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tables as aids for liml)cr cstimalini* 

 nor growth or yield tal)les as bases for 

 calculating the results of our silvi- 

 culture in existence. Aieanwhile, 

 tridy foolish ideas prevail regarding 

 the rate of growth of forest trees and 

 forest acres. A correction of these 

 ideas through systematic measure- 

 ments will 1)1 ing the wholesome reali- 



zation that the replacement of our 

 cut timber takes many more years 

 than is generally ])elieved. We may 

 add that these investigations are most 

 uigently needed for the species of the 

 eastern provinces, whicli have already 

 been largely exploited and where 

 recuperalive measures should be ap- 

 plied at once." 



Keep the Woodlot for Future Needs 



By 'M/?m//c" in Toronto Globe. 



The importance of a well-thought- 

 out system of forest conservation 

 in connection with land settlement 

 cannot be too strongly emphasized. 

 We all realize now the evil effects of 

 over-clearing of land in older Ontario. 

 There has been over-clearing even of 

 good agricultural land; some land 

 wholly unfitted for agricultural pro- 

 duction, that should have been left in 

 permanent forest, has been stripped 

 clear of timber. As a result, over a 

 vast territory once rich in wood, 

 people would be in danger of freezing 

 io death ;»'ere it not for imports of coal 

 from the United States. Despite the 

 hsson so taught there are consid- 

 erable areas in New Ontario, north 

 of New Liskeard, opened up only 

 yesterday, in which the fuel problem 

 is already almost as acute as it 

 is in older Ontario. We should 

 see that the folly shown in these 

 two cases is not repeated in that 

 vast territory stretching some 400 

 miles west of Cochrane, a beginning 

 on the opening of which has been 

 made by independent settlers, string- 

 ing out along the line of the Trans- 

 continental, and continued by the 

 returned-soldier farming colony, 

 farther west along the same line. 

 In practically every case, land occu- 

 pied along this line has been 

 completely cleared as far back from 

 the railway as cutting has gone. No 

 such avenues of trees as have been 

 planted here and there along the 

 roadsides in older Ontario have been 

 left along the right-of-way or where 

 the lanes will lead up to the houses. 



There is no evidence of preparation 

 for the leaving of wood lots as a 

 permanent source of lumber and fuel 

 supply for those making homes in 

 that country. It should be pait of 

 the conditions of sale that in all cases 

 a certain proportion of the land 

 allotted settlers shall be reserved for 

 permanent timber growth. 



NEW PAPER-MAKING 

 PROCESS 



From Queensland come reports of 

 successful experiments in manufac- 

 turing paper pulp out of "lalang" 

 grass, which resembles very clcsely 

 the "esparto" of Spain and North 

 Africa, and which when dried before 

 making it into pulp yields as high as 

 sixty per cent, of iirst-class paper- 

 making pulp. The expert states that 

 esparto is the best pulp known, and 

 the lalang grass product is within ten 

 per cent, of the same value. There 

 are millions of tons of this grass grow- 

 ing in Queensland. Three crops a 

 year can be cut from it, and this plant 

 is said to be otherwise a curse to tiie 

 country. Chinese "barr" — Urena — 

 and the Queensland hemp — Sid Ret- 

 usa — are said to produce thirty per 

 cent, of first-class paper pulp. Lan- 

 tana, which is also regarded as a great 

 pest, makes an excellent wrapping- 

 paper. 



Cellidose from seaweed and a paper 

 milk bottle are the latest additions to 

 the paper industry extension. 



