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are significant chiefly as showing the present trend 

 in the management of privately owned timber lands. 

 One of the largest and best known companies, v/hich 

 draws upon timber in northern New York State, has 

 been making a thorough and comprehensive survey 

 of all its holdings with a view to establishing such 

 methods as will tend to make the material last, 

 while further south in the Allegheny mountain 

 region another prominent concern is holding about 

 134,000 acres of cut-over land for a second timber 

 crop. Through various experiments the pulp and 

 paper industry has done much to establish an index 

 of forest planting costs, and a very complete report 

 on this subject covering various sections of the 

 United States from Maine to Minnesota, and ex- 

 tending into Ontario and Quebec, has recently been 

 prepared. Because many of the large Canadian 

 pulp plants have been operated by American citizens 

 in their search for hitherto untouched forest 

 resources, relations with Canadian paper manufac- 

 turers are very close. They indicate that on the 

 whole, eastern Canada is somewhat ahead of us in 

 dealing with the problem, and indeed, the mutual 

 fire protection associations of Quebec and the 

 scheme of government cooperation and education 

 there in effect, form a model which we may do well 

 to follow. 



