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Canadian Forestry Journal, May- June, 1912. 



Mr. A. Knechtel, Inspector of For- 

 est Reserves, visited Fredericton, N. 

 B., in April, as representative of the 

 forestry Branch, spending the week 

 from April 4 to April 10 in examin- 

 ing the timberland belonging to the 

 University of New Brunswick, in 

 ■company with Prof. R. B. Miller, and 

 conferring as to the policy to be 

 .adopted in the treatment of the tract. 

 As a result of the conference, a forest 

 working plan will be prepared and a 

 strip survey has already been started 

 as a preliminary to this. Studies for 

 ■volume and yield tables will be pre- 

 pared next fall on tracts adjoining 

 the property, and thus the cutting of 

 the University's forest will be ren- 

 dered unnecessary. A trail will be 

 ■cut along the boundary at one side 

 of the tract; certain necessary clean- 

 ings and thinnings have already been 

 begun. 



Kenneth R. Machum, of the junior 

 class of the U. of N. B. forestry de- 

 partment, is working with the fores- 

 try branch of the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway's new department of natural 

 resources. 



Prof. R. B. Miller, of the Univer- 

 sity of New Brunswick, in a recent 

 newsy letter to the Editor, gives in- 

 teresting notes of activities in the 

 Maritime Provinces. An important 

 part of his spring's programme has 

 been the supervising of a plantation 

 of 15,000 Norway spruce seedlings on 

 land belonging to the Rhodes Curry 

 Co., at Little River, N.S. The stock 

 used was three-year-old transplants, 

 strong and hardy stock, secured from 

 Ostermann & Sons, Germany. A 

 tract of some ten acres was laid off 

 in a burned area and all debris re- 

 moved. A fire guard will be plowed 

 around the plantation and a fence 

 erected to keep out the deer. He also 

 supervised the planting of several 

 hundred ornamental trees on the sum- 

 mer estate of Mr. N. Curry, of Mont- 

 real, president of the Canadian Manu- 

 facturers' Association, at Tidnish, N. 

 S. Work in prospect at the time of 

 writing included a summer camp on 



the college lands for a short time, fol- 

 lowed by the oversight of a party of 

 students making an estimate of 3,000 

 acres for private individuals in the 

 province. After a short visit to Prof. 

 Hawley and a party of Yale Juniors 

 engaged in some timber-marking 

 work near Woods Lake Siding, in 

 the Adirondacks, New York State, for 

 the International Paper Co., he will 

 spend the summer at his home in 

 Indiana. He considers the prospects 

 of the forestry department decidedly 

 encouraging. 



Mr. R. R. Bradley, of the New 

 Brunswick Railway and Land Co., 

 will have a party of three U. of N. B. 

 students with him this summer. 



Mr. A. 11. D. Ross will again spend 

 the summer in the employ of the Can- 

 adian Pacific Railway Company as 

 consulting forester. 



Foresters now in British Columbia 

 include Dr. Judson F. Clark, and 

 Messrs. R. D. Craig, H. C. Wallin, A. 

 S. Williams, L. Margolin, H. C. King- 

 horn and P. L. Lyford. 



Asa S. Williams, F.E., is British 

 Columbia agent for the Allis-Chal- 

 mers-Bullock Co., manufacturers of 

 logging machinery. Business seems 

 to be pretty good, as he has just sold 

 three more over-head skidders for 

 Vancouver Island. Former ones have 

 proved very successful in handling 

 the heavy Coast timber. 



Mr. Overton W. Price, former As- 

 sistant Forester for the United States, 

 is now in British Columbia, acting as 

 consulting forester for the B. C. gov- 

 ernment in the organization of their 

 forestry department. 



The United States took 63.8 per cent, 

 of the mechanical wood pulp and 95.7 per 

 cent, of the chemical wood pulp exported 

 from Canada in 1909. 



The fire at Porcupine is a repetition of 

 the story that has become common where- 

 ever standing timber is still to be found. 

 Some day there will be an official awak- 

 ening to the need of real precautious. — • 

 Toronto Globe. 



