Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1918 



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amount of trouble. of modern hauling machinery desir- 



Elephants and native oxen have able, 

 been the great beasts of burden. This involves the construction of 



The advancing costs of elephants roads, (which were dispensed with 



which now range from $2,000 to in the use of elephants) and con- 



$3,000, has made the introduction sequently a heavy state investment. 



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HAULING LOGS IN A BURMESE TEAK YARD. 



WOMEN AS RANGERS 



"I wonder," asks a correspondent 

 in the Toronto newspapers, "how 

 the Ontario Government will get 

 men to do the work of fire rangers? 

 The government has to patrol miles 

 of railroad besides the forests. Of 

 course, women could not do the 

 forest work, for the men have to 

 carry all their provisions and their 

 canoes over the portages and to 

 cut portages and find new routes 

 and rough it generally. Perhaps 

 women could do the railroad patrol 

 work, and thus leave hundreds of 

 males free for the other and rougher 

 and heavier work. Patrolling the 



railroads is healthy, and it would 

 be a change. What do the women 

 think about it?" 



DECLINE IN PUBLISHING 



For twenty years the number 

 of newspapers and periodicals in 

 the United States has been steadily 

 declining, relatively to population. 

 In the last decade or so the number 

 of daily newspapers has notably 

 decreased. A contemporary reports 

 that, though the population of the 

 fourteen largest cities in Michigan 

 had doubled, the number of daily 

 papers has fallen from forty-two 

 to twenty-three. 



