An Oiiltiritt Fnrtsl Survey. 



81 



Measures for the Preventiim 

 of Fire 



(Concluded from i)age 78.) 



place for the strips to be Imrcil must be 

 chosen when planting. 



The laving out and keeping up of the 

 protection strips naturally costs something, 

 and the strips are only a sure protection 

 if carefully kept up. But the cost of this 

 system is far less than the sarrifice, which 

 must be made to keep i\\> the heretofore 

 little useful, bare protecting strips, used in 

 North Germany, and a management used, 

 as is the railway, to install all means for 

 safety of J>as^engers and to run its business 

 with the most painstaking care, will easily 

 carry out the relatively simple rules laid 

 down here. The wood-owner must strive to 

 protect his forests from devastating fires, 

 and it will be to his own interest as well as 

 that of the <(nintry in general to co-operate 

 with the railway management. 



PAY MORE FOR PULPWOOD. 



The Montreal corresponilent of the Paper 

 Trade Journal, one of the leading journals 

 of the paper trade in the I nited States, sent 

 to that journal lately an interi-sting note 

 on the efre<'t of the prohibition of pulpwood 

 export. After noting the fact that it is only 

 recently, for the first time, that the l' nited 

 States mills are cfimpelled to come to Can- 

 ada for their supply, and the reasons for 

 this, the despatch continues: 'They find 

 that the price has a<lvanced practically $1 

 per cord, and they are now for<"ed to pay 

 from .$7.")n to !?S for peelcil wood cut on 

 free lands. This extra dollar charged for 

 puli)Wootl will mean an extra dollar charj,'cc| 

 for their pulp. This gives the ("anaiiiun 

 paper nuiker so mu<h of an advantage. The 

 indications are that the price of raw pulp- 

 wooil will continue to increase from vt-nr to 

 year owing to this scarcity, which will result 

 in further advantages to the Canadian manu- 

 facturer, and eventually his absorption of 

 the entire iimrket. The real si: ^ 



the whole matter is found in t .; 



this is the first real test of the working of 

 the Gouin law, and it is proving itM-lf lo Ix- 

 an admirable and advantageous thing for 

 the Canadian pulp and i>aper manufacturer.' 



Forestry seeks not only to prevent the de 

 Ptruction of the forests but to secure •>'<■•' 

 imjirovement so that they will be in n • 

 tion to produce each year, 

 ering of their value, even gr^ 

 they have yet produced unrler mr' 

 exploitation. To secure this re'* 

 must achieve fire jtrotection, p- 

 waste in the logging, r 

 of lumber, and the rci. 

 and put-over lands. 



AN ONTARIO FOREST SURVEY. 



Diiiitig tiii.s loiiiiMg s the 



( '<iiiiiMis.si()ti of < 'oiiH<Tvati<Mi wni eon- 

 duct a survey (»r a portion of Hali- 

 liurton county aiul tin* northiTn jiart 

 of the county of I'ctcrlK)roujrh. Orn 

 lario. This survey is to fi;--' ' a 

 tit'failfil (If.scription of the • .ic 



and natural conilitions and n'Mourros 

 <»r the watcrshrd in I*»'tcrJM»r" kI 



Ifalihurton counticH feeding; ti.- . . nt 

 canal waters and to Hcrve as a l>aMUi 

 for a phm of jnaiuiffcnicnt. The en- 

 tire area is alniut 1.500 Hquarf miles 

 in extent. 



The survey is under the Huperin- 

 tendence of Dr. li. E. Fernow. the 

 (iehl work l)einj; done hv I)r ('. I). 

 Howe atid .Mr .F. II. While, with 

 thn-e stutleiits. The survey was start- 

 ed during? th«' fotirth week of .^!ay, 

 in the townshij) of Mjirtnora i H;i«- 



tings county). This is at th- 'h- 



rast corner of the area tu In y- 



ed. which includes all the townKhips 

 n(trth of Sturm'on and St<»?iy lakes, 

 ;is far west a.s Victoria "'v 



The information vs\ sought 



is the diNtribution of farm jiiid fiiniit 

 latid.s and of forest typ<-s Tli<- lirnt 



oltj<'Ct of the survey is t<> ^ • •'••- 



tailed int'ornuition, not <> 

 ural conditions, hut also of o .p 



an*l wonomie conditions of tli. luun- 

 try surveyed. 



The Dominion ^mvernmcnt hnA » 

 distinct intercHt in the part of the 

 country to W st. '« 



havinjf sp - ?», 



during th' tU 



on the building of danui r 



of en- s of 



i''"?i. .... the 



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( ommimon of ' 

 takint? the work 



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