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paper is practically exhausted in the United 

 States how long does anyone think it will 

 take to place Canada in the same position 

 if all the American mills are allowed free 

 access to her supplies? The uses of wood 

 pulp are rapidly increasing, the consump- 

 tion of paper is not likely to diminish and 

 while Canada has a large supply it is by 

 no means 'vast.' " 



The study of the cut over pulp wood 

 lands undertaken last year by the Commis- 

 sion of Conservation, at the instance and 

 with the co-operation of the Laurentide 

 Company, Ltd., is being continued this year 

 and the co-operation of the Department of 

 Lands and Forests of the Province of 

 Quebec and of the Riordon Paper Com- 

 pany, Ltd., has been obtained. The final 

 results of this work will show just what 

 the future has in store for us and give a 

 working basis for the intelligent formula- 

 tion of working plans and proper utiliza- 

 tion of pulp wood lands so as to insure a 

 perpetual supply. The whole subject is a 

 matter of practical common sense and sound 

 business judgment. This is demonstrated 

 by the fact that the two most successful 

 paper companies are those which are tak- 

 ing the greatest interest in this investiga- 

 tion, showing that the policy of looking to 

 the future, which has made them success- 

 ful, will now be applied to their forest 

 properties. 



A visit of the members of the News- 

 print Association to the nursery and plan- 

 tation of the Quebec Government and to 

 those of the Laurentide Company is talk- 

 ed of for the second week in August. This 

 is the idea of Mr. Kellog, Secretary of the 

 News Print Service Bureau. 



The forest fire situation in Eastern Can- 

 ada has been most favorable this year. 

 Some small fires set by farmers clearing 

 land in districts where the permit law has 

 not yet been thoroughly understood have 

 occurred, but they have done little damage. 



A letter issued by Mr. H. B. Cassidy is 

 a model well worth the study of other rail- 

 road officials. This was issued to all sec- 

 tion foremen and urged them to co-operate 

 with the forest fire rangers in every pos- 

 sible way and to try and learn from the 

 rangers the best methods of putting out 

 fires, burning brush and other debris. 



The formation of a Lumbermen's Asso- 

 ciation in New Bruswick, which will co- 

 operate with the Crown Lands Department 

 in the handling of the forests of that Prov- 

 ince marks a new era in co-operation. This 

 Association will act in an advisory capaci- 

 ty and will ensure harmonious action and a 

 common sense handling of forestry prob- 

 lems. 



TREES SURVIVE YEARS OF FIBE 



THE orchards in Hebuterne Wood are 

 in full foliage, despite the heavy and 

 continuous shelling. Philip Gibbs, in 

 a special dispatch from the front to the 

 Detroit Journal, says : 



"With some New Zealand officers I went 

 up to three places yesterday and saw how 

 the wood at Hebuterne and the orchards 

 are in full foliage again in spite of all the 

 years of shell fire. 



"Gommecourt Park and Rossignol Wood 

 are as dead as when I went to them last, 

 with only naked trunks like masts, and 

 not a leaf on any shell-slashed branch. 

 The enemy has been shelling about here 

 very fiercely during the last few days, for 

 several miles on the way the ground was 

 all overgrown with flowering weeds pitted 

 with shell holes. 



"Not any square yards of soil in this 

 neighborhood could be called really 

 'healthy,' and there were some ugly sounds 

 about as German shells burst with ter- 

 , rific long-drawn echoes, but the New Zea- 

 landers sat among the shell craters and 

 outside the entrances to their dugouts with 

 no outward sign of uneasiness, cleaning 

 their rifles, writing letters, playing cards, 

 keeping a lookout over the enemy lines or 

 working about their guns and paying no 

 more attention to the ugly noises than if 

 they had been the buzzing of gnats. We 

 made the most of the noise a little later 

 when our guns opened on to the enemy 

 lines beyond Rossignol Wood. 



"I stood watching the bombardment with 

 a young gunner observer behind a hum- 

 mock of earth, while flocks of shells pass- 

 ed over our heads and burst with mons- 

 trous many-colored clouds into the long dip 

 of ground just below the wood." 



RUSSIA'S ENORMOUS FOREST 

 RESOURCES 



THE astonishing statement is made by 

 A. J. Sack that Russia, including 

 Siberia, has 1,125,000,000 acres of tim- 

 ber which is 63 per cent as much as the 

 whole world possesses. This resource is 

 being set aside by Russia economists as a 

 fund to pay the country's debts. The tim 

 ber must be manufactured and marketed 

 and the work will require years ; but while 

 it is being done, the world's markets will 

 be flooded with Russian timber. 



The effect on America's business should 

 be considered, observes the Hardwood Rec- 

 ord in discussing the article. Except oak, 

 it continues, which is generally known in 

 the market as the Japanese oak, it is not 

 probable that much Russian timber will 

 reach the United States ; but it will com- 

 pete with American lumber in other mar- 

 kets, notably those of Western Europe, and 

 perhaps those of Eastern Asia, western 

 South America and the Pacific Islands. 



"To that extent," says the Hardwood 

 Record, "our lumber business may be hurt 



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means that you may safely 

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 purchase, whether from or 

 through our house or elsewhere. 

 Our favorable advice, when 

 given, is securely based on 

 knowledge. 



"Lacey Says the 

 Price is Too High" 



means that the purchase is 

 surely not the best to be had. 



In our 36 years as scien- 

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 earned the right to be consid- 

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 knowledge and reliability in 

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 by lumbermen, by bankers and 

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by the flood of forest products from Rus- 

 sia. In normal times Germany received 

 forty-eight per cent of its lumber imports 

 from Russia, and England's per cent of 

 timber imports from that source was near- 

 ly as large. 



"Lumber shipments from Russia will 

 come from the Baltic, from the Arctic 

 Coast of Russia proper and Siberia and 

 from the Pacific Coast of the latter coun- 

 try. The principal lumber markets of the 

 world can be reached from those points." 



