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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



overbalanced by the fact that the brush 

 covered more ground and so hindered re- 

 production. It is doubtful if top-lopping 

 pays either from the standpoint of fire pro- 

 tection or that of reproduction, and it 

 seems as if piling and burning was the 

 only solution of the problem. 



On the 24th of August, Mr. F. Laliberte, 

 manager of the firm of Laliberte & Mar- 

 quis, died in Quebec after an operation for 

 appendicitis. Mr. Laliberte was a graduate 

 of the Laval Forest School and worked 

 from 1912 to 1913 with the Quebec Forest 

 Service, which he left to organize the 

 above firm, which carried on the business 

 of forest engineering and also handled 

 timber, recently shipping poplar to Soutn 

 Africa. He was only 28 years of age and 

 shf)wed much promise. 



Mr. Henri Roy, graduate of the Laval 

 Forest School and for some years in charge 

 of the Quebec Government Nursery at 

 Berthierville and now Forest Agent, has 

 been elected an active member of the Cana- 

 dian Society of Forest Engineers. Mr. E. 

 S. HoUoway, Acting Chief Engineer of the 

 Canada and Gulf Terminal Railway and 

 Member of the Canadian Society of Civil 

 Engineers, has been elected an associate 

 member. 



Mr. R. L. Campbell has resigned the 

 editorship of the Pulp and Paper Magazine 

 of Canada to become the Secretary of the 

 Canadian Pulp and Paper Association. 



A farmer at Lac Ignace, Quebec, was 

 arrested for setting fire to his clearing 

 without a permit and fined ten dollars and 

 costs, amounting to $100.00 in all. This is 

 the second conviction for such an offense 

 before a magistrate and shows that the 

 justices of the peace have awakened to the 

 necessity of enforcing the forest fire laws. 

 Eight or ten other arrests have been 

 made, and it will not be long before the 

 farmers realize the necessity of care. 

 Agents of the Government and of the For- 

 est Protective Associations are traveling 

 through the country trying to educate the 

 people and enlighten them as to their re- 

 sponsibilities, and arrests are only made 

 of flagrant cases. 



According to the annual report of the 

 Dominion Forestry Director, the herd of 

 fifty reindeer purchased by the Government 

 from Dr. Grenfell has now been reduced 

 to four animals, all females, and it is pro- 

 posed to try and cross these with the na- 

 tive caribou. The great difficulty has been 

 with the bulldog flies in the summer. These 

 attack the deer and irritate them to such 

 an extent that they break out of their 

 corral and scatter into the bush. The 

 herds of wood bison, on the other hand. 

 seem to be increasing and now number 

 probably five hundred head. They are well 

 protected and should increase rapidly. 



In the Forest Reserves in Saskatchewan 

 the Government has required brush piling 

 and burning on all timber sales, and while 

 there was a little opposition at first, this 

 was soon overcome and now it is a regular 

 procedure. Mr. Gutches, lately in charge 

 of this work, gives the following figures 

 of costs : With wages at 25 cents per hour 

 the average cost per acre was $1.00, average 

 cost per cord five cents, average cost per 

 thousand feet board measure ten cents. 

 On another operation, where 16,178 ties 

 were made but the lopping was not done 

 till after all the ties had been removed, 

 the cost for lopi^ing and burning was one 

 cent per tie or 31 cents per thousand feet. 

 This cost would have been much less had 

 the lopping and burning been done at the 

 time of cutting. Brush burning should rer- 

 tainly be made a routine part of every log- 

 ging operation. 



ticnal tonnage can be secured activity in 

 the pulp industry should be still more pro- 

 nounced. 



The first number of the first forestry 

 journal published in Spain has just ap- 

 peared, under the title of Espana Forcstal. 

 It is edited by Sr. Don R. Cordoniu and 

 published monthly at fifteen pesatas the 

 year. Sr. Cordoniu is a member of the 

 Spanish Forestry Association, The Royal 

 Spanish Society of the Friends of the 

 Tree, and has been for many years in 

 charge of the control of torrents and re- 

 forestation of the mountains and planting 

 to control sand dunes. He is also a noted 

 Esperantist. 



British Columbia Notes 



Maps showing the range of each com- 

 mercial timber species in the Province 

 have been completed. Necessary informa- 

 tion for these maps was obtained from 

 reconnaissance parties, cruisers and other 

 members of the field force. While minor 

 corrections will undoubtedly have to be 

 made from time to time as a result of fu- 

 ture and more detailed observations, it is 

 thought that the general range of the vari- 

 ouj- species has been fixed with a fair de- 

 giee of accuracy. 



The Hon. W. R. Ross, Minister of Lands, 

 in a recent interview expressed great sat- 

 isfaction at the result of three months' 

 work in connection with the markets cam- 

 paign, in the course of which seven cargoes, 

 representing over twenty million feet of 

 lumber, have been sold to the British Gov- 

 ernment. This will have been the means 

 of circulating a sum in the neighborhood 

 of a quarter of a million dollars, the bulk 

 of which is made up of wages, supplies 

 and transportation and has caused much 

 activity in the lumber industry. 



The pulp mills at Powell River have re- 

 cently increased their output to the maxi- 

 mum capacity, and two hundred extra men 

 have been taken on in consequence. With 

 the prospect of an early resumption of 

 work at Ocean Falls, the pulp output will 

 h-; further increased, and as soon as addi- 



-A. chart has been prepared in the Vic- 

 toria office for use at headquarters, show- 

 ing the daily maximum and minimum tem- 

 peratures reported by each weather record- 

 ing station, by means of horizontal curves, 

 and the rainfall by perpendicular propor- 

 tional lines. The Dominion Meteorological 

 Service furnishes daily reports for this 

 purpose in addition to giving special fore- 

 ca.^ts whenever the fire hazard becomes 

 serious. Such a chart is of the utmost 

 value m enabling close touch to be kept 

 with the fire situation throughout the Prov- 

 ince and is a useful addition to the weekly 

 telegraphic advices sent in by the District 

 foresters. 



Rangers M. V. Allen and F. B. Edwards, 

 of the Canadian Mounted Rifles, are at 



Shorncliffe. 



The end of the first week in August 

 found the fire situation very hopeful. There 

 had been no losses to speak of in green 

 timber and the fire-fighting expenditure 

 compared favorably with last year. The 

 rainfall throughout the season has been 

 abcve the normal and some rain may be 

 looked for during August, which is the 

 critical month of the year. In some dis- 

 tricts the absence of hazards enabled much 

 improvement work to be undertaken by 

 the forest wardens. Storms and slash fires 

 caused serious damage to the 65-mile tele- 

 phone line connecting the logging camps 

 or the islands between the mainland and 

 Vancouver Island and necessitated heavy 

 repairs. The submarine cables on th5s Hne 

 Ir.we given entirely satisfactory service and 

 :he line fulfils a most useful purpose. Nu- 

 merous outbreaks of fire during the second 

 week in August gave considerable trouble 

 in the Vancouver district, which takes in 

 much of the coast, and much damage was 

 caused to property. The fires were due to 

 lighting in many cases and many were 

 ascribed to campers. One life was lost and 

 much property destroyed. 



V. K. Wood, clerk, who left Victoria 

 with the 48th Batt., is at Shorncliffe. 



Forest Assistant O. J. Sangar, of the 

 Lillooet Division, has volunteered for ac- 

 tive service and hopes to leave for England 

 with his battalion. 



Forest .Assistant E. G. MacDougall has 

 left for England with one of the Eastern 

 Canadian regiments, preferring to go in 

 the ranks rather than wait for a commis- 

 sion. 



H. R. MacMillan, Special Trade Com- 

 missioner, after visiting the United King- 

 dom, France and Italy, is on his way to 

 South Africa. 



