Canadian Forcstri/ Journal, August, 191S 



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LQVAL CITIZEN TO GUAOD THt FORESTS FgOfc< FIBR 



Canadian Forest by Asscx:iation Exhibition Cak. 



CntTtainin^ Lectures - Novel Exhibits - Motion Pictures <y 



EXHIBITION RAILWAY COACH TO TOUR THE EAST 

 Canadian Forestry Association arranges a unique advertisement for forest 



Protection 



By grace of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the Railway War 

 Board, the Canadian Forestry Association has been placed in temporary 

 possession of an Exhibition Railway Car to travel in Ontario, Quebec, New 

 Brunswick, and Nova Scotia as an advertisement for forest protection. 



The car will be outfitted by the Forestry Association with motion picture 

 equipment and a travelling lecturer so that public meetings can be held at 

 scores of smaller communities either in the lecture room of the car or at a 

 local hall. Arrangements have been made to install wireless outfit, forest 

 telephone and fire fighting pumps, all in actual operation, with miniature 

 airplane, lookout tower, as well as a dimunitive forest nursery. Large 

 quantities of instructive literature will be carried for free distribution. Ban- 

 ners containing such warnings as "Canada expects every loyal citizen to guard 

 against forest fires" will adorn the exterior of the car from end to end and with 

 flags and bunting will make a striking presentation. 



Lectures will be given several times a day, according to the running 

 schedule. 



The coming of the Exhibition Car will be well advertised in advance. 

 Several months will be occupied by the journey. 



Italy on Thin Edge of Forest Supply 



The yearly cut from Italian for- 

 ests, without considering fuel wood, 

 before the war amounted to not more 

 than 600 million feet a year. 



"Up to date the lack of imported 

 lumber and the demands of the war 

 have made such inroads upon the 

 supply that for about 15 years no 

 more timber can be cut. If the war 

 ends within a year or two, Italy must 

 import at least two billion board feet 

 per year, but if lumber juices abroad 

 are approximately the same in gold 

 as they were before the war, it will 

 impart from three to four billion 

 board feet for about three years and 

 two billion board feet for the 12 years 

 following. Many Italian lumber con- 

 cerns had their own tracts of timber 



and mills in that part of Austria 

 bordering upon the Italian Veneto. 

 These concerns will not go back into 

 Austria if lumber can be imported from 

 elsewhere and lumber prices a';e 

 within reason. 



""Outside of southern pine from 

 the L'nited States, virtually all the 

 wood imported was of the kind 

 known in Italy as ""abete" (Eiirop- 

 or fir. In my opinion, 

 be a postwar market for 

 spruiCe, hemlock, south- 

 swamp cypress, redwood 

 and Douglas fir or Oregon pine, as 

 well as for a fair quantity of American 

 white oak, the last named in the form 

 of railway ties particularly. 



{U. S. Consular report.) 



can pine 

 there will 

 American 

 ern pine. 



