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permit, and that they will do this even more than our Govern- 

 ments because the people are indifEerent about conservation. 

 Our pulp and paper industry is now carefully studying 

 forestry and has already applied more conservative methods, 

 and a good many firms will soon have adopted thorough 

 going systems and will be applying them as far as the regula- 

 tions will permit and where they are sure of retaining their 

 timber. The Canadian Pulp and Paper Manufacturers think 

 that the exportation of pulp wood fosters a careless use of 

 the forests and that Canada has not enough pulp wood to 

 afford this and that the Government should find out what 

 we have and adopt a well-founded policy rather than let 

 matters drift, as at present." 



Speaking at greater length in regard to the management by 

 the paper companies of their woodlands, he said: In Canada 

 there has been almost a revolution in the last few years among 

 the pulp and paper firms operating timber lim.its, in the direction 

 of conservation. We are all taking a much greater quantity of 

 timber per tree ; taking the tops down to four inches diameter 

 under the bark, and taking dry trees, dosy butts, and bark- 

 rotted logs. We are limiting our cuts to annual growth where 

 possible. We have evolved fire patrol systems that have prevent- 

 ed serious fires in our timber. The Laurentide Paper Co., the 

 Union Bag & Paper Co., and the Riordon Paper Mills, are all 

 employing trained foresters and spending considerable money in 

 thoroughly investigating their timber resources and everything 

 to do with their development, and in studying timber growth and 

 methods of manufacturing logs. They are inaugurating the 

 policy of marking the trees that shall be cut, and are adopting 

 rules for jobbers and foremen that are eliminating the waste of 

 anything they can possibly use. This means making use of a 

 great deal more of the product of the forest than any other 

 industry does. 



Mr. Riordon thought that present Government regulations 

 in Quebec rather discouraged the putting in operation of thorough 

 systems of forest management. He complained especially of 

 timber thieving under pretence of settlement, also of the restric- 

 tions as to diameter limit. In regard to the former he stated that, 

 out of 7,000,000 acres granted to settlers in recent years in 

 Quebec, 2,000,000 acres were already stripped and abandoned. 



Conditions in Quebec. 



The last paper of the afternoon was given by Mr. Ellwood 

 Wilson, Forester of the Laurentide Paper Co., of Grand Mere, 

 P.Q., and was entitled "Lumbering in Northern Quebec." 

 North of the St. Lawrence, Mr. Wilson said, the province was 

 essentially forest land. Natural reproduction was good on cut 



