(Uinadidn Fonslri/ Jotinuil, June, 1U17 



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the Britisli auLhorities think Ihal this 

 is necessary, we can assume we are 

 'doing our bit.' There is a very 

 serious shortage of timber, accentuat- 

 ed by the submarine blockade and 

 all production work is being speeded 

 up. The forestry exponents arc using 

 their inlluence to sec that the govern- 

 ment takes up the question of re- 

 forestation as soon as possible, some 

 even advocating that this be com- 

 menced before the end of the war." 



"MON PREMIER LIVRE SUR 

 LA FORET." 



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To date, fourteen thousand copies 

 of this 32-page booklet, prepared by 

 the Canadian Forestry Association 

 for circulation in Quebec and in other 

 French speaking districts of the Dom- 

 inion, have been placed in the hands 

 of school children. 



As a means of assisting their educa- 

 tional campaigns, 4000 copies were 

 purchased (at printer's cost) by the 

 newly-formed Southern St. Lawrence 

 Forest Protective Association and 

 2500 copies by the St. Maurice For- 

 est Protective Association. 



REACHING TRAVELLERS 



On three of the Canadian railways, 

 the Canadian Forestry Journal is 

 now installed as part of the parlor 

 car reading equipment. Five copies 

 are now used on the Canadian Gov- 

 ernment Railways, nineteen copies 

 on the Grand Trunk and Grand 

 Trunk Pacihc, and the number re- 

 quired by the Canadian Northern is 

 yet to be reported. 



GRAIN MEN IN LUMBER LINE 

 The Grain Growers Grain Co., Ltd., 

 with headqifarters at Winnipeg, are 

 now building a sawmill on their 

 timber limits 60 miles east of Fort 

 George, B. C, on the Grand Trunk 

 Pacific Railway. The Company has 

 been conducting a large retail lumber 

 business for the past few years. 

 They now plan to manufacture their 

 own lumber and supply the farmers 



Photo by Joseph Boucher, Ottawa.. 

 A CURIOUS EXAMPLE OF A "WIND GRAFT" 



OF TWO ELMS. 



The elbow from the larger elm is firmly grafted 



to the neighbouring tree, the parent meanwhile 



being killed by lightning. 



direct. The new mill will cost about 

 3185,000 and will have a capacity of 

 twenty-five million feet per year. 



There is $500,000,000 invested in 

 United States lumber plants. 



"I want to assure you that our 

 Association is ready to co-operate 

 in any way you can suggest. While 

 the direct object of our Association 

 differs from yours, the work you are 

 doing must necessarily appeal to us." 

 Rev. T. J. Crowley, President, Sud- 

 bury District Game and Fish Pro- 

 tective Association, Copper Cliff, Ont. 



