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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



FORESTERS ATTENTION 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will gladly print free 

 of charge in this column advertisements of for- 

 esters, lumbermen and woodsmen, discharged or 

 about to be discharged from military service, who 

 want positions, or of persons having employment 

 to offer such foresters, lumbermen or woodsmen. 



POSITION wanted by technically trained Fur- 

 ester; college graduate, 37 years of age and 

 married. Have had seven years* experience in 

 the National Forests of Oregon, California, 

 Washington and Alaska. Also some European 

 training. At present employed on timber sur- 

 veys as chief of party in the Forest Service. 

 Desire to make a change and will be glad to 

 consider position as Forester on private estate, 

 or as city Forester. Will also consider position 

 as Asst. Superintendent of State Park and 

 Game Preserve in addition to that of Forester. 

 Can furnish the best of references. Address 

 Box 820, care American Forestry Magazine, 

 Washington, D. C. 



ARBORICULTURIST is open to an engagement 

 to take charge of, or as assistant in City For- 

 estry work. Experience and training, ten years, 

 covering the entire arboricultural field — from 

 planting to expert tree surgery — including nur- 

 sery practice, and supervision in the care and 

 detailed management of city shade trees. For 

 further information, address Box 700, care of 

 American Forestry. 



An Opening For One Hundred 

 Foresters 



The position is that of Division Firewarden; 

 the territory is approximately one-third of the 

 State of New Jersey ; the work is general 

 administration of all forest fire matters 

 together with attendance at large fires, in- 

 vestigation of the causes of fires, supervision 

 of the personnel of the local firewarden ser- 

 vice, about one hundred men, and responsi- 

 bility for the publicity and propaganda fire 

 prevention work in the territory. The com- 



Sensation is $1,200 to start, with every likeli- 

 ood of increase shortly, the qualifications are 

 that a man shall be a graduate oi some repu- 

 table technical forestry school. The reason 

 for requiring technical trailing is that ad- 

 vancement may be either in the forest fire 

 work or in the technical forestry activities of 

 the Department and in addition the incumbent 

 is called on during the slacker season for for- 

 est fire work, to do technical and propaganda 

 forestry work in his territory. Apply Box 830, 

 care American Forestry, Washington, D. C. 



POSITION wanted by technically trained For- 

 ester. Have had fourteen years experience 

 along forestry lines, over five years on the 

 National Forests in timber sale, silviculturat 

 and administrative work; three years experi- 

 ence in city forestry, tree surgery and landscape 

 work. Forester for the North Shore Park Dis 

 trict of Chicago. City forestry and landscape 

 work preferred, but will be glad to consider 

 other fines. Can furnish the best of reference 

 Address Box 600, Care American Forestry 

 Magazine, Washington, D. C. (1-3) 



YOUNG MAN recently discharged from the U. S. 

 Navy, wants employment with wholesale lum- 

 ber manufacturer; college graduate; five year's 

 experience in nursery business; can furnish 

 best of references. Address Box 875, Care 

 American Forestry Magazine, Washington, 

 D. C. (1-3) 



Man to De discharged Irom tne nrmy SeptemDer 

 30th desires position in torestry work, with lum- 

 ber or railroad company or assisting in investi- 

 gations of utilization of wood products. Would 

 accept position in other work. Is married man, 

 graduate of Michigan Agricultural College, 1913 

 Has had experience in orchard work, clearing 

 land, improvement cuttings, planting and care of 

 nursery, pine and hardwood transplants, orchards 

 and larger trees, grading and construction of 

 gravel roads, and other improvement work. Has 

 executive ability and gets good results from men. 

 Please address Box 880, care of American 

 Forestry Magazine, Washington, D. C. (9-11) 



FORESTER wanted as Division Firewarden in 

 New Jersey. Must have professional training 

 and some experience. Salary $100 to $120. Eligi- 

 ble for promotion to Assistant Forester. Civil 

 Service examination can be taken after pro- 

 visional appointment or by mail. Box S10, care 

 American Forestry Magazine, Washington, D. C. 



WANTED — Position as Forester and Land Agent. 

 Technically trained forester, 36 years old. 

 Practical experience along all lines included 

 under the duties of fhe above positions. For- 

 mer Captain, Field Artillery. Address Box 810, 

 care American Forestry, Washington, D. C. 



WANTED — Position with Lumber Company or 

 Private Concern by technically trained Forester 

 with five years practical experience. Box 820, 

 care American Forestry. 



CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



BY ELLWOOD WILSON 



PRESIDENT, CANADIAN SOCIETY OF FOREST ENGINEERS 



HPHE Hon. Jules Allard, for ten years 

 Minister of Lands and Forests of Que- 

 bec, has resigned. Mr. Allard has been 

 Ministerlongerthan any of his predecessors 

 and during his term of office more progress 

 has been made than in the whole previous 

 history of the Department. The revenues 

 from Government Lands have been materi- 

 ally increased, one of the most efficient fire 

 protective systems on the continent put in 

 operation, buying of lands by timber specu- 

 lators has almost wholly been eliminated, 

 improvements have been made in cutting 

 regulations and much important forestry 

 legislation been enacted. Mr. Allard is 

 a man of broad views and deep interest 

 in the progress and welfare of his country 

 and his Province and everyone is sorry to 

 have him relinquish his office. He remains, 

 however, a member of the Legislative 

 Council and will continue to use his influ- 

 ence and interest for the welfare and im- 

 provement of the Crown Forests. 



Mr. Allard has been succeeded by the 

 Hon. Mr. Mercier, for some time Minister 

 of Colonization, which Department he has 

 successfully conducted. He brings to his 

 new office a wide knowledge of the Prov- 

 ince from actual experience as he has 

 traveled all over it and has seen the forest 

 at first hand on many a hunting and canoe- 

 ing trip. He is a man of energy and broad 

 views and will take up and worthily carry 

 on the work started by the Hon. Mr. Tur- 

 geon and carried on by the Hon. Jules 

 Allard so successfully. 



Mr. Piche, the Chief Forester, has had 

 several parties in the woods this summer 

 making studies of the quantities of timber 

 in various districts, rates of growth, con- 

 ditions on cut-over areas, prevalence of 

 various insect pests and fungous diseases 

 and so forth. Mr. Piche has done much 

 valuable work since he became Chief For- 

 ester and it is hoped that he will soon let 

 his confreres have the benefit of his re- 

 searches through the medium of bulletins 

 from his Department. 



Mr. Clyde Leavitt, Forester of the Com- 

 mission of Conservation, underwent a seri- 

 ous operation early in the summer but is 

 now back at his desk again much improved 

 in health. 



The researches of the Commission of 

 Conservation in cooperation with the Laur- 

 entide, Abittibi and Riordan Pulp and 

 Paper Companies have been making good 

 progress during the summer. New sample 

 plots and subplots have been laid out, 



those on the Laurentide Company's Limits 

 now totaling 13 acres. Here a substantial 

 camp has been built with facilities for all 

 sorts of research work. Studies of rate3 

 of growth, meteorological conditions, rates 

 of evaporation, insects and fungous 

 diseases have been carried on. It 

 has been found, for instance, that the daily- 

 rate of growth of trees is proportional to 

 the temperature. The borer which is caus- 

 ing the death of the white birch has been 

 thoroughly studied. Areas which have been 

 burnt are being studied under different con- 

 ditions to see which trees seed in first on 

 them and why. Different methods of cut- 

 ting are being tried on a small scale. 



Contracts have also been made with the 

 Logging Departments of the Laurentide, 

 Abittibi and Bathurst Lumber Companies 

 to cut sample areas of about 200 acres 

 according to forestry methods, careful rec- 

 ords being kept of the conditions before and 

 after cutting, the cost of logging, brush 

 burning and utilization of smaller sizes of 

 wood and so forth. 



Although there have been many difficul- 

 ties to be overcome, chiefly the late start 

 at the beginning of the season, the seaplane 

 patrol of the St. Maurice Forest Protective 

 Association has been carried on with a fair 

 measure of success and the practicability 

 of the work demonstrated beyond any 

 doubt. The planes have flown all over the 

 territory of 16,000 square miles without any 

 difficulty whatever. Fires have been dis- 

 covered, explorers for one of the constitu- 

 ent companies have been taken over the 

 territory they wished to see, reports of the 

 burnt-over and timber conditions have been 

 made, etc. The planes have proved to be 

 too large for gasoline economy as they use 

 HO gallons per hour. The ideal installation 

 would be two smaller machines for patrol 

 purposes and a large machine to carry to 

 the scene of a fire a portable gasoline pump 

 and hose, tools and three men. The exper- 

 iment will probably be continued next sea- 

 son under the auspices of the newly created 

 Air Board. The rest of the season will be 

 spent in photographic work for making 

 maps. 



The fire season has been the worst in 

 Eastern Canada for several years, owing 

 to long continued dry weather. Few fires 

 were reported from New Brunswick, Que- 

 bec suffered a little more than in the pre- 

 vious year and the losses in Ontario were 

 very large. 'The problem of settlers start- 

 ing clearing fires in Northern Ontario will 



