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quire to have grey hairs, he will not 

 be any good then. He will be afraid 

 of going into the woods, his rheuma- 

 tism will prevent him from plodding 

 all over the works. A forester if given 

 a chance, if employed for the work for 

 which he has trained himself will 

 certainly do good. 



Inventoring Timber 

 The next move is to make an in- 

 ventory of your timberlands. How 

 can you work without this data? 

 You keep a strict account of your 

 stocks of sulphur, of coal, of china 

 clay, of colors; why should you not 

 do the same with your forest? The 

 operations to be conducted in an 

 efficient manner must be directed by 

 the head office according to a work- 

 ing plan and not be carried in a hap- 

 hazard way as done now. The tim- 

 ber shoidd be cut not only on one 

 river, with the chances of jamming, 

 but on different streams and on sev- 

 eral grounds so as to equalize the 

 cost price, instead of allowing it to 

 jump every year. The improve- 

 ments to be made in the way of port- 

 age roads, of depots, of river clean- 

 ing, of dams, should be known in 

 advance and a fixed budget prepared 

 every year for the carrying of this 

 class of work. 



Growth Studies 

 Studies should be made of the rate 

 of growth of the various species found 

 on your timberlands; so as to know^ 

 how they should be cut. Investiga- 

 tions of the old lumbered tracts should 

 also be conducted so as to find what 

 have been the results of the lumbering 

 as it was done then. A good deal 

 could be learned this way which 

 would help greatly for drafting plans 

 of lumbering on similar areas. We 

 have begun this work in a few locali- 

 ties, but the province is too large and 

 the interested should have the same 

 studies made for their own benefit. 



Are Our Mills 'Limit Poor'? 

 Reforestation is another subject 

 that will require to be looked after. 

 With the increasing cost of labor 

 and supplies, it will become more and 

 more necessary to have a larger yield 

 of raw material per unit of surface; 



instead of culling on an average 2,(m) 

 feet per acre; it will be far more 

 economical to cut in 30-40 years 

 from now 5,000 to 10,000 feet per 

 acre. I claim that most of the paper 

 men are limit poor, as a mill pro- 

 ducing 100 tons per day would only 

 require a forest area of 200,000 acres, 

 of 500 square miles, if same was man- 

 aged to produce wood properly. What 

 an enormous capital is carried use- 

 lessly by the companies on account 

 of the fact that their holdings are too 

 poor in timber. I calculate that by 

 adding $1.00 more to the cost price 

 of your wood you could reforest 

 enough land each year to insure yoir 

 a permanent supply for the future. 

 Naturally the question of time will 

 have to be considered here, but in 

 your plan you can take care of this 

 matter. 



How To Use Hardwoods 

 The utilization of the hardwoods is 

 another subject that should be taken 

 into consideration. It may be neces- 

 sary to modify the present methods 

 of lumbering in order to assure a 

 more complete utihzation of all the 

 trees now found on the timber limits 

 but this problem requires an im- 

 mediate study, and we should all 

 unite to find the solution. 



BURNING WEEDS BY OIL SPRAY 



To eliminate growing vegetation 

 from the tracks of the Spokane, Port- 

 land, and Seattle Railway during the 

 past summer, an old oil-burning loco- 

 motive was equipped with an in- 

 cinerator and dispatched over the 

 line. The apparatus was designed 

 by the mechanical department of the 

 road and performed efficiently when 

 placed in operation. Fuel oil and 

 steam to atomize it is carried through 

 pipes to a series of six burners mount- 

 ed a few inches above the rails and 

 just ahead of the leading pony truck. 

 They are arranged in a sheet-iron box 

 that is filled with crushed firebrick 

 and are similar to large blowtorches. 

 To deflect the heat against the road- 

 bed, a large shield, supplied with a 

 water pan, is attached with stay rods 

 to the front of the locomotive and 

 supported close to the track. Back 



