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MASSILLON 



OHIO 



Dept. F 



possibilities for new products and for 

 profits. There is also the question of the 

 utilization of hardwood in the manufacture 

 of paper which it is hoped will be taken up. 



Don Ricardo Codorniu, who has been for 

 many years in charge of reforestation, 

 drifting sand work and prevention of flood 

 damage by mountain torrents in Spain, has 

 been elected an honorary member of the 

 Canadian Society of Forest Engineers. He 

 has been for a long time one of the mov- 

 ing spirits in Los Amigos del Arbol, the 

 Spanish Forestry Association and is the 

 editor of Espana Forestal, a very interest- 

 ing and well gotten-up forestry journal. 

 The illustrations in this paper are excep- 

 tionally good and the articles well worth 

 reading. The order of Isabella the Catho- 

 lic was bestowed on Senor Codorniu a few 

 years ago by popular petition. Senor Co- 

 dorniu is an enthusiastic Esperantist. 



The British Columbia Forest Service will 

 again use a hydroplane for forest patrol. 

 The first attempt failed owing to an acci- 

 dent in which the pilot landed on the roof 

 of a house and went through into 'the bed- 

 room of one of the occupants. 



Sometime during the coming summer the 

 Dominion Forestry Branch will test out 

 an aeroplane in the Province of Alberta. 

 The machine will be specially altered to 

 meet the requirements of fire protection 

 work. 



Prof. R. B. Miller, who has been in charge 

 of the Forestry Department at the Uni- 

 versity of New Brunswick, is at Yale where 

 he has been acting as lecturer in the For- 

 est School on Forest Management. He is 

 also taking special post-graduate work. 



The Co-operative Fire Protective Asso- 

 ciations in Quebec have purchased moving 



picture machines and will carry on a cam- 

 paign in the rural districts and those remote 

 from the railways to educate the people in 

 the need for fire protection and forest con- 

 servation. The educational program car- 

 ried on by these associations has in the 

 past done more than anything else to re- 

 duce the number of fires and the people are 

 learning that they are partners and co- 

 owners with the limit holders and have a 

 large stake in the forests. In many parts 

 of Quebec the farmers could not live if 

 they were not able to work in the forests 



in winter. 



Major A. R. Lawrence has come forward 

 with a proposal to put forest ranging and 

 game protection under a semi-military or- 

 ganization in Ontario, something along the 

 lines of the famous Northwest Mounted 

 Police. This might possibly be a success if 

 it were as well handled as that celebrated 

 organization, but something would have to 

 be done to find work for the men in the 

 winter and the cost might make the tax- 

 payers think twice before adopting it. 



The exports from Canada's forests, as 

 shown by the bulletin of the Department of 

 Trade and Commerce for the year ending 

 November, 1918, were $64,281,861, or an 

 increase of 22 per cent over the previous 

 year. This was double the amount of 

 fishery exports and 85 per cent of that of 

 minerals. In addition to these primary 

 forest products wood-pulp amounting to 

 $32,580,619 was exported. The pulp and 

 paper industry is the most important by far 

 for the Province of Quebec. 



The Abitibi Pulp and Paper Company 

 has become one of the co-operators with 

 the Commission of Conservation in the 

 study of cut-over pulp wood lands. This 

 research bids fair to be of the utmost im- 

 portance for the determination of proper 



silvicultural methods in the handling of 

 these lands and is throwing much light on 

 the subjects of reproduction and growth. 



The necessity for an inventory of the 

 forest resources of Canada is becoming 

 more and more pressing. The results of 

 the Commission of Conservation's work in 

 British Columbia will be published shortly. 

 Nova Scotia has been covered, an inten- 

 sive survey of New Brunswick is under 

 way, but Ontario and Quebec, next to 

 British Columbia the most important for- 

 est provinces, still have very little knowl- 

 edge of the extent or amount of their re- 

 sources. A little work has been done by 

 private owners, some of whom have made 

 intensive surveys of sections 2,500 to 3,000 

 square miles in area. The only bases for 

 estimating over large sections are the re- 

 sults of such surveys and some of a few 

 hundred square miles made by the Pro- 

 vincial Forestry Services. The aeroplane 

 offers such a rapid and easy method of re- 

 connaisance for these huge areas, inac- 

 cessible in any other way, that work of 

 this character must be undertaken very 

 soon. The permanence of the lumber and 

 paper industries is of vital importance for 

 eastern Canada and the industries them- 

 selves are doing more than their share of 

 the work to insure it. 



The Laurentide Company, Ltd., which 

 made a successful experiment in grinding 

 hardwood for pulp last year is preparing 

 to conduct experiments in barking both 

 with knife and drum barkers. It has been 

 said that hard wood barks in drum barkers 

 easier than spruce. Experiments are also 

 under way in regard to driving this wood 

 by water. Should the experiments prove 

 successful a means will have been found 

 to lessen materially the drain on our wan- 

 ing soft wood supplies. 



NEW BRUNSWICK FOREST SER- 

 VICE STAFF CONFERENCE 

 BY ELLWOOD WILSON 



jy/JANY of the Forest Rangers, Scalers, 

 Game Wardens, and Fire Wardens of 

 the outside staff of the Crown Land De- 

 partment met in Fredericton on Wed- 

 nesday and Thursday April 2 and 3. The 

 Conference has been called by the Fores- 

 try Advisory Commission with a view to 

 considering improvements in the methods 

 of scaling, fire protection and game pro- 

 tection in the interests of efficiency. 



The main part of the program called for 

 a practical discussion by the Rangers them- 

 selves of many of the questions under con- 

 sideration, although a number of outside 

 speakers also addressed the Rangers. 



GEORGIA TRAINING FORESTERS 

 FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT 



T\ URING the war the forester, as 



much as the chemist and engineer 



has demonstrated his worth. In connec- 





