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search work runs into six figures. 

 This practical example of what one 

 lumber company in America has 

 done should show not only the 

 possibilities for a country like 

 Canada, but should also make the 

 lumberman realize the broad field 

 which he must enter in order to 

 achieve full efficiency. 



Canada Cannot Afford This! 

 It is safe to say that this chain of 

 profitable and important industries, 

 which in some departments are mak- 

 ing great contributions to Uncle 

 Sam's need for chemical products, 

 were evolved from a laboratory table. 

 It is unreasonable to contend, there- 

 fore, that the Dominion Government 

 is overlooking the secret of industrial 

 efficiency and commercial expansion 



when it permits, the staff of the 

 Dominion Forest Products Labora- 

 tories to be picked off by private con- 

 cerns, as is now being done, for lack 

 of an adequate salary standard 

 While the United States Forest Pro- 

 duct Laboratories at Madison, Wis- 

 consin, has had its staff increased to 

 over 300 men during was time, the 

 parallel institution at Montreal has 

 lost most of its handful of technical 

 investigators to private firms. Ger- 

 many, well knowing that industrial 

 mastery had its tap root in Science, 

 has persistently strengthened its 

 research facilities while Canada ap- 

 parently looks to "embargo" devices 

 to supply a trade advantage of equal 

 potency. That may suffice for the 

 Canadian market but will npr carry 

 a shipload of Canadian goods beyond 

 Canadian territory. 



Co-operation and Its Beneficent Results 



By Clyde Lavitt 

 Chief Forester, Commission of Conservation. 



Tke application of the co-operative 

 idea ha^ revph.tionized the whole 

 aspect of forest fire protection, in 

 the province of Quebec. The four 

 co-operative forest protective asso- 

 ciations in that province now furnish 

 protection to more than 44,000,000 

 acres of forest land, including about 

 80 per cent, of the Crown timber 

 lands under license. 



A more recent development is in 

 connection with fire protection along 

 the Canadian Government Railways, 

 long a source of dissatisfaction on 

 the part of timber owners. Under 

 the new arrangement, protection will 

 be furnished the forests along the 

 Transcontinental railway in the Abi- 

 tibi district, between Parent and 

 the Ontario boundary, hitherto af- 

 forded but little protection from fire. 

 At the direction of the Minister of 

 Lands and Forests, and with the 

 co-operation of the Government Rail- 

 ways management, the Quebec Forest 

 Service has arranged for the placing 



of five power speeders, with two men 

 for each speeder, on the railway 

 between Parent and the Ontario 

 boundary. 



Worth Saving 



This is a valuable pulp wood sec- 

 tion, and the hazard is increased by 

 the presence of many settlers, busily 

 engaged in extending their clearings 

 and marketing pulp wood, as w^ell 

 as in cultivating crops on lands 

 already cleared. The danger from these 

 settlers' clearing operations is mini- 

 mized by the presence of some eleven 

 fire rangers between Nottaway and 

 La Reine, who patrol for fires and 

 enforce the provisions of the law 

 which prohibits the setting out of 

 fires without a permit from a forest 

 officer. Three portable fire pumps 

 are to be purchased, with 1,500 feet 

 of linen hose for each. Provision 

 wdll be made at Amos for storage 

 and maintenance of all this equip- 

 ment. 



