CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



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arousing an interest among children in the 

 important subject of forestry. The lim- 

 ited edition is being sent to masters of 

 rural schools in Scotland as a means of 

 broadening interest in this phase of educa- 

 tion, and determining just how great a de- 

 mand there may be for it. The Scotch 

 Kducation Department has asked its inspec- 



tors to bring the book to the notice of 

 teachers or managers, and if this is done 

 its purpose will have been accomplished, 

 for it will surely inspire the intelligent in- 

 terest hoped for by its eminent author. 

 (Books and periodicals indexed in the li- 

 brary of the United States Forest Ser- 

 vice.) 



CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



ELLWOOD WILSON, SECRETARY, CANADIAN SOCIETY OF FOREST ENGINEERS 



The resignation of Mr. P. Z. Caverhill 

 as Forester in charge of timber surveys in 

 New Brunswick, and his return to the Brit- 

 ish Columbia Forest Service are announced. 

 !"Jew Brunswick is very unfortunate to lose 

 so good a man and one who had made 

 such good progress in his work. Mr. Caver- 

 hill's mapping and estimation of the forest 

 resources of New Brunswick and the classi- 

 fication of its lands was making rapid prog- 

 ress and is of great value and the cost of 

 the work was exceptionally low. It is to 

 be hoped that a successor will soon be 

 chosen and that the work will be brought 

 to completion. 



The Government of Newfoundland is ex- 

 pected to pass a bill permitting the export 

 of pulpwood to the United States. Large 

 quantities of wood were cut to be sent to 

 England and France, but the difficulty in 

 getting ships makes its transport impossible. 



The Canadian Government some time ago 

 took up the question of cheap wooden 

 houses to replace temporarily the homes 

 destroyed by the Germans.' Some samples 

 were made up and sent to Paris, where 

 they were set up and attracted a good 

 deal of attention. The French Government 

 suggested several changes which will make 

 the houses more expensive and Canada is 

 ready to supply them. The long duration 

 of the war has, however, side-tracked the 

 matter for a time. 



The British Columbia Forest Branch re- 

 cently sent a carload of British Columbia 

 timber as a present to the Toronto Techni- 

 cal School. This will serve to familiarize 

 the young men being trained with that class 

 of timber and when they later need to 

 specify lumber in their work they will use 

 western stock. 



Prof. J. M. Swaine, Entomologist to the 

 Dominion Entomological Department, has 

 started on a trip through part of Quebec to 

 study the cause of the dying of a great 

 number of balsams. The trees turn brown 

 and die. The same thing was noticed in 

 France some 12 years ago and was de- 

 scribed as a fungus disease and named 

 Phoma Abietina. Mr. Lee, of the Forest 

 Products Laboratory, will accompany Prof. 

 Swaine, and they will commence their work 

 in collaboration with the Forest Service of 

 Quebec on the lands of the River Quelle 

 Lumber Company. 



Dr. C. D. Howe, of the Commission of 



Conservation, has finished his reconnaisance 

 survey of the cut-over lands on which he 

 is making an estimation of present stand, 

 reproduction and probable rate of growth 

 and yield. This is a very important matter, 

 as the ideas of owners of timberlands are 

 very vague if not altogether erroneous as 

 to the future cut on their lumbered lands. 



In this connection it is very interesting to 

 note the increases in amounts of pulpwood 

 being exported to the United States and 

 the rapid increase in purchase of Canadian 

 timber lands by American mills. The 

 statement has been made that New York 

 is practically at the end of her pulpwood 

 supply and must look to Canada for the 

 future. As the export of unmanufactured 

 wood is prohibited and the amount of tim- 

 ber land held in fee simple is not very 

 great proportionately, the New York mills 

 had better begin to look out for the future. 

 The consumption of pulpwood in Canada 

 is rapidly increasing and owners who un- 

 derstand conditions are increasing their 

 holdings and commencing to reforest. It 

 is just as well to shut the stable door be- 

 fore the horse escapes. 



The number of foresters in Canada going 

 to the front continues to grow and the vari- 

 ous services are getting short handed. The 

 men who have gone are doing good work 

 on the other side and the American units 

 going over now will be very welcome. 



Considerable work is being done this 

 summer in the Alberta Inspection District 

 of the Dominion Forest Service. Super- 

 visor MacFayden has left to take charge 

 of the Fort George District in British Co- 

 lumbia. A telephone line forty-two and 

 one-half miles long has been commenced 

 from the Headquarters at Entrace north- 

 ward along the lower trail, the first twenty- 

 one miles will be pole line and the balance 

 will be a tree line. The poles are being 

 treated with Carbosota. The line will con- 

 nect several points where there are stations 

 and also with two lookout stations. In- 

 spector Manning, of the Brazeau Forest, 

 met with an accident when his gasoline 

 "speeder" telescoped a backing engine. The 

 section foreman who was with him is laid 

 up for repairs and only part of the 

 "speeder" has so far been collected. In 

 the Clearwater Forest a five-roomed house 

 with barn and out buildings is being con- 

 structed at Nordegg Ranger Station. The 

 bunkhouse has been nicknamed "The Ram 



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