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fire protection and inspection are ridicu- 

 lously small. No planting on a really com- 

 mercial scale is being done. They are liv- 

 ing on our capital. However signs are not 

 wanting of a public awakening, brought 

 about in large part by the far-sighted self 

 interest of the pulp and paper industry. 

 Their position is that they have an obli- 

 gation to their stockholders to keep the 

 plants running, to the region, to see that 

 towns and country districts which have 

 been developed as a result of the establish- 

 ment of their plants, do not go the way 

 of the saw-mill towns of Pennsylvania and 

 the Lake States, and to the Provinces which 

 by the lease of water-powers and timber 

 limits make their existence possible. After 

 all true patriotism is good business. 



The Forestry Branch News Letter, No. 

 194, issued by the Dominion Govern- 

 ment is an interesting and well gotten up 

 sheet and shows the attitude now being 

 taken by the Dominion and Provinces of 

 getting the people at large interested in 

 public questions. The people must become 

 interested in the people's business and 

 once their interest is aroused progress will 

 be rapid. The Government of Ontario is 

 doing the same thing by carefully prepared 

 matter' issued to the newspaipers giving 

 the public information and instruction in 

 forest fire protection and tree planting. 



A new form of "Shanty-book" has just 

 been issued for the Quebec Department of 

 Lands and Forests. A "Shanty-book" is a 

 book which is issued to jobbers working 

 on Crown Lands, in which they are re- 

 quired to enter the number of logs cut 

 each day. Each time the scaler measures 

 the logs cut he must copy his record into 

 the "Shanty-book" and this must be open at 

 all times for inspection by the Forest-Rang- 

 er. The regulations governing the cutting 

 of timber are printed in the front of the 

 book and the penalties for infractions with 

 them in red. Information as to the general 

 value of the forests to the public are set 

 out on the inside front cover, together 

 with advice as to avoiding forest fires and 

 the reasons for not wasting timber. Forms 

 for affidavits of those using the book are in- 

 cluded and on the back is printed a poem 

 by Andre Theuriet called the "Benefits of 

 the Forest". 



Mr. C. E. Lane-Poole Chief Forester 

 of Western Australia, has finally received 

 authority to go ahead with the establish- 

 ment of a forestry school for men wishing 

 to enter the forest service. There will be 

 a school in the central region of the for- 

 ested area for apprentices under the con- 

 trol of a higher grade instructional officer. 

 The course will cover four years and will 

 combine theoretical and practical work, 

 four to six months being spent on theory 

 and the rest of the year the students will 

 be attached to assistant foresters for in- 

 struction in practical work. During the 

 training the students will receive wages 

 and at the end of the course those who 



pass the examinations will enter the service 

 as forest guards and will work up to As- 

 sistant-Forester and then to Forester. 



The cooperative work on Forest Livesti- 

 gation at Lake Edward, under the direction 

 of Mr. Robertson, for the Dominion For- 

 estry Branch and the Laurentide Company 

 is now under way. Sample plots are being 

 measured again and in some areas of nat- 

 ural reproduction where the spruce and fir 

 have come in very thickly and have reached 

 a height of four to ten feet, plots of one 

 to two acres in extent have been laid out 

 and the trees thinned out so that they 

 will stand four feet by four feet and eight 

 feet by eight feet. The influence oi< this 

 thinning will be studied with natural plots 

 as controls. 



CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON 



A Forestry Conference was held in Seat- 

 tle, Friday, October 21st, the purpose of 

 which was to lay the foundations for a 

 sound state forestry policy for the State 

 of Washington. It was conducted under 

 the auspices of the State Development Bu- 

 reau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce 

 and Commercial Club and was presided 

 over by Dean Hugo Winkenwerder of the 

 University of Washington. An interesting 

 program of addresses and discussions filled 

 the day and the Conference ended with a 

 dinner in the evening. The enthusiasm 

 and interest aroused during the sessions 

 argue well for the future of forestry in the 

 State. 



INTERESTING REDWOOD NOTES 



Mr. C. A. Reed of Santa Cruz, Cali- 

 fornia, sends the following interesting ob- 

 servations concerning two redwood trees 

 {Sequoia sempervircns) cut on the old 

 Grover ranch between Soquel and Aptos 

 Santa Cruz County. The two trees were 

 three and four feet in diameter respectively 

 and on one he counted seventy-eight rings 

 and on the other ninety-three. Instead of 

 the inner rings being wider and the outer 

 narrower as has been the case on all other 

 trees where he has counted the rings, the 

 inner rings of these two trees were not over 

 one sixteenth of an inch wide and the trees 

 showed very little growth until they were 

 forty or fifty years old. From that time 

 on the growth was rapid and the outer 

 rings showed an annual growth of one 

 fourth to three eighths of an inch. These 

 two trees had come from seeds and not 

 from sprouts surrounding a tree that had 

 been cut as had been the case with the oth- 

 er trees on which he counted the rings, so 

 the inference is that it took them forty or 

 fifty years to overcome an unfavorable en- 

 vironment and get a good start. 



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