NOTES. 



A meeting of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association was held in Ottawa, on the 16th, 17th and 18th 

 August. The Convention was more in the nature of a pleasure 

 trip than a business meeting. The two chief questions dis- 

 cussed were insurance and car equipment. On the latter it 

 was decided that joint action should be taken to compel the 

 railway companies to furnish proper equipment as for other in- 

 dustries and shippers. In shipping, the lumbermen have to con- 

 struct their own racks and stakes on flat cars, such costing about 

 $6 per car, while no allowance is made in freight rates to offset 

 this expenditure. 



The meeting was addressed by Mr. E. Stewart, Dominion 

 Superintendent of Forestry, who spoke on the question of the 

 management of pine limits such as are found in Ontario. He 

 urged the desirability of preserving the small timber and of a 

 careful examination and survey of limits to ascertain their con- 

 dition in respect to the stand and new growth. He concluded 

 as follows: — 



Considering all these facts, it seems to me certain that not 

 the least valuablepart of many limits is the younger growth, which 

 at present, as I have endeavored to show clearly, does not pay 

 the cost of cutting, and that the owners of timber, especiallv of 

 white pine, would only be acting with the foresight they show 

 in other matters connected with their business if they gave 

 greater attention to this matter than heretofore. The time has 

 arrived when the man who directs the lumbermen's operations 

 in the woods should have, in addition to his practical knowledge 

 of how to cut and take out logs to the best advantage, also 

 some knowledge of the tree itself; the manner or rate of its 

 growth and how to cut other timber so as to foster that growth. 

 In other words he should be a forester, as well as a practical log 

 man, and it is fortunate that many young men, most of whom 

 have been brought up in our rural districts, are now studying 

 forestry in the colleges of the United States and spending their 

 vacations in our lumber woods, sttxdying the practical part of 

 the business; and I would strongly ad^-ise our lumbermen to 

 avail themselves of the services of these young men, rather than 

 import professionals from Europe, who are necessarily less fami- 

 liar with conditions. 



