60 Forest Club Annual 



Scaling is done at the landing places by men hired and paid 

 by the company. The assistant sealer measures and stamps the 

 logs and calls out the diameter to the head sealer who checks 

 and records the logs on proper sheets. 



At some time in May, after the ice has broken up and the 

 melting snow has caused the water in the lakes and streams to 

 rise, the logs are rolled into the water and driven down with 

 the current. This work usually lasts until July when low water 

 in the rapids stops further driving. 



There is an excellent opportunity, to practice good forestry 

 methods in eastern Canada, especially if certain defects in the 

 government regulations are corrected. The limit holders could 

 do a great deal more in the way of improvement if they were 

 certain that no part of the limit would be withdrawn on short 

 notice. Especially after certain elections, politicians in Canada 

 have a system of dealing out lots from the forest limits to 

 settlers, for so-called agricultural purposes. They may very 

 appropriately be called political lots. In a majority of cases, 

 these areas are not fit for agriculture, and the prospective settler 

 really wants the lot for the timber that is on it. Upon appli- 

 cation for such a lot, the license holder is notified to abandon 

 the same by the first of May. He has a right to cut all the 

 timber on it, before this time, to the diameter limit prescribed 

 by the government. But the politician's favorite, who wants 

 the timber, makes his application after the logging operations 

 have been finished and the limit holder has no chance to do 

 any cutting. This is very discouraging to the license holders 

 and, if it happens too often, they have no desire to improve their 

 methods. There is no classification of lands and the officials 

 in charge are usually quite ignorant as to whether a certain 

 portion of land is fit for agriculture or not. It is hoped that 

 this troublesome arrangement will soon be corrected. 



