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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



TREE 

 SEEDS 



THERE is prob- 

 ably nothing 

 that gives so 

 much for so little as 

 does the planting of a 

 tree seed. All you do 

 is plant the seed and 

 for the next half cen- 

 tury, if it' s a fruit tree, 

 you enjoy delicious 

 food prepared by Na- 

 ture's hand. If it is 

 a shade tree you and 

 those who follow you 

 are sheltered from the 

 fierce beating sun and 

 from the dangers of 

 floods, such as are the 

 misfortune of treeless 



China. 



Thorburn's Tree Seeds 

 are chosen with the ut- 

 most care. They are of 

 exceptionally high stand- 

 ard and their perfection 

 will be apparent to you 

 for generations after you 

 plant them. Thorburn 

 has meant quality for 116 

 years. 



Catalog and information 

 will be sent on request. 

 Write us today. 



J. M. Thorburn & Co. 



Established 1802 



53 Barclay St., through to 



54 Park Place 



New York City 



A resident of Nashwaak appeared before 

 the magistrate at Fredericton on September 

 17th to answer to a charge of having set 

 a fire without the necessary fire permit on 

 the 26th of August. As it was a very 

 dry windy day, this fire would have done 

 very serious damage to the surrounding 

 forest if twenty-five men had not gathered 

 quickly to extinguish it. The surrounding 

 residents are much aroused over the care- 

 lessness of their neighbor, which might 

 have been the cause of very serious results. 



A similar case was heard in Anderson, 

 Restigouche County, on the same date, 

 against a settler who, after being person- 

 ally warned, set fire to his slash without a 

 permit on another dry windy day, the 22nd 

 of August, and this fire was not extin- 

 guished until after five hundred dollars 

 damage was done. 



In both cases the offenders pleaded guilty 

 and were fined $20 and costs. 



There is little excuse for this neglect, 

 as the law was thoroughly published in 

 both sections. The maximum penalty for 

 setting a fire in the closed season, April 

 15th to October 15th, without a fire permit, 

 is two hundred dollars and costs. 



being under lease after the first of August, 

 1918, the Government of today is entitled 

 to deal with them as they see fit. 



An unusual announcement to come from 

 the Department of Crown Lands for the 

 Province of New Brunswick and one also 

 of unusual interest, not only to lumbermen, 

 but to the people generally, was made un- 

 der the signature of the Minister of Lands 

 and Mines. This announcement advertises 

 the fact that the lands located in different 

 sections of the Province which were ad- 

 vertised in the Royal Gazette to be sold 

 on the 5th of September under the lease 

 plan as authorized by Legislation of 1913, 

 will now be put up to competitive bidding 

 on the basis of straight stumpage rate per 

 thousand superficial feet, the upset price 

 of which will be announced at the hour of 

 the sale. So far as these lands are con- 

 cerned at any rate, this is a decided change 

 of policy from that which has been fol- 

 lowed by the Crown Land Department since 

 the days when Honorable A. G. Blair was 

 Premier. There are many hundreds of 

 thousands, probably millions of acres of 

 private lands in the Province, the lumber 

 of which is cut upon the business basis 

 which the present Minister of Lands and 

 Mines is at least determined to experiment 

 upon, as evidenced by the terms and con- 

 ditions of the announcement he is now 

 making to the public. It will, of course, 

 be seen in a very short time, whether the 

 departure from the mileage method is to 

 the advantage of the Province or not, and 

 the explanation of the postponement of the 

 sale advertised for September 5th can be 

 found in the present sale announcement of 

 the Minister of Lands and Mines. 



The lands, the lumber of which is now 

 being offered for sale, did not come within 

 the bonus arrangements of 1913, and not 



Lieut. F. Bruce Robertson has been re- 

 ported killed in action. He enlisted three 

 years ago and went over with a draft which 

 reinforced the Princess Patricias. He was 

 killed September 9th, his 26th birthday. 

 He was a graduate of the Faculty of For- 

 estry at Toronto, in the class of 1914. Up 

 to the time of his enlistment he was em- 

 ployed by the Dominion Forestry Branch, 

 at Albert, Saskatchewan. 



Lieut. H. R. Christie was formerly a 

 member of the head office staff in the 

 British Columbia Forest Branch, in charge 

 of the office of Operation. He enlisted in 

 one of the field companies of civil engi- 

 neers and has seen about three years serv- 

 ice in France. He has just returned to 

 Canada after having received the Military 

 Cross and having been slightly wounded. 

 He is to join the Canadian Expedition to 

 Siberia. He is one of Dr. Fernow's gradu- 

 ates. 



Lieut. Wm. Kilby of the Royal Air Force 

 is now completing his course of training 

 in Canada for pilot. He was formerly 

 fire inspector for the Canadian Northern 

 Railway, and secured a commission with 

 one of the battalions of Highlanders, being 

 afterwards transferred to the Royal Air 

 Force, where he had experience in France 

 as an observer. 



BLACK WALNUT BEING ROUNDED 

 UP 



A NATION-WIDE canvas for black 

 walnut is now going on. From Maine 

 to California they are searching the 

 back lots in every village, hamlet and town 

 for the big walnut trees that have long 

 been thought of little use except for shade 

 purposes. 



This sudden activity is in response to 

 urgent requests on the part of the War 

 Department for black walnut timber from 

 which to manufacture gun stocks for the 

 United States Army. The fact that there 

 are few, if any, commercial growths of this 

 timber, makes the task before the Govern- 

 ment most difficult. 



Added to this, it is now stated that Ger- 

 many had been quietly, but certainly pick- 

 ing up black walnut timber in this country 

 for years, and shipping it to her own muni- 

 tion factories, with the result that German 

 army rifles are mostly built from Ameri- 

 can walnut. 



WOOD FUEL A FARM PRODUCT 



FARMERS are asked again to help out 

 in the fuel shortage by producing more 

 wood. The scarcity of labor makes 

 this a serious problem, but the prices of 

 wood are such that considerable sacrifice 

 can be made to get wood. The Fuel Ad- 

 ministration announces that many import- 

 ant industries will be short of coal. Wood 



