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lar dealers, in order to maintain a 

 suitable reserve of wood fuel for 

 emergency use. All accessible 

 sources of supply should be con- 

 sidered, as well as what measures 

 are feasible to make the necessary 

 amount of wood available for use. 

 No doubt, in many cases, the local 

 dealers may be able to provide ade- 

 quately for the situation by laying in 

 considerably larger supplies of wood 

 fuel than usual. However, in many 

 other cases this action should not be 

 relied upon, due to the heavy invest- 

 ments involved, and supplementary 

 action by other private interests or 

 by local governmental agencies, be- 

 comes essential. The form of such 

 action is a matter to be settled ac- 

 cording to the local conditions in 

 each case. Under some circum- 

 stances, the city or municipality 

 should purchase a reserve supply, 

 outright. In some cases, some form 

 of guarantee against loss by local 

 dealers may be found practicable, 

 such as would justify the purchase of 

 a stipulated quantity of wood at a 

 fixed price. 



Farmers and rural communities 

 generally should revert, so far as 

 possible, to the use of wood fuel. 

 Farmers should also be urged to cut 

 additional supplies of wood for sale 

 for town and city use. This, in the 

 aggregate, would help tremendously 

 in relieving the coal shortage. 



Duhj of Ihv Provinces 



The Provincial Governments, on 

 the other hand, niay render a great 

 public service by entering vigor- 

 ously into this campaign. Some 

 one familiar with conditions, pre- 

 ferably working under the direc- 

 tion of the Provincial Forester, 

 should take these matters up ac- 

 tively with city and municipal 

 governments. A campaign of edu- 

 cation may be expected t o 

 stimulate both the production and 

 consumption of wood fuel. In 

 some cases, no doubt, timber on 

 Crown lands wiJ be found to be 

 commercially accessible to a speci- 

 fic market; in such cases the pro- 

 vincial authorities may reasonably 



be expected to assist materially in 

 the completion of necessary ar- 

 rangements for cLiLLing. The saving 

 in slumpage cost on Crown Lands, 

 over ll\e privately - owned timl)er 

 neaiei- to I lie towns and cities, should 

 at least go far toward overcoming the 

 higher cost of rail transportation in 

 the case of the former. 



M nnicipid C.oinpclilion 



The aim should by all means be to 

 secure an aclual increase in the 

 amount of wood cut and to supple- 

 ment the supplies that would in any 

 event be handled by the regular 

 dealers. For a city or municipal 

 government to simply compete ^vith 

 the dealers for the limited normal 

 supplies of wood will not improve the 

 siluation in the least, and might 

 seriously injure it, by driving the 

 latter partially or wholly from the 

 held. It is perfectly obvious that an 

 increased consumption of wood can 

 follow only from the tapping of new 

 sources of supply, or from a material 

 stimulation of production from nor- 

 mal sources. City and municii)al 

 governments should, as already in- 

 dicated, consider carefully the laying 

 in of a reserve supply of wood fuel, to 

 be held for emergency use, when coal 

 and wood supplies of the regular 

 dealers have become seriously de- 

 ])leted. An investment of^ this 

 character is simply a reasonable form 

 of insurance against possible disaster. 



Since the heating value of wood fuel 

 is in direct proportion to its dry 

 weight, hardwoods, such as beech, 

 birch and haid maple, are to be pre- 

 ferred. 



The really essential thing is that 

 there shall be definite recognition 

 that an emergency exists, which 

 can in part be met through the 

 wider use of wood fuel; also that 

 there should be provision for cen- 

 tralized organisations in the sever- 

 al provinces to determine what 

 specific action is necessary and 

 feasible, and for seeing that such 

 action is taken. Steps now under way 

 in this direction will no doubt meet 

 with the full support of the public. 



