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Canadian Forestry Journal, May, 1917 



Federal Gov't Assists in Fight Against 

 White Pine Menace 



Hon. Martin Burrell, Federal Min- 

 ister of Agriculture, has decided upon 

 a plan of co-operation with the prov- 

 inces for checking the white pine 

 disease of blister rust which is bound 

 to prove of utmost advantage. 



Representations as to the serious- 

 ness of the blister disease in Eastern 

 Canada were made to the Minister 

 by the Canadian Forestry Associa- 

 tion, Commission of Conservation, 

 and by pathologists of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. The Minister 

 gave the cjuestion prompt and thor- 

 ough consideration and arrived at a 

 decision which every friend of forest 

 conservation in Canada will recognize 

 as practical and praiseworthy. 



The Minister will ask Parliament 

 this month to sanction an expendi- 

 ture, understood to be above $50,000, 

 in order to assist the provinces in 

 locating infections. This involves a 

 great amount of work in scouting, 

 with constant travel, and a large 

 staff of inspectors. ' Conferences with 

 the Provincial departments of Lands 

 and Forests have resulted in an agree- 

 ment that the provinces should en- 

 gage as many men as will be necessary 

 for the task and pay their salaries. 

 The Dominion appropriation will 

 meet the travelling expenses, which 

 makes the division of cost about 

 ecjual. The responsibility for results 

 and authority in directing the work 

 is left with the Provinces. 



Mr. W. A. McCubbin, who has 

 been engaged on pine blister work in 

 the Niagara Peninsula for more than 

 a year will take general supervision 

 of the work on behalf of the Depart- 

 mentof Agriculture, visiting Ontario, 

 Quebec and New Brunswick. 



With this plan in operation, there 

 should be by the Fall a fund of in- 

 formation as to the districts affected 

 by the white pine disease, and such 

 knowledge will be a guide to the prov- 

 incesand Dominion in future action. 



THE PATRIOT'S VIEWPOINT 



Ontario, Feb. 9, 1917. 

 Canadian Forestry Association: — 



Enclosed fmd our checiue for five 

 dollars, Contributing Membership 

 Fee, to help the spread of information 

 how to preserve our forests and make 

 good our waste. E. D. S. 



Prof. W. N. Millar, of the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto Forest School has 

 arranged to enter the service of the 

 United States Army of which he is a 

 reservist and will leave Toronto about 

 the end of May. 



Mr. R. L. Seaborne, Manager of 

 the newly formed Laurentian Forest 

 Protective Association, has had valu- 

 able experience as an inspector of 

 the St. Maurice Forest Protective 

 Association. 



T. B. Molloy, assistant super- 

 intendent of insurance, Winnipeg, 

 has assumed charge of the fire pre- 

 vention branch and is busily occupied 

 in organizing the municipal officials 

 who will, under the new law, report 

 all conflagrations, with causes, dam- 

 age, etc., to the department at Winni- 

 peg. 



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