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Canadian Forestry Journal, June, 1917 



The superior staff consists of the 

 Chief Inspector of Forestry and two 

 foresters as Assistant Inspectors, in 

 addition to a trained foreman in 

 charge of the chief planting and for- 

 est stations. 



Schemes too Radical 

 The work can only be increased 

 when the funds are increased, which 

 is unlikely at present. The start 

 already made, in addition to break- 

 ing the ice for the British Isles, can- 

 not help but be of great effect in in- 

 fluencing the standard of forestry 

 practised by land owners and (by 

 showing results) in leading to the 

 further state purchase of land for 

 forest planting. The propaganda 

 work carried on in Great Britain has 

 not been of the proper type. The 

 schemes proposed have been too 

 sweeping and have frightened govern- 

 ments, land owners and tax payers 

 alike. The published details, by be- 

 ing interwoven with plans for the 

 utilization of the unemployed and 

 by providing for the planting of areas 

 not likely to produce timber at a 

 profit, and by sweeping away grazing 

 rights and moor lands at a stroke 

 have earned for forest planting more 

 opponents than friends. The in- 

 dustrial side of the cjuestion does not 

 appear to have been sufficiently treat- 

 ed. It has not been made sufficiently 

 clear, in a local manner, how the 

 existence of even small forest areas 

 would benefit towns and industries. 

 Though the utilization of home re- 

 sources is a burning topic in Britain, 

 but little has been said of the present 

 wasted forest opportunity, bound to 

 continue so long as the planted and 

 managed forests of France supply pit 

 props to the coal mines lying beneath 

 the denuded hills and valleys of Wales. 



CANOES STAMPED FROM 

 VENEER 



A new use for wood has been de- 

 veloped in Michigan in the making 

 of canoes by a new system. The new 

 idea is the stamping out of the 

 finished canoe, from veneer, instead 

 of the old-fashioned manner of build- 

 ing up a canoe from ribs of prepared 

 wood, and the cutting of the thwarts 



and gunwales, and the covering of 

 the whole with canvas. 



No wonder newsprint is scarce. 

 There are 2,580 daily newspapers in 

 the United States. Over 800 have 

 gone out of business since the rise 

 in paper prices began. 



4. — 



I HANDBOOK OF TREES OF THE 

 NORTHERN STATES AND CANADA 



By Romeyn B. Hough. 



Is photo-descriptive of the leaves, fruits, barks, 

 branchlets, etc., and shows them all with the 

 vividness of reality. Natural sizes ingeniously 

 indicated. Distributions shown by maps. Wood 

 structures by photo-micrographs. 



"With it one wholly unfamiliar with botany can 

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"The most ideal Handbook I have seen." — 

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"The most valuable guide to the subjects ever 

 written." — Springfield Republican. 



AMERICAN WOODS 



By Romeyn B. Hough. 



Illustrated by actual specimens, showing three 

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