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rpHE Department of Lands and Forests 

 "- of the Province of Quebec has decided 

 to withdraw the permission heretofore ac- 

 corded to cut "black spruce" under twelve 

 inches, the legal limit for white spruce, 

 cedar, maple and jack pine. Red spruce is 

 included under the head of black spruce or 

 white spruce according as it grows on 

 swampy land or on high land, or accord- 

 ing to the view of the inspector. The two 

 species are so much alike that it is very 

 difficult to tell the difference. The regu- 

 lations will be more rigidly enforced in the 

 future. In referring to diameters, for the 

 purpose of the regulations the diameter is 

 at a point "two feet from the soil." In 

 the past a certain number of trees cut un- 

 der size have been charged for at the rate 

 of two dollars per tree, but as the lumber- 

 ing operations have pushed farther north 

 into smaller timber, so much has been cut 

 under size that the Department has de- 

 cided to enforce the regulations and has 

 made an inspection during the past sum- 

 mer which showed so many violations that 

 they decided to charge in fines at the rate 

 of one dollar per tree. At this rate the 

 fines in the St. Maurice Valley already 

 amount to $50,000, with more to come. On 

 some areas examined, if the regulations 

 had been followed, only four trees per 

 acre would have been cut, an impossibility 

 for profitable logging. If the regulations 

 are enforced and the undersized material is 

 not worth the amount of the fines, the 

 result will be a decided curtailment of the 

 cut which will be quite a hardship to some 

 operators and a constant source of irri- 

 tation for them and trouble for the Gov- 

 ernment. The Department says, however, 

 that if applications to log on particular 

 areas are received in the spring, it will in- 

 spect the territories and if it seems wise 

 to allow undersized cutting, from a silvi- 

 cultural standpoint, they will give per- 

 mission. This would certainly be a good 

 thing for the forests if carefully carried 

 out, but the Government has not a large 

 enough staff to supervise this work, and 

 it opens up opportunities for dishonest 

 operators to bribe Government inspectors, 

 which are not pleasant to contemplate. In 

 the past, when most of the cutting was done 

 on contract, operators had trouble with 

 scalers who were bribed by the contrac- 

 tors to make false returns, and it is cer- 

 tainly wiser to prevent opportunities of this 

 kind, wherever possible. The only feasi- 

 ble way is for the Government and the 

 operators to employ technical men in their 

 inspections and in charge of their woods 

 operations. License holders should make 



out cutting plans for a few years in ad- 

 vance, these should be approved by the 

 Government and the operators should be 

 required to have experienced technical men 

 to carry out the work, who should be held 

 strictly accountable for fulfilling the re- 

 quirements of the plans. The pulp and 

 paper industry has grown to such an ex- 

 tent and is such a source of revenue to 

 the Province that everything possible 

 should be done to foster it and to PUT IT 

 ON A PERMANENT BASIS. If mills 

 are permitted to work against their own 

 best interests and to use up all their raw 

 materials in a comparatively few years, 

 their closing down would be a great calami- 

 ty, even though they had paid back their 

 investors many times over. Keeping them 

 going is vital to the prosperity of the 

 country. 



The Technical Section of the Canadian 

 Pulp and Paper Association will be the 

 guest of the Spanish River Pulp and Paper 

 Company at Sault St. Marie during the 

 week of June 21. The mills of the com- 

 pany will be visited and also several plants 

 of the neighborhood. 



The various companies in the Association 

 have agreed to take into their mills during 

 the summer 63 students who are interested 

 in studies connected with the pulp and 

 paper industry. 



The Council of the Technical Section 

 has passed a resolution recommending that 

 the Association take over the Dominion 

 Government Forest Products Laboratory, 

 established some years ago at McGill Uni- 

 versity in Montreal, and operate it for 

 the investigation of fundamental problems 

 of interest to the industry and for a gen- 

 eral bureau of information. The labora- 

 tory has become moribund through the 

 gradual loss of its staff, owing to the 

 ridiculously small salaries which were paid. 

 All arrangements have been made by the 

 Board of Railway Commissioners for the 

 patrol of railway rights of way for the 

 protection of the forests from fire for 

 the summer. The plans are well thought 

 out and are based on the experience of past 

 years. It has been found that motor speed- 

 er patrol is cheaper than patrol of sec- 

 tions (in the railway sense), but that the 

 latter is more efficient. This is the ex- 

 perience of the C. P. R. Department of 

 National Resources. The St. Maurice For- 

 est Protective Association has not had the 

 same experience. 



Mr. James White, of the Commission 

 of Conservation, read a very interesting 

 and able paper before the Rotary Club of 

 Ottawa on the forest resources of the 



