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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Mr. A. K. Shives, Forest Assistant, Fort 

 George, B.C., has just been making a trip to the 

 East and congratulations are being extended to 

 him by his friends because of the rumor that he 

 is buying two tickets for the return journey, on 

 which he visited the Forestry Department of 

 the Laurentide Co. and looked over the work 

 at Grand' Mere. 



his logging operations in Quebec. Mr. Brown 

 takes a very active interest in forestry matters 

 in Canada. 



The Hon. Jules Allard, Minister of Lands & 

 Forests, Quebec, has been in poor health for 

 some time and in March made a trip to the 

 Expositions ai San Diego and San Francisco. 

 The Minister is always progressive where 

 forestry matters are concerned and has made a 

 grant of $300 to issue in cooperation with the 

 St. Maurice Forest Protective Association, a 

 small leaflet on preventing forest fires, which 

 will be distributed to all the school children in 

 the Province, both French and English. He 

 has also under way a bill to be introduced in 

 the next session of the Legislature, regulating 

 the taxation of planted lands. 



Mr. Avila Bedard, Assistant Forester of 

 Quebec, has just published a very interesting 

 article in the French Review "La Nouvelle 

 France," called "L'influence immaterielle des 

 forets" dealing with the influence of the forest 

 on poetry, prose, philosophy, religion and 

 civilization. 



Chancellor Jones, of the University of New 

 Brunswick, has taken an active part in the 

 work to have the Intercolonial Railway placed 

 under the Railway Commissions Forest Fire 

 Regulations and has done much to forward the 

 cause of forestry in his Province. 



Mr. R. F. Grant, Manager of the St. Maurice 

 Lumber Company, has just returned from a 

 trip into the woods and reports having seen 

 two large wolves caught in traps in one of his 

 logging operations on the Trenche River. 

 Wolves are increasing in this section. 



Mr. F. A. Sabbaton, Assistant Manager of 

 the Laurentide Company, was taken suddenly 

 ill with appendicitis about 10 days ago. He 

 was successfully operated on at the Western 

 Hospital in Montreal and is making a rapid 

 recovery. 



Early in February Mr. Cowles, of W. H. 

 Parsons & Company, of New York; Mr. Hart, 

 of New Haven, and Mr. Rothery of New 

 York, made a trip to The Parsons Company's 

 holdings in Quebec and New Brunswick to look 

 them over and to consider a new system of 

 management and control of logging operations. 

 They also visited the Brown Company at La 

 Tuque and The Laurentide Company at Grand' 

 Mere. At the former place they had a very 

 exciting time on the toboggan slide which has 

 a drop of about 90 feet in the first 200 and 

 one slide is said to be enough for one day. 



At the Annual Meeting of the St. Maurice 

 Forest Protective Association held in Three 

 Rivers, Quebec, on the fourth of March, a very 

 satisfactory showing was made. Mr. R. L. 

 de Carteret, of the Brown Company was elected 

 President ; Mr. Ellwood Wilson, of The Lauren- 

 tide Company, Vice-President; Mr. Henry 

 Sorgius, Secretary-Treasurer and General 

 Manager, and Messrs. R. F. Grant, of the St. 

 Maurice Lumber Company, J. M. Dalton, of the 

 Union Bag & Paper Company and Gres Falls 

 Company, Charles Lebrun, of the Belgo- 

 Canadian Pulp & Paper Company, and Frank 

 I. Ritchie, of the Wayagamack Pulp & Paper 

 Company, were elected Directors. The Tour- 

 ville Lumber Mills Company withdrew from 

 the Association because one of their foremen 

 was not allowed to use the Association's fire 

 rangers to take him around on his woods trips 

 and do other work besides fire-ranging. In the 

 old days fire rangers were used as depot keepers, 

 canoe men, guides, dam keepers, etc., and 

 consequently fires were frequent. 



The Laurentide Company will continue its 

 planting operations this Spring on wild and 

 burntjrverjlands, putting in about 750,000 trees, 

 mostly Norway spruce, 3 year old seedlings 

 planted about 1,700 trees per acre. The trees, 

 planted last year did remarkably well making 

 an average of over 6 inches in height for the 

 season. 



Mr. Gustave A. Kuhring, a graduate of the 

 Forestry Department of the University of 

 New Brunswick, has enlisted with the Third 

 Canadian Contingent. 



The Report of The Dominion Parks' Com- 

 missioner has just been issued and is a very 

 interesting book, excellently illustrated. The 

 number of people who visit and use these parks 

 is surprisingly large and shows what a National 

 asset they are, bringing people from all parts 

 of the world. The reports on the wild animals, 

 buffaloes, elk, moose, antelope, deer and so on 

 are delightful reading and the pictures of 

 scenery are well worth looking at. Any one 

 who wishes an interesting place to spend the 

 summer should write for a copy of this report. 



W. R. Brown, of The Berlin Mills Co. and 

 Director of the American Forestry Association, 

 was in Quebec on his way to look over some of 



New war tariff on lumber entering Canada 

 has been increased on practically every sort 

 by 7% per cent. This will somewhat help 

 the cause of conservation in Canada by raising 

 the prices for home grown timber. 



At the request of the Dominion Parks 

 Branchthe E. B. Eddy Company, of Hull, is now 

 printing in striking colors and attractive design 

 on their match boxes an effective fire notice, 

 warning the public not to throw away burning 

 matches, especially in the woods. The Eddy 

 Company is also installing machinery to im- 

 pregnate their match sticks so that after the 

 head and a small portion of the stick has burnt 

 the rest will not glow or burn. 



