<iO(i AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The owners of summer homes and other uses something over fourteen 



camps to the north of Montreal in the miles of line this season. 

 Laurentian Mountains had a meeting 



and took steps to form an Association The St. Maurice Forest Protective 



to protect their holdings. The leader Association, with the cooperation and 



of this movement is Mr. R. A. Outhet, financial assistance of the Department 



landscape architect of Montreal, and the o f Lands and Forests and the Depart- 



members are prominent Montrealers. merit of Public Instruction of the Prov- 



One of the most enthusiastic members ince of Quebec, is issuing in French and 



is Mr. Guy Tombs, general passenger English a folder, printed in red and 



agent of the Canadian Northern Rail- black with cuts, for distribution among 



way, which has also improved its sys- school children. These folders are, 



tern of fire protection along its lines this with few changes in the text, the same 



season. as those already used in Pennsylvania 



and Masachusetts. 



Snow fell to the depth of five inches 



about one hundred miles north of Mont- The Premier of the Province of Que- 



real on the nineteenth of June. b ec, Sir Lomer Gouin, with Mr. G. C. 



Piche, Chief of the Forest Service, have 



ihe Laurentide Co., Ltd., has en- just returned from a trip to the Abitibi 



tered upon a tree-planting program region, which is being opened for set- 



which allows for planting of 500,000 tlement. The report of their trip from 



trees per year. A beginning on a com- the standpoint of the forest resources 



mercial scale was made this spring by o f this district is awaited with interest. 



planting 110,000 Norway spruce, which, _ 

 up to present writing, have done re- 



, 



markably well. In 1UOS this company __ Mr - R ^ J- Campbell has succeeded 



began planting, about 20 acres being Mr R " pv, McInt // e as edlt ?r ot ^ 



planted to white Scotch and jack pine. ! T ul P and f a P er Magazine of Canada. 



These trees are now from four to eight Mr. Campbell is_a forestry graduate 



feet high. In 1912, 10,000 Scotch pine from the University of Toronto. 

 were planted, and in li)13 about 12,000 



Norway and white spruce ; 10,000 Nor- The Forest Products Laboratory, in 



way pine and 50,000 Norway spruce connection with McGill University, will 



will be planted in September. There begin active work in the fall. A coin- 



are now in the company's nursery some- plete experimental outfit for the grind- 



thing over .")00,000 seedlings which will ing of pulp, making of sulphite pulp 



be ready for next fall, and the capacity and of paper is being installed. The 



will be kept at about 600,000 per annum, work will be in charge of Mr. Bates, 



This company has also added to its who has had much experience along 



telephone lines for fire protection and these lines. 



A BEQUEST OF $5,000.00 



THE will of the late Miss Eliza- servation throughout the country, and 



beth Shippen, of Philadelphia, the bequest was made by Miss Shippen, 



bequeaths to the American For- for many years a member of the Asso- 



estry Association the sum of ciation, in recognition of the excellent 



$5,000. This money is given to work it is doing, and the great need of 



aid in carrying on the general work of expanding the influence and extending 



the Association in spreading the doc- the activities of the association, 

 trine of sane an 1 practical forest con- 



