 wood piles which we see in some of our 

 Northern countries to carry us through 

 the winter, with insurance and money 

 tied up in them, we are going to take the 

 wood right straight from the stump to 

 the mill. We are going to utilize a tree 

 the same day it was cut, perhaps, or the 

 day after. 



The Future in Our Ffauds. 



I know that a great many people will 

 be skeptical but when you come to study 

 the whole thing out carefully and to get 

 right down to brass tacks in the matter, 

 \ou are going to see that for the future 

 this is going to be the ideal method. You 

 can say, "Of course we won't live to see 

 this; what business is it of ours to pro- 

 vide timber for the next generation" ; you 

 can make the same reply thai has been 

 made to me man\- limes b\ managers of 

 wood land (lcparimcni>, "W hat do 1 care 

 about this, my job js to get wood as long 

 as I am working for this companv and 

 when my successor comes along, let him 

 face the problems that are created by the 

 way 1 am logging today." 



1 lia\'c heard managers of companies 

 talk in tluit way. but today we are com- 

 ing to realize that we cannot shirk the 

 resi)onsibility of the next ten or fifteen 

 or twenty-five or fifty years. We have 

 no right today to create a set of condi- 

 tions which are going to be difficult for 

 our successors. It is not hone■^t : it is not 

 good citizenship; il is not good business. 



riie paper and pulp induslr\' is. to a 

 great exienl. a stabilized industry w hicli 

 in all human probability ought to go on 

 for generations. Tlic mills and the tre- 

 mendous installation^ which wc lia\c to- 

 day should not be scrapi>cd in ten or fif- 

 teen or twenty-five years, they ought to 

 go on functioning for several generations 

 to come and people who own woodlands 

 certainly have a responsibility to see that 

 those woodlands are kept in productive 

 condition, (An addrc>> at (. 'liicago be- 

 fore the AuH'iicaii Taper auil Pulp .-Ks- 

 Ni >ciation. ) 



