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couple of operations was burned broad- 

 cast last spring. On tie permits the 

 brush was piled but has not yet been 

 burned. An interesting sequence is the 

 keen interest taken by the settlers in 

 brush disposal and they are now requir- 

 ing almost all operators on their lands 

 to pile the brush. This will be a great 

 help in the future fire situation." 



Professor Adam Shortt, commissioner 

 for the Civil Service Commission of 

 Canada, has just returned from an 

 investigating trip to England where he 

 made a careful study of the English 

 system. He reports civil service quite 

 practical and it is to be hoped that 

 the Dominion Government will now 

 extend it to the outside service of the 

 Forestry Branch. The Dominion Gov- 

 ernments might with benefit study this 

 report. 



This season sees thirty-one students 

 in the undergraduate classes at the 

 Laval Forest school in Quebec. Of the 

 27 graduates all are employed. Eigh- 

 teen are in the employ of the Province 

 of Quebec and nine are with other 

 Governments or in private companies. 

 It is proposed to have an advisory 

 committee of three members of the 

 Quebec Limit Holder's Association to 

 help direct the energies of the school. 



The death of Dr. William Saunders, 

 C. M. G., LL. D., F. R. S. C., for 25 

 years Director of Dominion Experi- 

 mental Farms, will be a great loss to 

 Canada. He was founder and President 

 for several years of the Ontario Entomo- 

 logical Society and for thirteen years 

 edited the Canadian Entomologist. 

 Under him the Government established 

 five experimental farms. His work in 

 cereal development and in the improve- 

 ment of plums and other native fruits 

 of western Canada was of great value, 

 and to these farms the success of wheat 

 growing in the west was in large measure 

 due. The arboretum and forest belts at 

 the Central Experimental Farm, Ot- 

 tawa, the plantations at Brandon, 

 Manitoba, and Indian Head, Saskat- 

 chewan, have been a source of inspira- 

 tion and information in farm forestry 

 and the western plantings were the 



forerunners of the system of free dis- 

 tribution of trees to farmers for planting 

 around their homesteads, which has 

 now grown to such immense proportions 

 under the Dominion Forestry Branch. 



Mr. J. B. White, Woods Manager 

 for the Riordan Pulp and Paper Com- 

 pany, has been appointed a member of 

 the Forestry Committee of the American 

 National Wholesale Lumber Dealers 

 Association. 



Mr. Ellwood Wilson, Forester for the 

 Laurentide Co., Ltd., has been appointed 

 a member of the Standing Committee 

 on Forest Protection of the American 

 Forestry Association. 



One of the forestry projects upon 

 which the Commission of Conservation 

 is engaged is a survey of the forest 

 resources of British Columbia. This 

 work was started last year and it is 

 hoped that a fairly definite idea of the 

 forest resources of the province will 

 have been secured by the end of next 

 year. For this work, the Commission 

 has secured the services of Dr. H. N. 

 Whitford, formerly of the Philippine 

 Forest Service, and of R. D. Craig, for 

 some years with the Dominion Forestry 

 Branch, and later engaged in private 

 forestry work in British Columbia. 

 The plan of work is to collect, check 

 and compile all available information. 

 A large percentage of the accessible 

 merchantable timber of the province is 

 held under timber limits, and for most 

 of these limits, one or more cruises have 

 been made. The limit holders are co- 

 operating generously with the Commis- 

 sion by furnishing information relative 

 to the amount of timber on the individ- 

 ual limits. In addition a large amount 

 of detailed information has been secured 

 through forest surveys conducted by 

 the Provincial Forest Branch, and by 

 the Forestry Branch of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway. All this information 

 is being used by Messrs. Whitford and 

 Craig, and is supplemented by informa- 

 tion collected at first hand, as well as 

 by data secured from timber cruisers, 

 surveyors, explorers and others. Previ- 

 ous estimates indicate that there is 

 something like 300 billion feet of saw 



