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Canadian Forestry Journal, November. 1917 



''Manitoba a Forest Province'' 



Manitoba, a province naturally 

 well endowed with ext'ensive forests 

 in its northern sections where farm- 

 ing will never play a large part, shows 

 a total revenue of $12,000 yearly 

 for the Dominion Forestry Branch, 

 as against $100,000 spent by the 

 Branch on the necessary work of fire 

 protection, and improvements. 



Sweden takes for the public treas- 

 ury from its forests $5,000,000 gross 

 revenue a year, $3,000,000 of which 

 is net revenue. 



As to the analogy between con- 

 ditions in Manitoba and Sweden, we 

 reproduce the following from "Mani- 

 toba, A Forest Province," by R. H. 

 Campbell, Director of Forestry: — 



"Sweden has probably the advantage of Manitoba in having better 

 drainage in some of the northern areas and in having a more extended sea 

 coast, with quicker and cheaper access to long estabhshed markets, but I 

 cannot see that other conditions exist that give Sweden an advantage over 

 Manitoba if the forest areas were in as good condition. This they are not 

 at present, nor will they be for a long time to come, and it will require a large 

 expenditure on protection and improvements \nthout regard to revenue 

 during that time, to bring the forests into good condition and to produce a 

 revenue that will more than offset the expenditure. Under the administra- 

 tion of the federal government the forests have been allowed to get into such 

 an unsatisfactory condition and the federal government should make the 

 necessary' expenditure from its large revenues to place such a great natural 

 resource, and so important to the prosperity of the province and of the whole 

 country, in a condition of permanent security and producing power so that 

 it may regular'y and continuously produce a revenue for the State and the 

 raw material for industries. 



Forest Nurserp Plans Great Extensions 



During the past year, more than 

 500,000 forest tree seedlings have 

 been shipped from the Quebec forest 

 nursery at Berthierville, P.Q. The 

 provincial forester, G. C. Piche, re- 

 ports that of these, nearly 200,000 

 were white pine, 180,000 Norway 

 spruce, 82,000 Scotch pine, 20,000 

 Douglas fir, 8,000 red pine, 7,000 

 white spruce, and 6,000 tamarack, 

 the balance being made up of rela- 

 tively small numbers of other species, 

 mostly hardwoods, to supply the de- 

 mands of farmers. The great bulk 

 of the demand was, however, for the 

 reforestation of burned-over non- 

 agricultural lands. The Laurentide 

 Company, Limited, and the Riordan 

 Pulp and Paper Co. were heavy pur- 

 chasers of plant material from the 



provincial nursery, in addition to 

 supplies secured from their own nurs- 

 eries. The Perthuis seigniory also 

 has purchased a large number of 

 small trees from Berthierville annual- 

 ly during the past seven years. 



To date, the provincial nursery 

 has shipped a total of more than 1,- 

 500,000 trees since its inception; of 

 these, more than half have been 

 supplied during the past two years. 

 The demand for planting stock has 

 become so insistent that the pro- 

 vincial forester announces the pro- 

 posed extension of the capacity of 

 the Berthierville nursery to 3,000,000 

 seedlings annually. Of these, the 

 majority will be Norway spruce, 

 which is believed to be the most suit- 

 able for pulpwood production. — C. L. 

 in ''Conservation." 



