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Canadian Forestry Journal, September-October, 1912. 



Economy in Manufacture. 

 Mr. E. J. Palmer, president of the B. 

 C. Lumber and Shingle Association, read 

 a paper on economical manufacture. He em- 

 phasized the need for utilizing the timber 

 now wasted and declared that a market 

 could be established for it. There was some 

 education of the public necessary, however, 

 and it would be well for governments also 

 to take a hand and for railways to co- 

 operate by granting lower rates for the 

 transportation of cheap grades of luuiber. 

 The statement had recently been maile to 

 him (Mr. Palmer) by a prominent railway- 

 man that coast mills annually wasted fifty 

 thousand carloads of lower grades. Mr. 

 Palmer cited numerous uses to which these 

 grades could be put. He mentioned the 

 case of limits logged over fifteen years ago, 

 which his company is now logging again 

 and getting twelve thousand feet an acre 

 off, the reason being that there is no.v a 

 market for the smaller tindier which it 

 would not have paid to cut when the limits 

 were first logged. 



Forestry in Quebec. 



Mr. G. C. Piche, chief of the forest ser- 

 vice of the department of lands and forests 

 of Quebec, congratulated British Columbia 

 on having such a splendid forestry system 

 now in elfect. Tn Quebec the government 

 is now engaged in a classification oif lands 

 which are suitable for agriculture, and those 

 which are fit only for timber. There is 

 strict control of logging operations, as to 

 taking out all the merchantable timber and 

 so forth. The disposition of debris is a 

 matter still for the future, and will require 

 lengthy experiment, Mr. Piche said. He 

 gave the convention some interesting de- 

 tails of the f ore' t service of his province, 

 and the work which is being done in re- 

 forestation. 



Mr. A. C. Flumerfelt urged the adoption 

 of a resolution by the conventiou a kiiig 

 the Dominion government either to pMt th<! 

 interpretation desired by the lumbermen up- 

 on the question of duty on common lumber, 

 or else to change the tariff so a-' to pre: erve 

 to the British Columbia !uii}ber;iien the 

 prairie maiket for low-grade huuljer that 

 properly belongs to them. 



Thursday Afternoon. 



At the afternoon session. Mr. George 

 M. Cornwall, secretary of the Pacific Coast 

 Logging Congress, and editor of The Tim- 

 herman, Portland, gave a paper on 'Log- 

 ging as an P^ngineering Science. ' He said 

 that the profession of the logging engineer, 

 though it had not been officially designated 

 as a part of the service, was nevertheless 

 a useful and honorable profession. He then 

 went on to explain a course of study which 

 he suggested should be made part of the 

 university curriculum in order to fit young 

 men for this occupation. 



A general knowledge of the general prin- 

 ciples of steaiu, electricity and hydraulics, 

 he said, is essential; also the student should 

 acquire an actual woiking knowledge of the 

 cutting and removal of timber, and should 

 be a ma"!! of broad sympathies, capable of 

 looking after the men in camp. A man so 

 traineil would be very valuable for the rea- 

 son that his skill would enable him to reduce 

 the cost of logging. The difference of a 

 dollar in cost is easily made, and would 

 amply pay for the training involved. 



The logging engineering course in a 

 college should consist of three depart- 

 ments, which should be in charge of a 

 practical logger, a cruiser and estimator, 

 and an instructor in mechanical and civil 

 engineering. The student should spend at 

 least eight months in the bush and a cer- 

 tain time in a machine and blacksmith 

 shop. He should learn to cruise and esti- 

 mate timber; should have a practical 

 knowledge of civil and mechanical en- 

 gineering, and should be able to make 

 topographical drawings with accuracy. A 

 course of study of this kind would turn 

 out an expert lumberman in the broadest 

 sense. 



The Pacific Logging Congress, in its re- 

 cent sessions at Taeoma, appointed com- 

 mittees for the various coast states and 

 British Columbia, with a view to having 

 the subjects taken u]i in the universities, 

 and he was glad to say that the govern- 

 ment of British Columbia had expressed 

 its sympathy vsuth this. 



Dr. Fernow opened the discussion and 

 led on to a consideration of education in 

 forestry matters. He recalled that the 

 first graduate of Cornell school of for- 

 estry, over which he had presided, while 

 not trained practically, was now a 

 logging engineer and professor of that 

 science in Yale school of forestry. The 

 Ir.st student, because the school failed 

 from political reasons, was in the audi- 

 ence. 



Mr. James Macoun, C. M. G., who had 

 lately visited Strr.tln-ona i)ark declared 

 that" British Columliia had every other 

 part of the Dominion 'trimmed' is the 

 matter of fire protection Whoever was 

 responsible for it, the fire wardens kept 

 notices up so frequently and constantly 

 that one 'got the habit,' and even when 

 they had put fires out, they went back to 

 see if they were out. 



'That region is certainly the finest ]>art 

 of BriMsh Columbia,' said Mr. Macoun, 

 in conclusion. 'Not that the trees are the 

 largest or the best, but there is the 

 largest primeval forest on earth, and it 

 should be preserved. There are there the 

 finest examples of Douglas fir you can 

 find. The government is certainly to be 

 highly commended for the steps it is tak- 

 ing to make this a national park.' 



