Forestry in Iiastcrn Canada 59 



reports which are made out and sent regularly to the company's 

 offices. 



This system of rules and inspection was tried for the first 

 time in the season of 1908, and has proved quite successful. 

 Most of the jobbers and their men admitted the unnecessary 

 waste and recognized the need and advantage of conservative 

 lumbering. Only a few men have disregarded these rules. A 

 determination on the part of the manager to enforce these re- 

 gulations will compel these men to do the work properly or quit. 



The inspectors are American men with college training who 

 have studied or expect to study technical forestry. Each one 

 has a French assistant who acts as an interpreter and helps in 

 other ways. Both live in a log cabin built for them by the 

 company. They cook their own meals when working near their 

 cabin ; otherwise they eat and sleep with the logging crews. A 

 suggested list of provisions for these two men on one week's 

 trip is as follows : 



Bacon 3 Ibs. 



Salt Pork 1 Ib. 



Flour 4 Ibs. 



Beans 2 Ibs. 



Cornmeal 2 Ibs. 



Oatmeal 2 Ibs. 



Rice 2 Ibs. 



Cheese 3 Ibs. 



Sugar '..... 2 Ibs. 



Salt % Ib. 



Coffee. ... 1/2 Ib., or tea. % Ib. 



Molasses 1 pint. 



Soap 1 bar. 



Matches 1 box. 



Each inspector has in his charge about ten camps with 

 twenty or more cutting crews. The camps are usually less than 

 a mile apart. 



Besides the supervision of the logging camps, the inspectors 

 make growth studies, using the complete stem analysis method. 

 During the cutting season of 1908, about 1,000 trees were ana- 

 lyzed. These included White Spruce, Black Spruce, Balsam 

 Fir, Jack Pine, Red Pine and Tamarack. No representative 

 tables, showing the growth of these species, have as yet been 

 worked out. Judging from the figures already obtained, White 

 Spruce requires about twelve years to grow one inch and the 

 Balsam Fir about ten years. These studies will be continued 

 each year and in time, growth tables will be made. 



