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Canadian Forestry Journal, July, 1917 



"The question of provincial owner- 

 ship of the forests is only distantly 

 related to the question of conserva- 

 tion. The people who lose by the 

 waste of Alberta's forests are the 

 people not of Quebec but of Alberta. 

 All the profits from conservation go 

 likewise to Alberta. The Dominion 

 Forestry Branch, now administering 

 the reserves of Alberta at a cost of 

 $215,000 annually, get back only a 

 part as revenues. The total revenues 

 of the Dominion Government from 

 all sources connected with the prairie 

 forests fall short by about $200,000 

 of what is expended by the Dominion 

 in their protection from fire and in 

 forestry development. Whoever 



owns and administers the Alberta 

 forests carries them as a heavy finan- 

 cial liability for long years to come. 

 This is due to the fact that fire de- 

 struction has been so excessive in 

 times past that instead of 'cashing 

 in' on present supplies of timber, the 

 forests of Alberta must be nursed 

 back to normal before they can take 

 care of the future wood requirements 

 of the people, and become equal to 

 their function as guardians and regu- 

 lators of stream flow." 



LIEUT. BIGWOOD KILLED 



A cable despatch received by Mr. 

 \V. E. Bigwood, of Graves, Bigwood 

 & Co., (lumbermen) Toronto, on 

 June 28, from the British War Office, 

 stated that his son, Flight-Lieut. 

 Paul Herrick Bigwood, of the Royal 

 Flying Corps, has been killed in 

 action in France. Lieut. Bigwood 

 went overseas with an infantry bat- 

 talion and later was transferred to 

 the Royal Flying Corps, serving in 

 France as an aviator only a short 

 time. He was twenty-one years oi 

 age. 



RIFLE STOCKS FOR THE WAR 



The New England Westinghouse 

 Company, Meridan, Conn., which 

 has a contract of 1,000,000 rifles 

 awarded by the Russian Government, 

 on which it has been working for 

 more than a year, is now producing 

 500 weapons daily with 1,600 hands 

 employed. The company is now in- 



creasing its output rapidly and ex- 

 pects soon to be turning out 1,000 

 rifles daily. The present consump- 

 tion of hardwood lumber for stocks 

 alone is approximately 3,500 feet 

 daily. 



ABOUT LOG RULES 



The following was contained in a 

 letter from Sgt. A. V. Gilbert of the 

 Canadian Forestry Corps in England: 



'Tt is interesting to note here some 

 points about board foot log rules. 

 The Doyle & Quebec rules are com- 

 monly used in Canada. It is aston- 

 ishing that the Doyle rule which gives 

 ridiculous results for very small and 

 very large logs should be in such 

 general use in Canada. The large 

 percentage of small logs at our opera- 

 tions in Britain emphasizes the fact 

 that this rule should not be used by 

 this Corps in any calculations. The 

 Quebec Rule gives larger results than 

 the Doyle but not so large as the 

 Maine Rule, and since the latter, as 

 we have shown, does not give large 

 enough results for the class of ma- 

 terial we are turning out it is clear 

 that in any calculations it should be 

 used in preference to either Quebec 

 or Doyle Rule.'" 



FRANCE CALLS FOR FORESTERS 



In announcing the formation of 

 forestry battalions to go to France 

 and aid in supplying trench timbers, 

 railroad ties, mine props, cordwood, 

 etc., the United States military head- 

 quarters makes the following com- 

 ment: 



"The French forests have been 

 managed for many years with great 

 care and skill. It is the view of the 

 Government forestry officials that 

 if the American forest regiment is to 

 do creditable work it must be able 

 not only to cut and manufacture the 

 timber with high efficiency but also 

 to avoid waste and leave the forests 

 in good shape for future production. 

 This is the reason for selecting main- 

 ly trained foresters as officers." 



The Riordon Pulp and Paper Com- 

 pany will plant about 250,000 trees 

 this year near St. Jovite, P. Q. 



