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and are heavier than spruce and ash which 

 they would replace, but their greater 

 strength will allow some reduction in sec- 

 tion. Queensland Maple has been used 

 for airscrews or propellers, and several of 

 these have been in use for a number of 

 months with satisfactory results. The 

 weight of the machines built with these 

 timbers will not differ by more than 1 per 

 cent from that of machines built froin Ore- 

 gon Pine, and the strength will be appre- 

 ciably greater. All estimates of strength 

 and weight were based on tests to de- 

 struction of actual components. As Aus- 

 tralia is doing quite a good deal of flying 

 and is continually extending its aerial mail 

 service, the use of the native woods will 

 be of great benefit. 



Dr. W. E. Hiley, of Oxford University, 

 has spent several months in Canada ad- 

 vising Price Brothers & Company in re- 

 gard to fungus diseases and silviculture, 

 and also paid a visit of inspection to the 

 Laurentide Company. Dr. Hiley is also a 

 specialist in silviculture methods, and his 

 opinions in regard to conditions in Canada 

 were very interesting, and his recommenda- 

 tions will be most helpful. 



Sir Claude Hill, who was Director of the 

 Indian Forest Service, and who is also a 

 member of the Governing Council of the 

 Empire Forestry Association, will be in 

 Canada in October next. He is very much 

 interested in extending the activities of the 

 Empire Forstry Association, and will look 

 over the forestry situation in Canada. At 

 the last meeting of the Empire Forestry 

 Conference held in London in 1920, it was 

 voted to hold the next meeting in Canada 

 in 1923. The members of the Conference 

 in England were the guests of the British 

 Government, and it would be necessary for 

 the Canadian Government to act as hosts 

 at the coming conference. However, as 

 yet nothing definite has been announced, 

 but it is hoped that the money will be 

 forthcoming, as a conference meeting in 

 this country would be of the greatest pos- 

 sible benefit, as the men who would at- 

 tend it all stand at the top of their pro- 

 fession and their opinions on our local 

 problems would be of great value. It 

 would also help to advertise Canadian 

 woods and help to extend their use in 

 Empire markets. 



de,z and travel by automobile to Fairbanks, 

 where they will inspect the agricultural 

 experiment station located nearby, and 

 also the one at Matanuska. From Fair- 

 banks they will travel over the ne,w gov- 

 ernment railroad to Seward, and thence 

 by steamer to Cordova, the headquarters of 

 the Chugach National Forest. From there 

 side trips will be made to the Prince Wil- 

 liam Sound region and to Katalla. An 

 inspection trip will also be made from 

 Ketchikan over the Tongass National 

 Forest in southeaste,rn Alaska. 



Mr. Sherman will make a special study 

 of the program of road construction in 

 the National Forests of Alaska for which 

 Congress has appropriated $1,000,000, the 

 possibilities of organized forest protec- 

 tion for the unreserved timberlands of in- 

 terior Alaska, which have suffered severely 

 from uncontrolled fires, and the relation- 

 ship of the National Forests to the general 

 industrial development of the territory. 



FOREST EXPERT IN ALASKA 



At the request of Secretary of Agri- 

 culture Wallace, Associate Forester E. A. 

 Sherman of the Forest Service, left July 

 10 for a two months' trip through .Maska 

 to make a field study of departmental 

 problems. This will be Mr. Sherman's 

 third inspection trip to the Territory. 



Mr. Sherman was joined at Juneau by 

 C. A. Flory, district forester in charge 

 of the 20,000,000 acres of National Forests 

 in Alaska. They go from Juneau to Val- 



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BARNJUM PRIZES AWARDED 



Prizes have been awarded in the $1,000 

 Prize Essay contest on Practical Forestry 

 offered by F. J. D. Barnjum as follows: 



First prize : $500 to P. Swanson, Tim- 

 mins, Ontario. 



Second prize : $250 to M. Currie, Grand 

 Mira South^ Cape Breton. 



Third prize: $150 to Donald C. Oxley, 

 Annidale, Queens County, New Bruns- 

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Fourth 'prize: $100 to R. M. Brown, 

 Pincher Creek, .Mberta. 



"So many of these essays were of high 

 order," writes Mr. Barnjum, "that the 

 judges had a very difficult task in award- 

 ing these prizes, but inasmuch as the 

 names and locations were detached from 

 all essays before being submitted to the 

 judges, the contestants have the assur- 

 ance that no bias or favoritism entered 

 into their decisions. 



".\11 these prize essays will be published 

 in the press from time to time so that 

 the public may have the benefit of the 

 suggestions and recommendations contain- 

 ed in these valuable contributions to the 

 cause of forestry. 



"The unsuccessful contestants can feel 

 happy in the thought that even if they did 

 not win a prize this time they have con- 

 tributed to the welfare of their country 

 by the valuable suggestions contained in 

 their essays, and as our forests are our 

 most valuable asset (for without trees 

 civilization could not exist), they are 

 helping to solve Canada's greatest prob- 

 lem. 



"The success of this prize offering has 

 been so pronounced that it is my inten- 

 tion to repeat this series of prizes in 

 the immediate future and from time to 

 time, also increasing the amount or value 

 of the, same." 



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