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Canadian Forestry Journal, July, 191S 



treated as of no importance and 

 allowed to starve for lack of a sound 

 forest policy." 



The Forest Policy of West Aus- 

 tralia is given as follows: 



1. Demarkation and permanent 

 reservation of the prime timber coiin- 

 trv. 



2. The regulation of the cutting of 

 timber so that only that quantity is 

 cut annually which can be replaced 

 by the natural growth of the forest. 



3. The improvement of all cut and 

 semi-cut out areas with a view to 

 assuiing Ihe regeneration of the best 

 species for future cutting. 



A Wood Fuel Scarcitij in Ontario 



If Peel County, Ontario, may be 

 accepted as typical of other counties 

 in that province, the outlook for wood 

 fuel supply for the coming winter is 

 hardly cheering. Notices have been 

 sent out to the farmers and others by 

 the Provincial Fuel Controller urging 

 the laying in of a supply of anthracite 

 -coal and cordwood at tlie earliest pos- 

 sible moment. This appeal may have 

 some efTect on the cutting of wood fuel 

 late next Fall but at present the 

 farmer's sole attention is given to 

 securing all the anthracite that his 

 local dealer can import. At Bramp- 

 ton, for example, dealers have found 

 the farmer so obliging in teaming the 

 coal to his farm direct from the rail- 

 way siding that the townspeople have 

 yet to get their first "look-in" on a 

 winter coal supply. Other towns and 

 villages have had a similar experience. 

 The farmer is rapidly picking up all 

 the coal in sight, while those who 

 lack any means of transport are 

 waiting Iheir first chance at anthra- 

 cite fuel. 



In Peel County, a good quantity of 

 fuel wood was cut last winter for 

 home use. It is stated that the 

 amount avadable for sale to towns- 

 people will be negligible. A few 

 weeks ago, a farmer seventeen miles 

 from Toronto purchased two car 

 loads of cordwood at $10.50 a cord 

 f. o. b. and the net cost delivered in 

 his own farm yard was $12.50 a cord. 



Any visitor to rural Ontario is 

 aware of many communities where 

 cord wood is going to waste in wood- 

 lots while the owners and neighbors 

 are frantically reaching out for coal. 

 Labor scarcity doubtless has much to 

 do with the present situation. For 



example, an Ontario farmer, owning 

 an excellent lot of maple and elm, 

 offered fifty per cent, of the. wood to 

 any man who would come in and do 

 the cutting; he has not had a single 

 response thus far. 



$65,000,000 FIRE BURDEN 



Up to the present, the fire loss of 

 the Dominion of Canada is 25 per 

 cent, greater than for the correspond- 

 ing period of last year. If this rate 

 of destruction continues, the loss will 

 exceed thirty-two million dollars in 

 1918, and, together with expenditures 

 upon insurance and fire protection, 

 will constitute a burden of over 

 $65,000,000. This means about $10 

 out of the pocket of every man, 

 woman and child in Canada, or 

 almost $40 for the average family. 



WOODMEN AS RANGERS 

 The New Brunswick Government 

 is advertising for experienced wood- 

 men lO act as forest rangers — one of 

 the gratifying signs, points out The 

 St. John Globe, of the new era of 

 forest management in the Province. 

 New Brunswick sets an example in 

 piiici; h whi^h other Provinces would 

 do well to follow in all departments 

 of Government. 



FOREST FIRES SAVED APPLES? 



Says the Lunenburg, N. S. Record: 

 "It is an ill wind that blows no- 

 body good," was truly exemplified 

 last week when the smoke from the 

 forest fires settled, it is said, like a 

 pall over the Annapolis Valley and 

 saved the apple blossoms from frosts 



