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Canadian Forestry Journal, July, 191S 

 Public Pay the Cost of Forest Fires 



Henry S. Graves, chief forester of 

 the United States told the Federal 

 Trade Commission that present cut- 

 ting methods are crude and wasteful, 

 but that fires were the greatest factor 

 of loss so far. As systematic fire 

 control is now operating, fires have 

 been reduced to a minimum. The 

 cost of this should be borne by 

 Government and private owners. 



Mr. Graves said: "If when we 

 started using wood in paper making, 

 fire control and scientific reforesta- 

 tion had prevailed, we would now 

 have spruce enough in this country 

 to meet our present needs without 

 going to Canada for our supply, and 

 newsprint paper would be cheaper. 

 But as you must wait so long to 

 reaUze the benefits of this plan, there 

 is lacking the incentive for private 

 owners. It is the public that is 

 responsible for the present condit- 

 tions, and it must pay the cost." 



\ PELEE, A NATIONAL PARK 



'■^ Point Pelee, the most southerly por- 



tion of Canadian territory, jutting out 

 from the lake shore of Essex county, 

 Ontario, into lake Erie for a distance 

 of about nine miles, has just been 

 created a National Park by the 

 Dominion Government, to whom the 

 land belonged. The creation of this 

 park for the protection of its distinct 

 and aLtractive tree and plant life and 

 the wild life it harbours permanently 

 and during certain seasons, was rec- 

 ommended by the Commission of 

 Conservation and the Advisory Board 

 on Wild Life Protection; the Cana- 

 dian Society for the Protection of 

 Birds and the Essex County Wild Life 

 Conservation Association also ad- 

 vocated its creation. 



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The Forestry Journal will be 

 sent to any address in Canada 

 for One Dollar a Year. . . . 



HOW RESEARCH PAYS 



The great laboratory of the General 

 Electric Company at Schenectady is 

 maintained at an annual cost of over 

 $500, 000 and employs seventy-five 

 investigators, including among them 

 several who are eminent in the world 

 of pure science. One of its products 

 is the tungsten lamp which is now 

 manufactured by twenty-two fac- 

 tories scattered over the country. 

 This lamp, according to a very careful 

 estimate made in 1911, was, at that 

 time, effecting a power saving val led 

 at $240,000,000 per annum. Since 

 then, the consumption of this type of 

 lamp has increased three-fold and fur- 

 ther research has increased its effic- 

 iency of light production nearly 25 

 per cent. The research workers are 

 discouraged from thinking of financial 

 results, as discoveries are more likely 

 to be made by those who are working 

 in the scientific spirit. — Prof. J. C. 

 Fields. 



FORESTER BUYING SPRUCE 



Mr. Ellwood \\'ilson, chief forester 

 of the Laurentide Company is now a 

 member of the Imperial Munitions 

 Board and has been assigned the task 

 of buying aeroplane spruce. 



FORESTER REPATRIATED 



Lieutenant J. R. Martin, among 

 the Canadian prisoners in Germany 

 to be repatriated and sent home, was 

 formerly district forester at Nelson, 

 B.C. He was wounded four times 

 before being captured and spent 22 

 months in enemy territory. 



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FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS 

 A recommendation has been made 

 by the New Westminster Board of 

 Trade that in the framing of a per- 

 manent policy to assist the returned 

 soldier to return to civil hfe, among 

 the courses to be given at the B. C. 

 University, forestry should be in- 

 cluded. 



