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cendiarism should be punished with a long 

 term in prison. Every effort through the 

 churches, the schools, forestry associa- 

 tions and the like, must be made to de- 

 velop a public sentiment which will de- 

 mand that no fires be set. 



No one seems to realize the terrible 

 inroads made by fire on the forest wealth 

 of eastern Canada. It appears only in all 

 its appalling significance when one flys 

 over the country in an airplane and sees 

 the burns stretching for miles and miles. 

 When one sees, in this way too, the rela- 

 tively small areas of softwood timber the 

 outlook for the future is pretty gloomy. 



The government of Ontario through its 

 Forestry Department has made excellent 

 progress with its aerial reconnaissance of 

 the country north to Moose Factory and 

 Fort Albany on James Bay. Three hun- 

 dred and fifty hours have been spent in 

 the air sketching in types of timber and 

 making eye estimates. A few pictures 

 have been taken. Due to lack of piaps 

 .some system of control for sketching 

 operations and aerial photography has to 

 be worked out. The country is not very 

 well watered with lakes and most of the 

 timber is in the river valleys. The tim- 

 ber is mostly black spruce and white birch 

 and there are very large muskeg or 

 swamp areas. This is the most extensive 

 u.se of the airplane for forestry work and 

 the flying has been carried out by the 

 Laurentide Air Service, Ltd.. with sig- 

 nal success. 



The Barnjum prize for the best essay 

 on the control of the spruce bud worm 

 has been awarded to Mr. Otto Schierbeck 

 of Price Bros, and Company, Ltd. The 

 essay was excellent and showed hard and 

 careful work. Owing to the fact that all 

 of the information in regard to the bud 

 worm had been collected and published 

 by the entomologists of the Dominion 

 Entomological Branch, the judges decided 

 to divide the prize of $5,000 between 

 the successful essayist and the entomolo- 

 gists. 



The Province of Xova Scoitia has made 

 a notab'.c stride and has withdrawn from 

 settlement all forest land. This is what 

 should be done everywhere and is a vital 

 step in the whole program of conserva- 

 tion, because when land which is only 

 good for forests is thrown open for set- 

 tlement the forest is destroyed and the 

 settler has no opportunity to make a de- 

 cent living on such poor soil and sooner 

 or later moves off leaving a burnt forest 

 and a few abandoned shacks as the re- 

 sult of years of grinding toil. 



The Institute of Industrial and Domes- 

 tic Arts, Gardenvale, Quebec, now con- 

 ducts correspondence courses in pulp and 

 paper making and expects soon to have 

 a course in elementary forestry for woods 

 and fire rangers, inspectors and scalers. 



ment with regard to the work of its 

 Committee on Forestry Policy : 



"The report of the committee has been 

 received by the Board of Directors of 

 the Chamber, but as yet no action has 

 been taken. Postponement of action until 

 the November meeting of the Board will 

 afford an opportunity for any members 

 oi the committee who may not agree with 

 the report, to submit minority reports. 



"Pending consideration of the report 

 by the Board in November, the report is 

 not being released for publication. Under 

 the Chamber's procedure a committee re- 

 port is released only when sent out for 

 referendum vote." 



FOREST POLICY REPORT 



The Chamber of Commerce of the 

 United States issues the following state- 



HOW TO INTEREST THE PUBLIC IN 

 FORESTRY 



The following extract from the Outlook 

 may be of interest on the question as to 

 whether the organ of the .American For- 

 estry ,'\ssociation should be edited from a 

 purely technical standpoint, or so as to 

 appeal also to the non-technical public. 

 The Outlook, September 20 



John Morley, when editor of the Pall 

 Mall Gacette had for an assistant another 

 distinguished journalist, W. T. Stead. -^ 

 Morley, according to a recently pub- 

 lished book had the scholar's predilection . 

 for experts, while Stead questioned theiriT 

 availability in journalism. "Suppose youy 

 had to have an article on sun-spots," said, 

 Morley, "would you get an astronomer 

 to write it who knows everything about 



