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Canadian Forestry Journal, November, 1917 



of socks to the men of the forestry 

 battalions overseas before Christmas, 

 and as the need for socks is reported 

 to be far beyond the supply, this very 

 practical form of Christmas remem- 

 brance from Canada has been pro- 

 posed. 



Gifts of any amount, large or small, 



will be received by Mr. R. G. Cam- 

 eron, Hon. -Treasurer of the Can- 

 adian Lumbermen's Association, Cas- 

 tle Building, Ottawa. 



As the bulletin rightly says: "The 

 Canadian overseas with an axe in his 

 hand is doing his bit to win the war." 



Looking after the Catting in KB. 



The following interview recently 

 appeared in the Gleaner of Frederic- 

 ton, N.B.: 



"This is a year of reorganization 

 and the application of scientific 

 method all over the world. Factories 

 and farms, railroads and banks, 

 mines and fisheries have had to get 

 into battalion formation and serve 

 the highest requirements of the 

 State. What works during war will 

 continue into peace. In the keen in- 

 ternational contest for trade, only a 

 prompt application by the provincial 

 government of the policy of forest 

 organization and economy can give 

 this province the great advantages 

 to which its wood supplies and water 

 powrrs entitle it. Other countries 

 have read the signs of the times and 

 are harnessing their forests to pro- 

 gressive ideas of protection and 

 operation. Competition will compel 

 action eventually. To act to-day is 

 a matter of business strategy and 

 self preservation. 



Lumbering for all Time 



"New Brunswick is essentially a 

 greater lumbering province, not only 

 for to-day but for all time to come. 

 Lumbering is not a way station to 

 agriculture except where the trees 

 grow on agricultural soils. Seventy 

 per cent, of New Brunswick is per- 

 manently unfitted for the plow. It 

 will not pay the settler his salt. Ob- 

 viously the laws of good provincial 

 housekeeping require that not only 

 the tillable but the untillable areas 

 shall render to the public every dol- 

 lar of profit of which they are cap- 

 able." 



Mr. Black stated that two thirds 



of Ontario and a larger percentage of 

 Quebec must always be withheld from 

 agriculture because of soil, topo- 

 graphic conditions, or climate. The 

 problem facing all governments was 

 how to keep out fire from the only 

 crop these lands would produce, and 

 how to regulate logging operations 

 so that the supply of trees would 

 suffer no diminution through all time 

 to come. 



Too Much Tree Waste 



"The present methods of unsuper- 

 vised cutting have brought about a 

 deteriorating forest. From 20 to 30 

 per cent, of the trees in a given 

 area is left unused, whereas the 

 United States National Forests have 

 reduced this waste to 10 per cent. 

 Except with very few companies in 

 Canada reproduction is left more or 

 less to chance and the chance plays 

 continuously against us. With skilled 

 supervision of the cutting, which is 

 mostly in the hands of jobbers, the 

 present rapid deterioration of tim- 

 ber areas can be arrested and the 

 chief foundation of an enormous in- 

 dustry and of provincial revenues 

 made secure for all time. 



"You can burn a candle at both 

 ends but not for long. The forests 

 of Canada are not more than one 

 quarter as extensive as those of the 

 United States, which in turn are 

 outclassed by Russia. Forests can- 

 not survive the double attack of 

 unregulated axe and flame. If New 

 Brunswick's net-work of forest in- 

 dustries is to^ be maintained and 

 developed, the pillaging of the raw 

 materials by fire must be stopped, 

 and stopped at once." 



