AMERICAN I'ORESTRY 



CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



By ELLWOOD WILSON 



MiHiiis DuMulas >|iruci' on Kniuiuls of 

 Graduate School. Princeton Univer- 

 sity, planted in 1914, when two feet 

 high. Photographed in June, 1922. Bea- 

 trix Farrand. Landscape Architect. 



'1"*HE Douglas Spruce is a 

 * tree for the million. It 

 would be difficult to overrate 

 its beauty. It probably grows 

 faster than any other conifer." 

 Thus Bailey's Encyclopaedia 

 expresses the enthusiasm we 

 also feel for this splendid tree. 

 There is a softness of texture 

 and color tone and a sym- 

 metry of growth that adapts 

 it purely for ornament in 

 groups and as specimens 

 about the borders of the lawn. 

 Its dense and rapid growth 

 makes it ertremely desirable 

 for tall screen planting, effec- 

 tive in winter as well as in 

 summer. 



Douglas Spruce are reason- 

 ably priced: 



Each Per 10 Per 100 



2 to 3 ft $3.00 $25 $200 



3 to 4 ft 4.00 35 300 



4 to 5 ft 6.00 50 450 



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 "winter cheer" this very win- 

 ter. Send us your order now, 

 and ask for our Catalog F. 



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The Canadian Sociity of Forest Engi- 

 neers has suffered a great loss in the death 

 of Mr. R. R. Bradley, Consulting Forester 

 of Montreal. Mr. Bradley was one of the 

 original members of the Society, and one 

 of the best woodsmen in the province. Mr. 

 Bradley was a graduate in law, and later 

 took up forestry, going through Biltlnore 

 Forest School, after which he did consid- 

 erable work in New Brunswick. He then 

 became a consulting forester and did very 

 good work during 1921 for the commission 

 engaged in the investigation of the De- 

 partment of Lands and Forests in Ontario. 



Dr. Judsoii F. Clark has been asked by 

 Premier Drury, of Ontario, to reorganize 

 the forest service of that province. Dr. 

 Clark was at one time with the Ontario 

 Government before organizing the firm ot 

 Clark & Lyford, in Vancouver, and no bet- 

 ter man could possibly have been chosen u> 

 take charge of this job. It is a trcmendou^ 

 piece of work and will mean a great deal 

 to the Province if properly handled. The 

 Ontario Government's publicity work by 

 advertisements in the newspaper and read- 

 ing matter furnished to various dailies 

 and journals is a splendid, step toward in- 

 teresting the people of that Province in one 

 of its most important natural resources. 



The Canadian Air Board has done very 

 valuable work during the past summer at 

 Victoria Beach in the Lake Winnipeg dis- 

 trict as main base, and subsidiary stations 

 at Las Pas and Norway House. Fire de- 

 tection work has been most successful, and 

 in addition to this the Inspector of Sur- 

 veys was able to visit all his parties in 

 the district by plane in about one-third of 

 the time ordinarily required. In British 

 Columbia, unfortunately, the Forestry 

 Service did not ask for help from the Air 

 Board until the forest fires had gained 

 considerable headway, but after taking the 

 Deputy Minister for a flight, he became 

 convinced of the value of the planes in 

 fire detection and fighting. About a month 

 ago the Air Board commenced work at 

 the Roberval Station on Lake St. John, 

 Quebec, for the Quebec Government, and 

 considerable work is under way in ex- 

 ploration of that section. 



Price Brothers & Company have been 

 very successful with their airplane service 

 in locating forest fires, and also in locating 

 budworm-killed timber, and they have been 

 engaged in taking strips of photographs 

 usually along the water courses within 

 their limits. The Spanish River, using 

 a Dayton Wright two-engine plane, have 

 at last report finished photographing 100 

 square miles of territory, and expected 

 with proper weather to finish 1000 square 

 miles by the 15th of August. The Fair- 

 child Aerial Surveys Company (of Canada) 

 have finished 250 square miles of aerial 

 photography for the Laurentide Company, 

 and have made river and power line sur- 

 veys for the Shawinigan Water & Power 

 Company. They also have a contract for 

 200 square miles of photography for the 

 Ontario Government. 



The airplane is more and more proving 

 itself to be not only practical but a neces- 

 sity in all kinds of woods work. Estimates 

 of timber made directly from the photo- 

 graphs have turned out to be extraordi- 

 narily accurate. 



Some very interesting experiments have 

 iccently been carried out in Australia in 

 an efTort to substitute Australian timbers 

 in the manufacture of aircraft for spruce 

 and fir from British Columbia. The ma- 

 jority of Australian timbers are classed as 

 hardwoods, and one of these nearly two- 

 thirds are of the Eucalyptus family. Al- 

 though classified as hardwoods, however, 

 these timbers vary enormously in weight 

 and physical equalities, and timber suitable 

 for almost any purpose is to be found 

 among them. F'irst of all a list of all tim- 

 bers weighing less than 50 pounds per cubic 

 foot was compiled and specimens were then 

 examined to ascertain the nature of the 

 break and quality of the timber; steps were 

 then taken to ascertain which were obtain- 

 able commercially and whether they were 

 plentiful or otherwise. This, coupled with 

 questions of straightness of grain, uni- 

 formity of strength, etc., led to the reduc- 

 tion of the list to six species Stringy 

 Bark, Giant Gum, Sydney Blue Gum, 

 Mountain Ash, White Ash and Long Jack. 

 The Forestry Association of New South 

 Wales was asked for samples of these tim- 

 bers, which were not available immediate- 

 ly. Inquiry among timber merchants 

 showed the indiscriminate use of the same 

 common name for quite distinct species in 

 the timber trade, there being at least 

 seven distinct species sold under the name 

 of "Mountain Ash." As some of the species 

 included under the same trade name vary.; 

 from 38 to 56 pounds per cubic foot and 

 have moduli of elasticity of from 1,500.000 

 to 3.000.000, the question of selection was a 

 real difliculty. However, these troubles 

 were finally overcome and an order was 

 received from the Australian Government 

 to build six Avro 504K training machines, 

 to be constructed from the native timbers, 

 those to be used being Mountain Ash. 

 White Ash. Cudgerie, Blue Fig and 

 Queensland Maple. The three first will 

 be used for the main structural members, 



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