CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



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A Valuable Study 



During the months of July and August 

 the New York State College of Forestry 

 at Syracuse University studied the forest 

 growth and local wood market conditions 

 in Broome County, New York. This work 

 was done in the towns of Maine, Union 

 and Vestal by Harold M. Day, a graduate 

 student in the College of Forestry. Mr. 

 Day estimated the amount of cordwood 

 in each woodlot and mapped all areas 

 down to 10 acres in extent on carefully 

 prepared maps. At the same titge Mr. 

 Day made a comprehensive study of the 

 portable milling industry in this section. 

 This data will be written up in form of a 

 report and with this information at hand 

 in bulletin form the marketing of forest 

 products will be a much simpler matter 

 than it is today. 



A 750,000 Acre Elimination 



The President, on recommendation of 

 Secretary Lane, recently eliminated about 

 750,000 acres of land from the Cleveland 

 National Forest. California. The unwith- 

 drawn lands will be subject to settlement 

 only under the homestead laws beginning 

 9 a .m., November 2, until and including 

 November 29, 1915, after which they will 

 be subject to be taken up under the laws 

 applicable thereto. The lands, which are 

 rolling in character and covered mainly 

 with chaparral, lie along the boundaries 

 of the National Forest in Riverside and 

 San Diego Counties in southern California, 

 within the Los Angeles land district, and 

 about 333,000 acres thereof are public lands 

 and subject to entry. 



The Longleal Pine Picture 



Acknowledgment is made to The South- 

 ern Lumberman, of Nashville, Tenn., for 

 the privilege of using the photograph of 

 the longleaf yellow pine stand from which 

 the handsome colored picture on the 

 cover of the September A.merican Fores- 

 try was made. This photograph was se- 

 lected for coloring from a large number. 

 being considered one of the finest photo- 

 graphs of a yellow pine stand in existence. 



Wins a Diploma 



The New York State College of Forestry 

 at Syracuse prepared last year a small 

 exhibit showing forest conditions and 

 forest work in the State of New York for 

 the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San 

 Francisco. The college has just received 

 word that it has been awarded a diploma 

 for the educational value of its exhibits. 

 The diploma will come to the college 

 through the Bureau of Education at 

 Washington as its exhibits were judged 

 as a part of the general educational ex- 

 hibits at the Exposition. 



Canadian Department 



By Ellwood Wilson 

 Secretary, Cana,dian Society of Forest Engineers 



Probably the most important move along 

 forestry lines in Canada during the past 

 month has been the decision of the Gov- 

 ernment of the Province of New Bruns- 

 wick to appoint a Provincial Forester and 

 to commence a forest survey and estimate 

 of the resources of that Province. This 

 Province has hitherto been behind the times 

 in this most important particular and the 

 change in poHcy will be warmly welcomed 

 by all friends of conservation. There are 

 about eight million acres of forest lands 

 held by the Government and lumbering is 

 one of the most important industries of the 

 Province. Although Immense quantities of 

 timber have been destroyed by fire, there is 

 still enough, if properly cared for, to give 

 the lumber industry a firm foundation for 

 all time. 



There is practically no accurate knowl- 

 edge of areas burnt, of barren land or of 

 merchantable timber, and the last Legis- 

 lature voted the sum of $50,000 to be spent 

 thi.= year in getting at the facts. Lately 

 the Premier, the Hon. Mr. Clarke, and the 

 Provincial Treasurer, Dr. Landry, have 

 made a trip to Quebec and Ontario, collect- 

 ing information which would be valuable in 

 inaugurating the new poHcy and in looking 

 around for the right man for Forester. 



Classification of its lands will enable the 

 Government to open up lands for settle- 

 ment intelligently and will prevent many 

 of the disastrous mistakes made in this 

 matter by other Provinces. Later some 

 scheme of reforestation will be considered. 

 The only work now being done along that 

 line in New Brunswick is that of the Pejep- 

 scot Paper Co. at Salmon River. 



The Chief Forester of Quebec has pre- 

 pared a very comprehensive scheme for the 

 exploration of lands and their classifica- 

 tion, and forms for reports have been elab- 

 orated with much detail. 



Several of the Canadian railways have 

 equipped tank cars for fighting forest fires 

 along their rights-of-way. The Canadian 

 Pacific has two such cars at Brownsville, 

 Me., the Grand Trunk has one in the Al- 

 gonquin National Park and the National 

 Transcontinental one between Edmundston, 

 N. B., and Quebec. This latter road is con- 

 sidering equipping two more of these cars 

 for use between Quebec City and the On- 

 tario boundary, and it is hoped will be de- 

 cided on. These have a capacity of about 

 ten thousand gallons and will throw a 

 stream of water five hundred feet from the 

 track. 



was to the Quebec Government plantation 

 at Lachute, on the sand dunes, and its nur- 

 sery and experimental station at Berthier- 

 ville. About fifty years ago the careless 

 handling of sandy lands by farmers allowed 

 the sands to begin to drift and in a few 

 years such a large area was covered and 

 rendered unfit for cultivation. Spasmodic 

 efforts were made by the farmers to pre- 

 vent the spread of the sands by planting 

 trees and sowing different kinds of grass, 

 but as there was no co-operation and no 

 comprehensive scheme the effort was abor- 

 tive. A few years ago the Quebec Govern- 

 ment recognized the danger and bought up 

 about 350 acres of these lands at one 

 dollar per acre, giving the vendors the right 

 to buy back the lands at the end of fifteen 

 years at $10 per acre, but with no right 

 to cut the timber. The neighborhood is 

 exceptionally favorable for tree growth of 

 all kinds, as, although the soil is pure sand, 

 tlie water table is high and there seems to 

 he abundant moisture. Four years ago the 

 plantations were commenced, several sorts 

 of trees being used, white and Norway 

 spruce, larch, white and Scotch pine, and 

 green ash. About 1,500 trees per acre were 

 planted, the work being done by the stu- 

 dents from the Government Forest School. 

 Sixty per cent of these trees have survived 

 and some show surprising growth ; one 

 spruce showed a leader thirty-one inches 

 long. After this first planting it was de- 

 cided to establish beach grass before plant- 

 ing trees, and this was done by plowing 

 furrows and laying in them heads of this 

 grass. The grass is taking a good hold and 

 trees will be planted between the rows and 

 will in time kill out the grass. These lands 

 will soon be covered with a very valuable 

 crop of timber and will encourage the 

 planting of other areas of a similar char- 

 acter which exist in the Province. 



At the Experiment Station at Berthier- 

 vill'e a mixed stand of white pine and maple 

 was examined. This stand has been care- 

 fully thinned and the reproduction of white 

 pine is really remarkable, the young trees 

 sprin^ng up almost like a carpet. The seed 

 and transplant beds of all the different 

 sorts of trees which can be grown in this 

 region are doing very well and the demand 

 for trees is rapidly growing. 



During the past month, Messrs. Clyde 

 Leavitt, G. C. Piche, Robson Black, Henry 

 Sorgius, and Ellwood Wilson made two 

 very interesting trips. The first of these 



The other trip was made into the woods 

 to look over some experiments in brush 

 disposal made by the Laurentide Company 

 some two years ago. Tops of trees left 

 after logging were lopped and left in as 

 close contact as possible with the ground, 

 and it was found that such brush was 

 moister and had more progress toward 

 decay than where the tops had not been 

 lopped. This advantage was, however, 



