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men and pulp and paper men, who consti- 

 tute a minority on the board and have a 

 vote as to the policy of the Government. 

 Ontario and Quebec are going to be asked 

 to appoint similar committees. 



Mr. G. C. Piche, Chief Forester of 

 Quebec, has just announced in the "Canada 

 Lumberman" that his Government will "in 

 the near future fix a maximum quantity of 

 cutting to be done per acre." He has ex- 

 plained this to mean that if a licensee has, 

 say, 10,000 acres, he wHl be allowed to cut 

 each year on the whole tract, say, sixty-five 

 board feet per acre, the approximate aver- 

 age annual increment, or 650,000 board feet 

 per year on the whole tract. This would be 

 somewhat less than three logs per acre. 

 There is no question but that some such 

 restriction is necessary to keep the forests 

 productive, but just how it works out in 

 practice remains to be seen. At present the 

 Government has not enough men on its staff 

 to supervise such work. It could be easily 

 controlled, however, by some penalty on 

 those who cut a greater number of logs 

 over their total holdings than that specified 

 by the regulation. However, this would 

 not prevent over cutting on one section and 

 no cutting on another, which would result 

 in getting everything oflf the land which 

 the diameter regulations would allow. It 

 will be of great interest to see how the 

 Government will work out this scheme. 



During the week of December 19 the 

 organization meeting of the Quebec Society 

 of Forest Engineers was held in the City 

 of Quebec. Legislation has been passed 

 making forest engineers a "closed corpora- 

 tion," that is, no person can practice as a 

 forester in the Province of Quebec unless 

 he is a member of this association. Should 

 a non-member call himself a forest engineer 

 or practice, he is subject to a fine, and in 

 default of payment, to imprisonment. The 



fees chargeable to the public are also fixed 

 and foresters can sue for them in the 

 courts. This puts the profession of forestry 

 on an equal footing with that of civil en- 

 gineers, land surveyors, physicians and law- 

 yers. The association commences its career 

 with a membership of 75. The require- 

 ments for associate membership are 21 

 years of age, must be a British subject and 

 a graduate of the forest school of Laval 

 University, or the Montreal Technical 

 School, or a university of recognized stand- 

 ing in the Province of Quebec. All grad- 

 uates of other forest schools must appear 

 before the Board of Examiners, and if their 

 credentials are satisfactory they may be 

 permitted to practice. In order to obtain 

 full membership, a man must have been 

 a member of this society for 3 years and 

 have been in active practice. A committee 

 was appointed to draw up a practice for 

 making valuation surveys, for working 

 plans and for requests for the reduction 

 of the diameter limit, to be presented to the 

 Government. This society will undoubtedly 

 do much to bring together the foresters 

 in the Province and to raise the standard 

 of work. A meeting of all the foresters 

 working for private corporations was also 

 held and matters of mutual interest dis- 

 cussed. The men present decided to meet 

 informally at least four times a year, to 

 discuss the problems which confront them 

 as foresters for large pulp and paper com- 

 panies, and much valuaible information was 

 exchanged. 



The final report of the Canadian Air 

 Board for this year has just been issued 

 and shows remarkable achievement in the 

 application of flying to forestry work and 

 fire protection during the past season. In 

 this connection the Keewattin Lumber 

 Company has borrowed from the Air 

 Board a dirigible baloon 143 feet long, 75 

 H. P., and hope to try this out in their 

 forestry work next year. 



QUARANTINE AREA CHANGED 



Ten towns in New Hampshire, Massa- 

 chusetts, and Rhode Island are transferred 

 from lightly infested gipsy moth area to 

 the generally infested gipsy moth area ac- 

 cording to regulations supplemental to 

 a notice of quarantine No. 45 on ac- 

 count of the Gipsy Moth and Brown-Tail 

 Moth. The amendment becameeflfective Jan- 

 uary I, 1922 according to an announcement 

 made by the Federal Horticultural Board 

 of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. This transfer is based on actual condi- 

 tion of infestation and will simplify the en- 

 forcement of the quarantine by lessening 

 the inspection and certification. The towns 

 included are Fitzwilliam, N. H. ; Royal- 

 ston, Athol, Phillipston, Templeton, Hub- 

 bardston, Rutland, Paxton, and Leicester, 

 Massachusetts and Narragansett, Rhode 

 Island. 



STATES' APPROPRIATIONS FOR 

 FORESTRY 



Reflecting the growing public interest 

 in timber production and the need for for- 

 est protection and reforestation throughout 

 the country. State appropriations for fores- 

 try show an increase of 78 per cent over 

 those of 1919, according to figures com- 

 piled by the Forest Service, United States 

 Department of Agriculture. The total ap- 

 propriation by 32 State legislatures for 1921 

 amounted to $4,065,434. New York leads, 

 with over $1,000,000, and Pennsylvania 

 holds second place, with $860,000. The 

 greatest percentage of increase is shown in 

 California, where the forestry appropria- 

 tion of $45,800 for 1919 was raised to $398,- 

 800 for 1921, or 771 per cent. Kentucky, 

 Minnesota, and West Virginia alone show 

 decreased appropriations. 



