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get the poles out and they promised to do so. I will go down 

 again soon and bum it." 



The Reserves as Pleasure Resorts. 



There are many beautiful lakes on the forest reserves and 

 some of these are being now freely used as summer resorts. It 

 seems to me that this should be encouraged. The campers are 

 not a menace to the forest, in fact they are a protection, as they 

 have personal interest in guarding the forest against fire. Besides, 

 with campers on the lakes when a fire occurs there are people at 

 hand to help to extinguish it. Therefore, the Department has 

 under consideration the advisability of renting camp sites on 

 the shores of these lakes, the leases to be made out for ten years, 

 renewable at the discretion of the Superintendent of Forestry 

 and cancellable at anv time for any misuse or menace to the 

 forest reser\^e. 



The University of New Brunswick Forestrv Department 

 has issued an eight page pamphlet entitled "Forestry: the new 

 Profession." The training required for forestry work and the 

 opportunities afforded in government emplov, work with 

 private companies, teaching and other hnes are described at 

 length. 



The West Northumberland (Ont.) Farmers' Institute at 

 a late meeting made a formal request of the Provincial Govern- 

 ment for the establishment of a forest reser\^e in that riding. 



The properties of the Alfred Dickie Lumber Company in 

 Nova Scotia have been disposed of to an English syndicate. 

 The properties include 405,000 acres of timberlands and eight 

 mills. The price paid was $1,567,500. 



The Committee on Forestry of the Ontario Experimental 

 Union for 1909 is composed of Messrs. E. J. Zavitz, Director- 

 H. R. MacMillan and E. C. Drury. Mr. E. J. Zavitz is also a 

 member of the Schools Committee, representing the forestry- 

 interest. 



During 1908 some 55,000 cords of pulp wood were shipped 

 from Chatham, N.B., to Rumford Falls. Me., and 15,000 cords 

 from the lower Androscoggin river to Bath, Me. 



