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Canadian Forcstrij Journal, May, 1917 



There is in addition to the above 

 583,138 cords of spruce and fir pulp, 

 60,901 cords of poplar pulp, 84,346 

 cords of white birch spool wood, 

 giving a total of 728,385 cords, which, 

 assuming that two cords will equal 

 one thousand board feet, will be 

 equivalent to 364,192 thousand board 

 feet, making a grand total of 811,064 

 thousand boarct feet on the 282,064 

 acres of timber land, or an average of 

 2900 feet per acre. 



Fire Guarding Reforms 



The Canadian Forestry Association 

 is confident that the new Government 

 of the province will not only give to 

 the Forest Survey ample support, but 

 will lose no time in giving effect to the 



most obvious and pressing require- 

 ment of adeciuate fire protection. To 

 keep fire out of timberlands is the 

 starting point of any forestry policy 

 and by the aid of skilled organization 

 can relieve New Brunswick of further 

 responsibility for gross waste in a 

 highly valuable asset. New Bruns- 

 wick's present fire protection arrange- 

 ments as applied to the forests are 

 out-of-date and costly. Given a 

 forestry department centralizing con- 

 trol of the forest survey, timber sales, 

 fire protection and some measure of 

 forestry practice as conditions require 

 and from the first year's operations 

 the province will begin to reap rich 

 dividends. 



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HON. JULES ALLARD, MINISTER OF LANDS AND FORESTS, QUEBEC, 



who has given excellent support to the forest protection cause. By the formation 

 the Laurentian Forest Protective .\ssociation. Quebec has row about 75,000 square . 

 miles of its best timber under modern systems of fire patrol. 



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