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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



A PERPETUAL pulp- 

 ** wood output will solve 

 future paper problems. The 

 Canadian Pulpwood Corpo- 

 ration, Ltd., on the Gaspe 

 Peninsula, Quebec, which 

 we have recently financed, 

 assures this by encouraging 

 natural spruce reproduc- 

 tion and preventing fires. 

 This is a real public ser- 

 vice combination of timber 

 utilization and forestry. 

 We believe in both. Per- 

 haps we could help you. 



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7 East 42nd Street 



NEW YORK CITY 



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52 Vanderbilt Avenue 

 New York City 



Bleached, Easy Bleaching, 



Unbleached Sulphites, 



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Ground Wood Pulp 



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Established 1905 



STERLING LUMBER CO. 



GULF RED CYPRESS 



Long Leaf Yellow Pine, West Coast 



Products. Write Us. 



Finance Building, Philadelphia 



CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



BY ELLWOOD WILSON 

 PRESIDENT CANADIAN SOCIETY OF FOREST ENGINEERS 



"IT is interesting to note the increasing use 

 of aircraft in forestry work. Besides the 

 two Canadian companies operating their 

 own fleets, one of two seaplanes and the 

 other of three, the Air Board in co-opera- 

 tion with the Department of Lands and 

 Forests of Quebec, has established a sta- 

 tion on Lake St. John and will patrol for 

 forest fires and take photographs of un- 

 explored country. The same work will be 

 done in British Columbia in co-operation 

 with the Forestry Branch. A flight to de- 

 termine roughly the areas in western Que- 

 bec and eastern Ontario infested with the 

 spruce bud-worm was made by the Air 

 Board, carrying representatives of the En- 

 tomological Branch of the Commission of 

 Conservation. A flight has also been made 

 from Cochrane to James Bay and moving 

 pictures were taken of the country passed 

 over, the time occupied by the flight being 

 about two and one-half hours. It will now 

 only be a short time before we shall have 

 reconnaissance maps of eastern Canada 

 which will show conclusively where our 

 timber lies and of what species it consists. 



An interesting study is being carried out 

 jointly by Price Brothers and Company and 

 the Laurentide Company. The former have 

 had made a contour map of fifty square 

 miles of timberland and from this con- 

 structed a relief map or model, showing the 

 types and quantities of timber, drainage, 

 contours, etc. The Laurentide Company is 

 taking photographs of this same territory 

 which will be built up into a mosaic which 

 can be studied in conjunction with the 

 model. Interesting results are expected 



Photographs of many different types of 

 country and timber have been taken by the 

 Laurentide Air Service, many showing pure 

 stands of white and jack pine, spruce, etc. 

 To add to the collection, the Lord Lovat, 

 K. T., K. C. M. G., D. S. O., Chairman of 

 the British Forestry Commission, is ar- 

 ranging to have the British Air Service 

 take photographs of pure stands of oak, 

 larch, Douglas fir, Sitka spruce, Corsican 

 and Scots pine and also typical English 

 forests. 



The Quebec Forest Service has arranged 

 to send four forestry students to Europe, 

 some to Scandinavia and some to France 

 to study foreign methods. The appropria- 

 tion for the Forest Service will also be 

 increased. 



A long step in forestry progress has 

 been made in Ontario by the appointment 

 of E. J. Zavitz, Chief Forester to the posi- 

 tion of head of the Woods and Forest 

 Branch. Heretofore the work of timber 

 sales, superintending cuttings, etc., was 



under a non-technical man, leaving the 

 Chief Forester only the fire protection and 

 nursery work. All forestry matters will 

 now come under him. This will bring On- 

 tario into line with the other Provinces, 

 and good results are looked for. 



Hon. Dr. E. A. Smith, Minister of Lands 

 and Forests of New Brunswick, has re- 

 signed, due to a difference of opinion be- 

 tween himself and his colleagues as to 

 the new stumpage dues and the location of 

 a game preserve. This is lamentable, as 

 Doctor Smith organized the present Fores- 

 try Department, which is a model organi- 

 zation, and under it the revenue from the 

 forests has increased markedly. 



This season the white spruce has seeded 

 heavily for the first time since 1917, and 

 much seed has been collected. The Prov- 

 ince of New Brunswick collected 1,000 

 bushels and the Laurentide Company, Ltd., 

 600 bushels. 



The Brown Corporation of Berlin, New 

 Hampshire, have plans for a nnrsery which 

 will enable them to plant five trees for 

 every one they cut. This should point the 

 way to other American companies whose 

 pulpwood supplies are running low. 



Mr. A. D. Otty has been engaged as For- 

 ester by the reorganized Dryden Pulp and 

 Paper Company of Dryden, Ontario. 



The meeting of the Pacific Logging Con- 

 gress was held this year in Vancouver, Oc- 

 tober 6, 7, 8 and 9th. 



Lord Glentanar, of Glen Tanar, Aber- 

 deenshire, Scotland, was recently in Can- 

 ada. He owns a large forest property and 

 has the misfortune to have had the only dis- 

 astrous forest fire in Scotland for nearly 

 one hundred years. Twelve hundred acres 

 of forest were burnt. The fire was prob- 

 ably caused by carelessness and burnt for 

 a long time, owing to the character of the 

 soil. Before returning to Scotland, Lord 

 Glentanar purchased a gasoline forest fire 

 pump and hose for use in case of emer- 

 gencies. 



Professor Leslie, of Aberdeen Univer- 

 sity, Scotland, is at present studying fores- 

 try conditions in Canada, and gives the 

 following account of the planting activities 

 of the British Forestry Commission along 

 nursery lines in that section. In the Craib- 

 stone, about five miles from Aberdeen, :r. 

 1918, 800,000 seedlings were grown and 

 planted out in areas acquired by the Com- 

 mission. In 1919, 2,000,000 seedlings were 

 lifted and transplanted. Last spring, 2,000,- 

 000 seedlings were transplanted. These 

 were mostly Scots Pine, larch and Sitka 

 spruce. In the spring of 1919, extensive 

 sowings were made in the Improvement 



