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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Memorial Oaks 



THE Oak is generally conceded 

 to be the stateliest and nob- 

 lest of our trees. It conveys always 

 an indefinable impression of quiet 

 dignity. No doubt it is the most 

 admirably fitted of all our decid- 

 uous trees to serve as a memorial, 

 and it is nearly always chosen for 

 this purpose. 



The Oak of our picture is the 

 Mossy-cup, a sturdy, distinctive 

 member of the family, adapted to 

 lawn and park planting. 



The Red Oak is warmly recom- 

 mended for Avenues of Remem- 

 brance, for it grows as rapidly as 

 the Maple, and thrives under ur- 

 ban conditions. 



MOON'S OAKS are reliable, 

 for our reputation as Nursery- 

 men since Ben Franklin's day is 

 behind them. They are listed and 

 described in our new catalog. We 

 will gladly send you a copy if you 

 request it. 



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THE WM. H. MOON CO. 



MORRISVILLE PENNSYLVANIA 



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EUwood Wilson. 



NURSERYMAN it LANDSCAPE GARDENER 

 with 30 years' experience around New York City 

 territory estimating and making up planting lists 



WANTS WORK BY THE DAY 

 in rearranging faulty or unsatisfactory plantings. 

 References furnished. $2S and expenses per visit 

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 Our Specialty. Advise us at once of 

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 Winsted, Conn. 



The standardization committee ot the 

 Quebec Society of Forest Engineers was 

 held in Quebec City to discuss a standard 

 method of forest survey and report. All 

 the license holders have to make reports 

 to the Government and their foresters felt 

 that uniformity in these maps and reports 

 would be advisable. A sort of standard 

 practice will be worked up which will 

 make aW forestry reports comparable. 



Owing to the large reduction in the cut 

 of timber in Ontario, Quebec and New 

 Brunswick, the revenues from the timber 

 cut on Crown Lands will be much reduced. 

 In Quebec this will be to a large extent 

 offset by the revenue from Government 

 liquor sales, but in New Brunswick it will 

 necessitate some increase in taxation. 



Mrs. E. B. Eddy, wife of the late E. B. 

 Eddy, who owned large pulp and match 

 mills in Hull, Quebec, has just given a 

 large sum of money to McGill University 

 to be used in founding a chair of indus- 

 trial chemistry. As the pulp and paper in- 

 dustry is one of the most iirnportant in 

 Canada and also the source of Mr. Eddy's 

 fortune, it is suggested that a chair of pulp 

 and paper making would best carry out 

 his wishes and be of the greatest prac- 

 tical value. 



The Ontario Forest Service is making 

 plans for a large reforestation scheme 

 which will be carried out with the co- 

 operation of the counties and should mark 

 a great step in advance in forestry. For- 

 ests which will either create or maintain 

 local wood-using industries and supply 

 cheap fuel are very much needed. A coun- 

 try with the long cold winters of Canada 

 and without adequate coal supplies needs 

 to look a long way ahead for wood fuel. 

 Strange as it may seem, firewood in Que- 

 bec is very expensive, bringing even at 

 this time of low prices ten to twelve dol- 

 lars per standard cord, and in many cases 

 being hauled as much as ten to twelve 

 miles. The sections surrounding many of 

 the newer villages are almost treeless so 

 far as trees large enough for firewood 

 are concerned and people are burning small 

 birch and poplar poles down to two inches 

 in diameter. In the settlers' eagerness to 

 get their land under cultivation they have 

 cleared and burnt areas which should never 

 have been denuded of timber. 



The Messrs. Widegren, of Heresud, Swe- 

 den, have developed a logging railway in 

 which the rails are whole birch trees, or 

 other suitable species, laid on wooden 



sleepers. The rails are hewed a little or 

 sawed on top, and one of them on the two 

 sides. The locomotive is a converted mo- 

 tor truck with wheels with very broad 

 tread and tired with heavy rubber. This 

 enables the trucks to run on crooked rails 

 and around very sharp curves, so that the 

 poorer trees can be employed. The train 

 is held on the rails by guides attached to 

 the wheels on one side of the train. The 

 gauge does not need to be exact and the 

 wear on the rails is very slight. In Swe- 

 den the railway has been built without any 

 roadway, the rails being carried on timber 

 trestles instead of fill. The locomotive 

 used has been a 35-H. P. one, weighing 

 five tons. One of lOO H. P. is building. 

 The cars weigh about two tons and load 

 six tons each, and with the exception of 

 the trucks are built in the woods. The 

 cars can be of any practicable length am 

 the locomotives are built in sections 

 they can be transported in pieces and pat 

 together on the job. The speed has reached 

 15 to 18 miles per hour and the longest 

 road so far built is 18 miles. Construction 

 costs have been one-half those for a sted 

 track road. The ties last as long as do 

 the ties of an ordinary railroad, and the 

 wooden rails will outwear the steel ones 

 and are only subject to decay. In regions 

 difficult of access from existing railroads 

 the above may prove useful for logging or 

 supply purposes. 



Mr. Frank J. D. Barnjum, of .Annapolis 

 Royal, N. S., has for years taken a keen in- 

 terest in the intelligent use of Canadian 

 timber lands and has determineo to de- 

 vote his time to this end. He has been a 

 generous contributor to the Canadian For- 

 estry -Association, and has written several 

 very interesting propaganda articles urg- 

 ing an embargo on the e.>iport of freehold 

 timber. As a further step in his work he 

 has now offered a cash bonus of $2.00 pe' 

 acre to the farmers of Nova Scotia for 

 every acre planted with spruce or pine 

 during the spring of 1922. 



No one farmer will be paid a bonus for 

 more than 100 acres and the location and 

 method of planting must be apiproved by 

 the Provincial Forester, if one is appoint- 

 ed, if not by Mr. Barnjum's own forester. 

 This is certainly a most public-spirited 

 move and should be a great incentive to 

 farmers to establish woodlots on their 

 farms. The white spruce grows excellent- 

 ly in Nova Scotia, and the farmers would 

 always be sure of a market from the time 

 their plots were ready to thin. 



Plant " Roads of Remembrance 



