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than those on the plains, and indeed 

 equal to a good average year's crop 

 on the plains. It is because of this 

 that most of these industrious colon- 

 ists are now safe beyond where famine 

 or want looks them in the face, and 

 most of them will be able to begin to 

 pay back what was lent them to pro- 

 vide them with food while they broke 

 up their little farms. 



The discouraging feature for us in 

 the University at present is that we 

 haven't a single forestry professor yet, 

 and our forestry students are rapidly 

 approaching their third year. 



Our school work is getting along 



nicely. Our Department has fallen 

 heir to the greater part of the scienti- 

 fic outfit of the School of Medicine, 

 which has moved from here to 

 Tsinanfu, under this Rockefeller ar- 

 rangement, so that now we are well 

 equipped for biology, chemistry and 

 physics. We are also giving the 

 students pretty good training in prac- 

 tical nursery work, and they are hav- 

 ing some forestry in classroom by our 

 professors in Agriculture. But the 

 time has come when we must have 

 them in the hands of actual foresters. 



JOSEPH BAILIE. 



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I Paper Industry no Stronger than Forest Foundation I 



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From ''Financial Post."' 



"The war — and attendant condi- 

 tions-^has given to the Canadian 

 pulp and paper trade that impetus 

 which was required to put this coun- 

 try in a very strong position in world 

 markets. This impetus, resulting in 

 a great development of output, should 

 carry the industry through many of 

 the adjustments which will take place 

 with the end of the war. 



It remains to be seen what part 

 Europe may again be able to play 

 in the world market when normal 

 shipping conditions return. There 

 are reports that Sweden and Norway 

 have vast accumulations of pulp 

 wood products awaiting a chance to 

 market them in a normal manner. 

 At the same time these countries are 

 increasing their shipping facilities in 

 a manner which indicates that they 

 will become aggressive competitors in 

 water borne commerce and will be 

 in a position to market their own 

 products to advantage. Then there 

 is another potential competitor — 

 Russia. The future alone can reveal 

 what the development of the resources 

 of that little-known country may 

 mean, but it is safe to assume that 

 there will be development after a 

 war which has served to arouse a 

 nation, fabulously rich, in respect to 

 natural resources. Significant is an 



article which recently appeared in 

 the Russian section of the London 

 Times regarding progress on the con- 

 struction of the new Murman Rail- 

 way. In connection with the pro- 

 ject, the vice-minister of agriculture, 

 makes a statement respecting the 

 resources of the region to be opened 

 up in which special reference is made 

 to wood pulp: — 



What of Russia"^ 



The vast timber areas (yew and 

 pine) stretch for hundreds of square 

 versts. These forest resources have 

 been utilized to an insignificant ex- 

 tent. The northern governments 

 abound in mountain streams, which, 

 with their considerable incline, pro- 

 vide a multitude of waterfalls to be 

 utilized for power for sawmills and 

 wood-working factories. There are 

 sawmills at Keret and some other 

 settlements, but their number is very 

 small. The extensive system of rivers 

 and streams also affords opportunity 

 to adopt the cheapest method of 

 transporting timber— rafting it along 

 these waterways. There is projected 

 the construction of other more im- 

 proved means of communication, 

 which will also be of service to the 

 timber industry. The Department 

 of Agriculture proposes to afford the 



