NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION G9 



/The study of the last, the uses of the timber, has been one which is 

 interesting the trade generally. In connection with various mechanical and 

 chemical laboratories, mills, i'actories and railroads experiments are being 

 carried on to test the strength, durability and other important qualities of 

 wood not usually considered merchantable and to find what preservatives 

 can be used advantageously and economically. So much remains to be done 

 in connection with the many different industries using and depending upon 

 lumber that only a small proportion of the possible results have been 

 obtained. Other species just as fit have been substituted where more 

 valuable ones > had been previously used. 



Railroad and telephone companies have taken up the question of 

 timber preservatives extensively and as a result of the study of by-products 

 there are a great number of distilleries established and being established in 

 the different states in the hardwood belt. 



In Boston a wood pulp laboratory has been established which is now 

 making paper from almost everything, and doubtless as prices continue to 

 soar many other schemes to utilize hitherto unvalued species will be 

 developed, and the lumberman will be enabled to cut more timber off his 

 land and thus reach larger profits and make use of waste materials from his 

 mill. 



It is in the organization and management of forest lands that forestry 

 most intimately touches national life in general and lumbering in particular. 

 To insure that forests will be maintained where necessary as a protection 

 and that a sufficient supply of timber will always be present to support home 

 builders and a flourishing lumber industry it is necessary to protect it from 

 fire and rationally dispose of it as soon as it is mature or as soon as it can 

 be spared. 



Up to the present date fire protection has been the chief idea of the 

 United States, and as fire protection must be one of the first steps for 

 forestry preservation in New Brunswick, it may be interesting to note their 

 methods. 



Each reserve is managed as a separate unit from the central office at 

 Washington, and the forestry officials, supervisors, rangers, and guards, 

 though given wide authority, with corresponding responsibility, are 

 appointed by and directed by a code of instructions formulated by the head 

 office. All officials, excepting the forest guards, are civil service employees, 



