CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



1015 



CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



BY ELLWOOD WILSON 



PRESIDENT, CANADIAN SOCIETY OF 

 FOREST ENGINEERS 



'THE most important event from a for- 

 estry standpoint of the past month was 

 the meeting between a committee of the 

 Quebec Limit Holders' Association, some 

 members of the Woodlands Section of the 

 Canadian Pulp and Paper Association and 

 the Hon. Jules Allard, Minister of Lands 

 and Forests. This meeting discussed with 

 the Minister the advisability 'of planting on 

 government lands held under lease and 

 ways and means of accomplishing reforesta- 

 tion. The concensus of opinion was that 

 reforestation was a pressing necessity and 

 that the government should bear some of 

 the financial burden of such work. The 

 Minister said that he was quite willing to 

 consider any plan which the Committee 

 would bring forward and would, when such 

 scheme had been approved by the Com- 

 mittee and himself, bring down the neces- 

 sary legislation. Ways and means are now 

 being considered and the Committee will 

 shortly meet to discuss the subject in all 

 its different aspects and decide on what 

 shall be presented to the government. The 

 ravages made by a fungus disease on the 

 balsam are becoming so serious that in a 

 short time the present stand of this species 

 will all be affected and it will not be pos- 

 sible to cut it. As it forms about 60 per 

 cent of our total soft wood stand this will 

 cut the length of time for which we have 

 sufficient wood in two. The only means 

 for combating this disease that seems to be 

 known is to burn the debris from logging 

 and gradually try to clean up the woods. 

 This would have the added advantage of re- 

 ducing the danger from forest fires and also 

 the cost of fighting them but would in- 

 crease the cost of the wood. 



An active interest in reforestation is be- 

 ing taken by the larger and more progres- 

 sive paper companies. The Laurentide and 

 Riordon Companies have been planting for 

 some years and this year the Price Brothers 

 Company, The Abittibi Company and the 

 Belgo-Canadian Company are making plans 

 to commence. Such progress is indeed note- 

 worthy and speaks well for the future of 

 our timber supply. 



A standardization committee, consisting 

 of the Managers of the co-operative fire 

 protective associations, the Manager of Do- 

 minion ['arks, a member of the Forester's 

 staff of the Railway Commission and a 

 member of the Dominion Forestry Branch, 

 ther with the Foresters of Ontario and 

 New Brunswick, has been formed which 

 will try to correlate and standardize fire 

 protection methods and to develop new and 

 improved means for fighting fires. This 

 is a long step in advance and will cer- 

 tainly firing good results and increased ef- 

 ficiency. 



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Each Reynolds as a rule replaces from 

 three to six operators. 



Power - Driven, Automatic, Magazine 

 Feed, for either wood or machine 



Made in many sizes and types for almost 

 all work requiring screws. 



Write for catalogue and testimonial let- 

 ters from manufacturers who oper- 

 ate from two to twenty machines. 



THE REYNOLDS MACHINE COMPANY 



Simply dump a gross of screws 

 (either wood or machine) into the 

 hopper. The Machine does the rest. 



MASSILLON 



Dept. F OHIO 



The Annual Meeting of the Dominion 

 Conservation Commission was held in Ot- 

 tawa in February and reported progress 

 along forestry lines in all parts of the 

 Dominion. Especially encouraging was the 

 report on the research work completed dur- 

 ing the past season and the large program 

 for the coming summer. The Provincial 

 Governments and private firms are co- 

 operating both with financial help and 

 through their forestry personnel. The in- 

 formation being obtained is absolutely basic 

 and is necessary before we can make any 

 intelligent plans for handling our wood- 

 lands in the future. Permanent sample 

 plots have been laid out where questions of 

 growth, future yields, insect and fungus 

 injuries, effect of slash disposal methods, 

 reproduction on old burns, and the effect of 

 different methods of cutting are being 

 carefully studied. Plots have also been es- 

 tablished for the study of planting under 

 different conditions of soil, number of trees, 

 various associations of species and other 

 important questions. The effect of the 

 drainage of swamp areas on tree growth is 

 also being studied. In one section a perma- 

 nent camp for the housing of personnel and 

 equipment has been constructed. 



Messrs. Robson Black and Ellwood Wil- 

 son spoke at the Forestry Conference held 

 in Boston, under the auspices of the Boston 

 Chamber of Commerce, February 24 and 25. 



A. C. Volkmar, who has been for some 

 years the Forester of the Riordon Paper 

 Company and has put their forestry de- 

 partment on a splendid basis, has taken a 

 position with the Canada Paper Company. 

 He will have charge of the mapping and 

 estimating of their new limits and will pre- 

 pare a working plan for their exploitation. 



Lieut H. G. Schanche, who left the 

 Laurentide Company to enlist in the avia- 



tion section of the U. S. Signal Corps, has 

 been discharged and has again taken up 

 his duties with the Laurentide Company. 



Sergeant Arnold Hanssen, of the Canadian 

 Society of Forest Engineers, had a very 

 narrow escape just before the signing of the 

 armistice when a shell splinter or machine 

 gun bullet went through his steel helmet. 

 He has been taking a trip through southern 

 France and Italy and expects to visit his 

 people in Norway before returning to 

 Canada. 



There has been a great shortage of timber 

 in South Africa during the war and but for 

 the foresight of the early settlers the situa- 

 tion would have been very serious. It is 

 felt that a vigorous tree planting campaign 

 should be undertaken. The railways have 

 already done some work along this line. 

 They now have 55,504 acres under manage- 

 ment, of which 23,532 acres have been 

 planted. The oldest are sixteen years of 

 age and are already yielding marketable 

 timber from which a considerable revenue 

 is obtained. 



The Canadian Forestry Association is en- 

 tering a new year of usefulness with 8,000 

 members. 



A new company, the "Norske Kemikalier" 

 with a capital of half a million dollars, has 

 been formed to produce medicinal and chemi- 

 cal compounds from the destructive dis- 

 tillation of wood. The principal material is 

 fir tree roots. 



There is at present some inquiry for 

 Canadian timber lands from England and 

 Norway and some sales have been made. 



The International Paper Company which 

 owns some two thousand square miles of 

 timber limits in the St. Maurice Valley, are 



