CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



759 



CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



BY ELLWOOD WILSON 

 PRESIDENT CANADIAN SOCIETY OF FOREST ENGINEERS 



i 



'"PHE special propaganda car of the Canadi- 

 an Forestry Association which has been 

 touring the Eastern Provinces in the in- 

 terest of forest protection, was unfortu- 

 nately in a collision and somewhat dam- 

 aged. Fortunately very little of the equip- 

 ment was injured and Mr. Black, the in- 

 defatigable Secretary of the Association, 

 immediately transferred his exhibits to an- 

 other car and is continuing his trip. The 

 success of the tour has been remarkable 

 and much benefit is expected from it. 



The epidemic of influenza has had a dis- 

 astrous effect on logging operations. Labor 



will be finished in the spring. The sample 

 plots already laid out are most interesting 

 and much information of extreme value to 

 foresters and lumbermen will be obtained 

 each year. 



The Entomological Branch of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture has just issued the 

 second volume of Prof. J. M. Swaine's 

 book of the Canadian Bark-Beetles. This 

 is an extremely interesting and valuable 

 work, well gotten up and illustrated, with 

 keys for identification. Foresters will find 

 it very useful. We are coming to realize 



mat* 



Underwood and Underwood British Official Photograph 



TIMBKK! 



Falling a tree in a French forest, and the operation is being watched with great interest by the official 

 party of Canadian journalists who recently visited France. 



was already very scarce and so many men 

 have been ill that the cut of logs for the 

 coming winter will be very small. This is 

 the time of year when the cutting goes 

 ahead the easiest and the most rapidly and 

 it has been practically lost. Sanitary condi- 

 tions in the logging camps, none too good 

 at the best of times, became very bad when 

 the grippe attacked them and it has been 

 necessary to send doctors and nurses in to 

 help the men. 



The Commission of Conservation had be- 

 gun the building of a permanent camp near 

 the sample plots established by Dr. Howe 

 during the past summer and the frame is 

 now up and a temporary roof on and this 



more and more that insect ravages of our 

 forests are only just secondary to those of 

 fire and that measures must be taken to 

 protect our trees from insects and fungi. 

 We have so little knowledge of the life 

 habits of these pests that much work must 

 be done in many cases before any intelli- 

 gent means for control can be taken. It 

 would seem as if one of the first steps 

 would be the destruction of all logging 

 debris by fire so that many of the insects 

 and fungous diseases would have no breed- 

 ing place. 



George Chahoon, Jr., President of the 

 l.aurentide Company, has given his services 

 to the Government and is in charge of the 



Lacey Reports 



for the 



Timber Seller 



// is no better commercial practice for 

 you to sell a tract of timber {which 

 may contain a million feet more than 

 you think) on the basis of an old time 

 "limber cruise" than it is for some one 

 else to buy one {which may contain a 

 million feet less than he thinks). 



To be in a position to certainly realise 

 the maximum on any scale is first to 

 know exactly what you have to sell. 

 Then a price means something. 



A LACEY REPORT on your tract 

 will give you the nearest approach to 

 absolute knowledge of stumpage values 

 possible by human means, and the very 

 existence of your LACEY REPORT 

 will justly give the buyer implicit 

 confidence. 



38 years' experience in timberland 

 transactions: consult 



NEW YORK 

 30 E. 42nd Street 

 CHICAGO SEATTLE 



1750 McCormick Bldg. 626 Henry Bldg. 



I** 



Your Prospective Customers 



lire listed In our Catalog oi 99% guaranteed 

 Mailing Lisis, It also contains rital sug- 

 gestions bow to advertise and sell profitably 

 by mail. Counts and prices given on 6000 

 different national Lists, covering all classes; 

 for instance, Farmers, Noodle Mfrs., Hard* 

 ware Dlrs., Zinc Mines, etc. 'litis valu- 

 able Reference Book free. Write (or It. 

 Strengthen Your Advertising Literature 

 Our Advertising Counsel ftndSalea Promotion , 

 Service will improve both your plan and 

 copy, thus Insuring maximum profits. 

 Submit your literature for preliminary 

 .analysis and quotation no obligation. .j 



Ross-Gould 



Mailing 



S-t-. Louis 



*i n ; 



