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proving the conditions. They are paying 

 ten dollars per month less than neighboring 

 camps and are getting the best men. 

 young man who has just been in the 

 Quebec woods as an assistant scaler says 

 that if a phonograph and some records were 

 put into each logging camp the men would 

 appreciate it greatly. Recreation for log 

 gers has never been considered in making 

 plans for operations and there can be no 

 shadow of doubt but that better living con- 

 ditions and a certain amount of recreation 

 and decent treatment would have the same 

 effect in a logging camp as in a mill. Lum- 

 berjacks are just as human as any one else. 

 The Laurentide Company, Ltd., has com- 

 pleted a two months' ground study of 

 aerial photographs. Detailed studies were 

 made of individual trees, their height, 

 crown spread and condition with the object 

 of ascertaining just what trees represented 

 in the pictures really were. Stands per 

 acre were also investigated carefully. Some 

 very interesting results were obtained and 

 will be studied and reported on in detail 

 later. Photographs taken of lands which 

 were to be purchased for reforestation have 

 proved of the utmost value. The areas of 

 cleared land, of brush, of timber and of 

 swamp show up clearly and are easily meas- 

 ured with the planimeter. These are in- 

 dexed in a loose leaf binder, each farm 

 being shown in a photograph with a sheet 

 opposite showing the area in each kind of 

 land, the unit price which will be paid for 

 each kind and the total price to be offered. 

 When a prospective seller comes in he is 

 shown the photograph of his land and told 

 how many acres he has of each class of 

 land, he is told the unit price he will be 

 paid and the total offered him. It is re- 

 markable to see how farmers who have, 

 many of them, never seen a map, will at 

 once recognize a photograph of their land 

 and will point out details which they 

 recognize. 



Very light tractors have been tried this 

 winter in the St. Maurice Valley logging 

 operations but have not proved satisfac- 

 tory for the following reasons: Unintelli- 

 gent operation, i. c, trying to operate be- 

 yond capacity and on too narrow roads, 

 lack of skilled handling in running and 

 repairing, wrong kind of tracks for oper- 

 ating in snow. The probability is that the 

 best results wili not be obtained with 

 tractors weighing less than eight to ten 

 thousand pounds with special snow tracks. 

 The manufacturers are seriously at fault 

 inturning out machines made of poor ma- 

 terials and poorly designed and in not 

 sending competent engineers into the woods 

 to observe conditions of operation. The 

 field is a large one and is well worthy of 

 cultivation for the use of some machine to 

 replace horses is bound to come. The 

 manufacturers are the people who should 

 do the experimenting and they should not 

 expect the lumber industry to take poorly 

 built machines and waste money in trying 

 them out. 



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The decision of the Supreme Court of 

 Canada that the Government has no right 

 to fix the price of newsprint paper on the 

 ground that it is a necessity of life, and 

 the removal of Government control, will 

 be a great thing for the cause of forestry 

 as it will enable the paper mills to obtain 

 a fair price for their paper and put some 

 of the proceeds in proper logging methods 



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