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so as to prevent live ashes, matches, 

 etc., from being thrown out; (4) to 

 require all industrial plants in the im- 

 mediate vicinity of forests to have the 

 smoke-stacks screened with efficient 

 wire-screen bonnets; (5) to make it 

 obligatory on limit holders to put on a 

 sufficient number of fire-rangers, the 

 department to be authorized to do so 

 at the limit-holder's expense in case of 

 his refusal or neglect. 



appointment of Chief and Supervising 

 Rangers, with the object of attaining 

 greater efficiency. 



Continuing The project of plant- 

 Their ing waste land in the 



Efforts. counties of Durham 



and Northumberland 

 continues to make headway. The agri- 

 cultural committee of the council of the 

 counties is pushing the tnatter, and the 

 Ontario provincial government has 

 undertaken to have a survey made of 

 the lands in question. A series of meet- 

 ings is being held in the counties to 

 further agitate the question. A large 

 meeting was held at Cobourg on De- 

 cember 9th, during the session of the 

 council of the counties, which was ad- 

 dressed by Dr. B. E. Fernow. 



Back The Association would 



Numbers like to secure a few 



Wanted. copies of the issues of 



the Forestry J o u r- 

 NAL for June and October, 1908, for 

 which the sum of 25c. each will be paid. 

 Such copies should be forwarded to F. 

 W. H. Jacombe, Assist. -Secretary, For- 

 estry Branch, Department of the In- 

 terior, Ottawa. 



Recent Restriction of cutting 



Ontario by the imposition of a 



Changes. diameter limit is a re- 



cent innovation in On- 

 tario timber sales; in the sale of Oc- 

 tober 15th last, it was provided by the 

 terms and conditions of sale that no 

 trees of a less diameter than nine inches 

 on the stump should be cut, and, further, 

 that all timber should be taken down 

 to this limit. Ground rent was charged 

 at the rate of $5.00 per mile, and $2.00 

 per thousand feet was charged as stump- 

 age dues, in some cases on the pine only, 

 in other cases on all timber. The fire 

 ranging system has been strengthened, 

 not only by the increase in the number 

 of rangers appointed, but also by the 



Forestry The Department of 



Abroad. Trade and Commerce 



has given instructions 

 to the Trade Commissioners to send in 

 reports on forestry in the countries to 

 which each is accredited. The list of 

 questions to be answered is as follows : — 

 (1) What is the forestry organization of 

 each country? (2) What is the forest 

 fire protection? (3) What are the 

 principal forest laws and how are they 

 applied? (4) What are the principal 

 commercial trees of each cotintry? 



(5) What are the principal uses made 

 of the forest products and by-products? 



(6) How is the forest force recruited? 

 What are the forest schools, etc. ? (7) 

 What are the principal publications 

 published by the forest department of 

 each country? Are they available to 

 Canadians? (8) Is reforestation 

 thought of or carried on to any large 

 extent? What are the species planted? 

 Is convict labour used for the purpose? 



A number of the reports have already 

 been received, and when all are in thej' 

 will be published together and should 

 make interesting reading for all in- 

 terested in forestrv. 



B. C. Forest The official summary 

 Fires of of forest fires in British 



1909. Columbia during the 



season of 1909 states 

 that the total number of fires reported 

 was 489. During the season thirty-five 

 fire wardens have been patrolling the 

 wooded districts. Of these fires 118 

 were reported as being started by rail- 

 way locomotives, 99 from clearing land 

 and 56 from campers. Many other 

 minor causes are assigned, such as slash- 

 ing, pic-nic parties, ranchers, Indians 

 and cigar stubs; of 124 fires the causes 

 are unknown. The area of timber and 

 slashing burned over is put at 18,619 

 acres. The quantities of timber de- 

 stroyed are pvit as follows: 1,420,000 

 board feet of poor quality timber; 

 5,710,000 feet of medium qualitv; 300 

 to 400 piles; 4,000 fence posts;' $220 

 worth of cordwood ; 30 bolts and SO 

 ties. "Improvements" to the value of 

 some $7,500 were also destroyed. Eight 



