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Canadian Forestry Journal, August, 1917 



The small, apple-shaped fruits have 

 tempted many a stranger to a much- 

 regretted meal. As recently as the 

 summer of 1916 an officer of a Dutch 

 steamer had a narrow escape from 

 serious poisoning, emetics and stom- 

 ach pumps alone saving his life. 

 Some 32 years ago 54 members of the 

 crew of a German ship were taken to 

 the local hospital, all very sick from 

 having eaten the fruit of the Man- 

 zanillo. Five of this number died and 

 the rest after serious illness for several 

 weeks recovered. 



As is the case with the question of 

 the leaves and shade, there are many 

 accounts of the effect of the fruit. 

 To quote from one writer "A fish 

 which eats the fruit becomes infected, 



the gills becoming yellow and black, 

 and one who eats the fish in this state 

 is said to fall into a profound lethargy, 

 with a general relaxation of all the 

 limbs, according to the amount 

 eaten." 



The tree when cut exudes a quan- 

 tity of white, milky juice, in the same 

 manner as the common rubber-tree, 

 and to most persons this juice has the 

 same effect as our poison-ivy. How- 

 ever, if this acrid milky juice reaches 

 the delicate membrances of the eye, 

 temporary and often permanent blind- 

 ness is sure to follow. 



The Manzanillo is a native of the 

 West Indian Islands and is usually 

 found in moist situations. 



"Fifty Years'' or Five Hundred? 



Will Current Estimates of Forest Exhaustion 

 in Quebec be Permitted to Come True ? 



The value of Quebec's exports to 

 the United States last year, including 

 paper and manufactures of paper, 

 pulpwood, lumber, lath, shingles, 

 sulphate and sulphite pulp was 

 $16,264,382. 



That enormous sum showed an 

 increase of five million dollars over 

 1915. 



The sales of Quebec to Uncle Sam 

 last year included more than 212 

 million pounds of news print paper, 

 359,507 cords of pulpwood, rough, 

 peeled, and rossed, over 91 million 

 feet of lumber, rough and planed, 

 over 37 million laths, 162 million 

 pounds of mechanically ground wood 

 pulp, 130 million pounds of sulphate 

 pulp, 32 million pounds of sulphite 

 pulp. 



Such tremendous and increasing 

 pressure upon the forest materials of 

 Quebec cannot be withstood inde- 

 finitely unless some measure of 

 scientific forestry is given the right 

 of way in all woods operations. At 

 the recent session of the news print 

 and sulphite "probe", before Com- 

 missioner R. A. Pringle, K.C., state- 



ments were entered by several wit- 

 nesses, managers of pulp and paper 

 companies, that they were reckoning 

 upon the depletion of their limits in 

 periods ranging up to fifty years. 

 Some estimates are known to be 

 placed at twenty-five years. 



Is it conceivable that companies 

 with millions of dollars invested in an 

 immovable plant will publicly admit 

 their belief that the investment is 

 headed for the scrap pile and yet take 

 no measures to forestall the calamity. 

 No pulp mill, or large lumber mill, 

 is any more permanent than its limits. 

 It is an anchored investment. If the 

 wood supply is insufficient or too 

 distant, there is no recourse other 

 than insolvency. 



It is not too late to introduce into 

 the woods operations some degree of 

 scientific method, such as, curiously 

 enough, most managements are glad 

 to apply to the industrial super- 

 structure without much thought to 

 the foundation of the log supply. 



The Quebec lumber and paper 

 companies cannot afford to have some 



