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before long. Another contemi)lated 

 step is the organization of a school 

 for the instruction of forest guards 

 for the government and the lumber 

 companies. A preliminary building 

 is to be built this year at Berthier- 

 ville, on the nursery grounds, and no 

 doubt within two years the under 

 school will be in operation, as there 

 is a greal demand for such instruc- 

 tion. 



The lumbermen of Quebec are tak- 

 ing a great interest in the work of 

 education. They have given employ- 

 ment to some of the students during 

 their months of practise, and it is ex- 

 pected that they will co-operate be- 

 fore long in the organization of the 

 chairs of lumbering, wood industries, 

 etc. 



University of Toronto Notes. 



The Faculty of Forestry, University of 

 Toronto, which graduated twelve students 

 last year, has in the registration for the 

 present academic year filled up its ranks 

 to the number of 44, two old students who 

 had interrupted their course returning and 

 17 new ones being registered. The grad- 

 uating class has ten names, the first year 

 of the four-year course eight names, the 

 second year ten, and the third year five, 



l)esides eight in the six-year course in vari- 

 ous years, and three occasional students. 



Mo^t of the graduates found employment 

 with the Forestry Branch of the Dominion 

 Department of the Interior, and a few with 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. 



The call for foresters, owing to the sud- 

 den organization of the British Columbia 

 Forest Branch, has been so urgent that the 

 J^ominion Branch has not been able to retain 

 all its men, and a number have joined the 

 new department. The market for foresters 

 has been brisk with consequent raises in 

 salaries to an unusual level for young men, 

 and altogether a hopeful development for 

 employment is anticipated. 



There have been no essential changes in 

 the curriculum as followed hitherto, except 

 that the practice camp has been held at the 

 beginning of the session instead of at the 

 end. 



An unusually satisfactory location for the 

 camp was found at Frank's Bay, Lake 

 Nipissing, Ontario, where an old depot of 

 the John B. Smith & Sons Lumber Com- 

 pany was at the disposal of the fifteen 

 students who attended the camp, with two 

 instructors, and a virgin stand of led pine 

 (limits of the Strong Lumber Company), to 

 be logged this winter, together with other 

 types, gave excellent opportunity for prac- 

 tice work in forest survey, and gathering 

 data for working plan, studying detail of 

 types, constructing growth tables, etc. 



The work was carried out according to 

 careful plans and has been so complete and 

 satisfactory with regard to red pine growth- 

 studies that it is expected to publish the 

 results. 



Forcstation on National Forests in the United 



States 



By Theodore S. Woolsey, Jr., Asst. Dist. Forester, U. S. Forest Service. 



United States government foresters 

 have realized for some time the enor- 

 mous task before them in order to ar- 

 tificially reforest land that should be 

 perpetually timber-producing. The 

 total area of National Forests is ap- 

 proximately 190,000,000 acres. It is 

 estimated that there are 15,000,000 

 acres within the forests which have 



*Based upon the National Forest Manual 

 and upon the report of the Forester for 

 1911. 



been deforested and that half of this 

 area is reforesting naturally at the 

 rate of 150,000 acres a year. This 

 leaves the enormous total of seven 

 and one half million acres to be plant- 

 ed and sown artificially. 



The policy is now pretty well es- 

 tablished that watersheds should first 

 be reforested, and then areas where 

 a good stand of timber can be quick- 

 ly ol)tained at a low cost and where 

 the local need for timber supplies is 



