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The figures given in the above table were obtained from the annual report 

 on Pulpwood consumption for 1915 (Forestry Branch Bulletin No. 58 B). 

 The cord measure was converted into board feet at the ratio of 554 feet per 

 cord. 



Twenty-four pulp-mills operated in the province of Quebec in 1915 and 

 converted 386,669,000 feet board measure of wood material into mechanical, 



Photo 9539. R. G. LEWIS. 



The above engraving, showing a coat-hanger made of hardwood, illustrates close utilization of wood 

 material. The shoulder pieces require pieces of wood measuring in the rough state only 11 by 1^ by 1 in., 

 and the bar a piece 14 in. long by 5 in. square. 



sulphite, sulphate, and soda pulp. The wood-pulp industry consumed more 

 wood material than all the other industries together, its percentage of the total 

 being 55-3. 



The province of Quebec is the leading Canadian province in wood-pulp 

 production. In 1915 it produced 49-6 per cent of all the wood-pulp manufac- 

 tured in Canada. But this industry could reach a much larger development 

 without seriously affecting the question of supply. In 1915 the province of 

 Quebec exported nearly as much pulpwood as was consumed by its own mills: 

 namely, 624,269 cords were exported and 697,962 cords were converted into 

 pulp in Quebec mills. 



While the province in the past has not had the benefit that would have 

 resulted from the manufacture at home of a larger proportion of raw product 



