1652 Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1918 



Lumberjacks on Liberty Tour 



The picture shows four employees 

 of the Brown Corporation, Berlin, 

 N.H. and I.a Tuque, Quebec, who 

 recently penetrated the snow-bound 

 fastnesses Df the lumber camps and 

 sold war savings stamps worth $4,185 

 in five days. 



Equipped with a melodeon, which 

 made up in volume of music for 

 what it lacked in size, a violin, and 

 hundreds of leaflets on which were 

 printed the words of patriotic songs, 

 these four men chartered a stout 

 pung, painted a vivid blue, and 

 started off on the oddest concert 

 tour New England has ever seen. 

 ^, Besides all the regular patriotic 

 songs their repertoire included 



"Over There," "Good-by Broadway, 

 Hello France," "Keep the Home 

 Fires Burning," "The Long, Long 

 Trail," etc. The lumberjacks now 

 have choral clubs. The party met 

 temperatures of 52 below, and some- 

 times had to resort to snowshoes. 



In all, the concert tour covered 

 136 miles of snow-bound country. 

 They returned with stamps worth 

 $4,185 accredited to the "lumber- 

 jacks" of the North Country, and 

 the firm conviction that the "up 

 river" folk have as warm hearts, 

 as lusty voices, as wideopen pocket- 

 books, and as strong a patriotism 

 as anv to be found in the countrv. 



LOOKING OUT FOR 1950! 



A letter to Toronto Saturday Night 



London, Ont., March, 1918. 

 Dear Sir, — Following up your time- 

 ly article on the advisability of 

 laying up a supply of wood for 

 the coming winter, thereby avoiding 

 another fuel shortage, would it not 

 be well for our Ontario Government 

 to take up the matter, if it has 

 not already been done, of making 

 the province a producer and not 

 a consumer alone of this kind of 

 fuel? Many sections of Western Ont- 



ario in particular, which were once 

 heavily wooded are now practic- 

 ally bare and in a few years time 

 good timber will be as little seen 

 as the Buffalo on our western prairies. 

 A timber raising campaign might 

 be started to put in a dozen or 

 more trees of good varieties for 

 every one moved and thus in some 

 way meet the future requirements 

 for timber and fuel and should 

 as well be profitable. 



Yours truly, 



TRAVELLER. 



AN IMPLEMENT FIRM'S WOOD REQUIREMENTS. 



In a letter to the Forestry Journnl, the Massey Harris Company, Toronto, 

 state that the average annual consumption of timber in their Toronto and 

 Brantford factories in the making of farm implements amounts to 20,000,000 

 board feet. 



