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CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



BY ELLWOOD WILSON 

 PRESIDENT CANADIAN SOCIETY OF FOREST ENGINEERS 



A N Imperial Forestry Conference will 

 ** be held in London from July 7 to July 

 22. The opening session will be held at 

 the Guildhall and will be presided over 

 by the Lord Mayor and addressed by Lord 

 Lovat. On the 8th, 9th and 10th tours 

 will be made through the Crown Forests 

 of Dean and Tintern. On July 12 the of- 

 ficial sittings of the conference in com- 

 mittee on Forestry Policy will begin and 

 the follownig subjects will be discussed: 

 "The Forest Authority," "Responsibility of 

 the State for Forest Policy," "Methods and 

 Problems of Technical Forestry, Education 

 and Research," "Empire Forest Resources 

 and Consumption," and "Scope for Im- 

 perial Development." From the 14th to 

 19th of July, a tour of Scotch forests will 

 be made, visiting Edinburgh, Birnam, 

 Speyside, Beaufort and Novar. On the 

 20th the Conference will conclude its com- 

 mittee work, and on the 21st will discuss 

 the question of an Imperial Forestry Bu- 

 reau. On the 23rd Windsor Forest will 

 be visited, and on the 24th to 26th visits 

 to Ireland and the private estate forests 

 will be arranged. This will be a very im- 

 portant conference and foresters and oth- 

 ers interested in the subject have been in- 

 vited from all over the Empire. For- 

 estry matters within the Empire will be 

 discussed along broad lines and the ques- 

 tion of providing for the supplies for the 

 future will be carefully gone into. 



Among the Canadian Foresters who will 

 attend the conference are Mr. M. A. Gra- 

 inger, Chief Forester of British Columbia ; 

 Mr. Avila Bedard, Assistant Forester of 

 Quebec, and Robson Black, Secretary of 

 the Canadian Forestry Association. Other 

 prominent Canadian foresters have been 

 invited. 



The crop of Scotch pine seed in Sweden 

 was practically a failure this last year 

 and no seed is obtainable from that country. 



The whole question of source of seed 

 for reforestation is of great importance and 

 this is being shown most strikingly in 

 the plantations of the Laurentide Company. 

 Plants obtained from nurseries using seed 

 from Denmark, probably of German or 

 South Swedish origin are showing bad 

 form, being crooked and ragged in the 

 case of Scotch pine, and the spruce plants, 

 Norway, from seed from the same source, 

 are suffering from frost and sunscald. 

 On the other hand, plants raised from 

 seed obtained from northern Sweden are 

 much hardier and thriftier in every way. 

 Those undertaking commercial planting on 

 a large scale would do well to insist on 

 certificates of origin of seed and plants 



and insist on getting them from the proper 

 locality. Experiments are being carried 

 out with western white spruce in eastern 

 Canada and so far the results shown are 

 good. 



The forestry work of the Abitibi Pulp 

 and Paper Company is proceeding well. 

 A detailed base map of the company's 

 holdings is in progress. An intensive re- 

 generation survey in co-operation with the 

 Commission of Conservation is making 

 good progress. Growth studies for various 

 species and volume tables are well under 

 way. Field investigations to determine the 

 possibility of reducing the logging waste 

 are being made and an exploration of tli. 

 territory from Cochrane to James Bay 

 has been made. The nursery work has 

 commenced and a nursery is under con 

 struction which will ultimately have a ca- 

 pacity of two million trees per annum. 

 The company has decided not to start an 

 aviation department this season. 



The Brown Corporation hydroplane was 

 assembled at Sanmaur and made its first 

 trip to the summer base at the Gouin Dam 

 on May 15. It will be used in reconnois- 

 sance and photographic mapping work. 



The Laurentide aviation work has com- 

 menced and daily flights are being made 

 taking photos of construction work on the 

 new water supply system, progress of 

 drives, lands to be bought for reforestation 

 and timber holdings. An up-to-date photo- 

 graphic laboratory has been installed. 



Dr. Unwin, of London, a member of the 

 Canadian Society of Forest Eigineers, has 

 proposed the formation of an Imperial 

 Society of Foresters and the matter is un- 

 der discussion. This recalls the attempt 

 made by the writer in 1911 to form an In- 

 ternational Society of Foresters. 



An investigation of the conduct of the 

 Department of Lands and Forests of 

 Ontario under the late Government is un- 

 der way and the returns made by licensees 

 of Crown timber lands are being carefully 

 scrutinized. So far the investigation shows 

 that the supervision of lumbering opera- 

 tions was very lax and that little care 

 was exercised by the Government to col- 

 lect all that should have been paid in. It 

 is hoped that the new Government will 

 begin a rational and business-like manage- 

 ment of its immensely valuable timber re 

 sources. 



The forest fire situation in New Bruns- 

 wick has been very difficult this spring 

 owing to the continued dry weather. A 

 large fire has occurred on the lands of the 

 J. B. Snowball Company. Effective effort 



