1904 



FOREvSTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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its fisheries. That the country is keenly 

 alive to the need of looking after its for- 

 ests is shown by a carefully prepared 

 series of forest maps and a number of 

 charts, all on German models,- giving 

 graphic information concerning the area, 

 value, yield, etc., of the forest interests 

 of the nation. A large number of fine 

 specimens of commercial woods is also 

 shown ; each is carefully labeled with 

 the scientific as well as the local names. 

 In going over these samples one is struck 

 with the considerable number of clear, 

 soft, easy-working woods. If Japan 

 were prepared to export these, she 

 would have no difficulty in finding a 

 market for them, but it is said that the 

 available quantity of none is great. 



can be taken down, may serve to put up 

 a hundred buildings. A separate ex- 

 hibit in the French section shows a fine 

 collection of willow basket ware. It 

 would be interesting to see more of this 

 work, since an effort is now making to 

 extend the industry in this country; 

 but, so far as I know, this exhibit is the 

 only one at the Fair. 



Great Britain exhibits no forestry to 

 speak of. A few photographs are in- 

 teresting in showing the kind of timber 

 that is esteemed there, and we who in- 

 sist on clear, straight, white oak may 

 learn something from the taste of the 

 English that will profit our forests. 



Canada. The great rustic arch, which 

 forms the chief feature of the Canadian 



FOREST, FISH, AND GAME BUILDING, LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 



Perhaps the most interesting feature of 

 the whole exhibit is a collection of bam- 

 boos clear, straight, beautiful speci- 

 mens from the little knotty ones that 

 are used for switch canes to poles 6 

 inches in diameter and 40 feet long. 



France makes only a small forestry 

 exhibit ; there are some fine specimens of 

 cabinet woods, none of them native, and 

 an interesting demonstration of quarter 

 sawing on several sections of oak logs, 

 but nothing of the French silviculture or 

 forest management that one would like 

 to see. A model of a city building with 

 pole scaffolding such as is universally 

 used in Europe presents a striking con- 

 trast between their and our ways of using 

 wood. Such a scaffolding, the pieces 

 all lashed, not nailed, together so that it 



exhibit, is an attractive piece of work ; 

 yet one wonders what it is for. . The 

 legend that it bears in letters of gold 



OVER THREE THOUSAND 



VARIETIES OF WOOD 

 USED IN THIS RUSTIC WORK : 

 ALL GROWN IN CANADA 



is false of course, and the statement is 

 but little bettered when it is explained 

 that most of the pieces are from fruit- 

 tree stock, every nurseryman's variety 

 counting one. The exhibit is really 

 valuable in giving information relative 

 to the Dominion's forest industries, the 

 location and character of its timber 

 lands, etc. These are set forth on 

 placards and in an attractive booklet. 

 In a separate building nearby are shown 



