[Photo by N. M. Ross 

 Sowing tree seed at Forest Nursery Station, Indian Headi Sask. 



Trees from 

 Indian Head. 



Fully two and a half 

 million trees were sent 

 out this spring from 

 the Forestry Nursery Station at Indian 

 Head in the course of the usual spring 

 distribution. The total number of 

 names on the inspectors' lists this year 

 is 5,723, as compared with 3,948 last 

 year. Of this 5,723, the number of 

 new applicants this year is 2,298. 



Forest The above is the title 



Products of given to Bulletin No. 

 Canada. 4 of the Forestry 



Branch of the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior. Mr. A. H. D. 

 Ross, M.A., M.F., lecturer in forestry 

 at the University of Toronto, is the 

 author. His task has been to collect 

 all available statistics on lumber pro- 

 duction and use, showing what is being 

 done (and, by inference, what is ne- 

 glected) in the way of collecting infor- 



mation on these subjects by the federal 

 and provincial governments of the 

 Dominion. Figures are given for the 

 exports, imports and forest production 

 of the Dominion and for the area of the 

 forest reserves under the control of 

 the Dominion and the different prov- 

 inces. Figures are also given, as far 

 as available, for the different provinces 

 with respect to their timber prodviction, 

 their export trade, and their chief wood- 

 working industries. Mr. Ross's work 

 is the first attempt that has been made 

 in Canada in the special line of forest 

 statistics. The author has done his 

 work well, but the unavoidable in- 

 completeness of the book, conti^asted 

 with the complete returns furnished by 

 the Forest Service and Census Bureau 

 of the United States, goes to show the 

 need of work in collecting and tabulat- 

 ing this information, a work which is 

 now being undertaken by the Forestry 

 Branch. 



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