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many of the members of that associa- 

 tion are members of, and deeply in- 

 terested in the work of, the Canadian 

 Forestry Association, and would like 

 to attend the meeting of the latter, but 

 find themselves prevented from doing 

 so by the time at which the Forestry 

 Association's meeting is held. 



The matter of the Association's adopt- 

 ing a crest was brought up, and Mr. 

 Joly de Lotbiniere was requested to 

 interview an artist and have a design 



for a crest prepared and submitted tc 

 the executive. 



A resolution was passed expressing, 

 on behalf of the Association, its regret 

 at the death of Hon. W. T. Pipes, At- 

 torney-General and Commissioner of 

 Crown Lands of Nova Scotia, and vice- 

 president of the Association for that 

 province. As successor to Mr. Pipes, 

 the lately-appointed Attorney-General 

 and Commissioner of Crown Lands of 

 the province, Hon. A. K. Maclean, was 

 appointed. 



The '*Odd Lengths* Campaign. 



A new movement in the direction of 

 the conservation of the supply of timber 

 has been started among Pacific Coast 

 lumbermen in the United States. A 

 very large proportion — practically all 

 of these — have entered into an agree- 

 ment to manufacture flooring, finish 

 and other similar planing mill products 

 in "odd" lengths, i.e., lengths measur- 

 ing odd numbers of feet in length. 

 Heretofore these have been manufac- 

 tured only in even lengths, such as 

 twelve feet, fourteen feet, etc. Under 

 the customary way of using even lengths 

 quite a proportion of the timber which 

 came from the shaper was wasted, huge 

 piles of such waste being a feature ofthe 

 yards of many large mills. 



The movement was launched at a 

 meeting of the National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers' Association at Seattle, Wash., 

 in July last. It is endorsed by the 

 United States Forest Service as a move 

 in the direction of the con.sevation of 

 timber resources. 



The Portland, Ore., office of the 

 Forest Service recently made an inves- 

 tigation of the actual amount of timber 

 wasted unnecessarily in restricting the 

 manufacture of such material to "even" 

 lengths and found it amounted to two 

 per cent, of the planing mill product 

 manufactured in Oregon and Washing- 

 ton from Douglas fir and other valuable 

 species. It is estimated that fifteen 

 million feet of high-priced timber can 

 be saved annually in Washington and 

 Oregon by adopting the proposal of 

 using odd lengths. This amount of 

 lumber would require the yearly growth 

 on about thirty thousand acres of 

 average timber. 



The majority of British Columbia 



lumbermen, it is said, also favor the 

 movement. 



Considerable opposition to this in- 

 novation has arisen among retailers and 

 consumers. The retailer says that it 

 is impossible for him to dispose of odd 

 length material because of the common 

 practice in the construction of wooden 

 buildings, claiming that the initial sav- 

 ing of the manufacturer is transferred 

 to the consumer. This is denied, how- 

 ever, because of the proportionally 

 small amount of odd length material 

 which will occur under the new system, 

 and because of the latter-day ]iractice 

 of laying sub-floors of rough lumber and 

 sheathing on the sides of the house be- 

 fore putting the finishing material 'n 

 place. 



NOTES. 

 No date for the proposed forestry 

 convention has yet been fixed, but it is 

 expected that this matter will be taken 

 up when the Commission of Conserva- 

 tion meets, as per statute, in January. 



The electrification of the ■ .es of 

 the National Transcontinental .<ailway 

 in parts of Quebec and New Brunswick 

 is coming to the front and a conference 

 of officials from these provinces with 

 officials of the road was held in Ottawa 

 during December. 



The Canadian Forestry Association 

 has pleasure in welcoming to its ranks 

 M. Chas. Guyot, Director of the Ecole 

 Nationale des Eaux et Forets, Nancy, 

 France, who through the good offiees 

 of Mr. G. C. Piche, M.F., forester to the 

 Department of Lands and Forests of 

 Quebec, has become a life member of the 

 Association. 



