18 The Canadian Forestry Journal. 



(6) In cutting down the trees the stumps left should not be 

 more than 18 inches high. 



(7) The trees should be cut down with a saw. 



(8) All parts exceeding 4 inches in diameter of trees cut down 

 should be removed by the permittee, and this should be 

 done as the cutting progresses. 



(9) Brush should be cut so as to lie flat on the ground except- 

 ing along the roads where it should be piled and burned 

 under the immediate supervision of the Department. 



(10) Any unmarked trees cut down on account of the lodging 

 of the larger trees in felling should be piled by themselves 

 separately from the other logs, and should be considered 

 the property of the Department to be afterwards 

 disposed of, either to the permittee or others as con- 

 sidered best. 



(1 1) The dues on timber removed should be the same as those 

 demanded of settlers. 



(12) Lumber should be sold only to bona fide occupants of 

 homesteads, or for the purpose of erecting churches and 

 schools in rural districts. 



(13) Any lumber obtained from a permittee and afterwards 

 sold or offered for sale should be seized by the Depart- 

 ment, i 



(14) No settler should be permitted to receive from the mil 

 in any one year more than 10,000 feet of lumber. 



(15) The price of lumber at the mill should be fixed period- 

 ically by the Department. 



(16) Settlers should be permitted to draw out their lumber 

 with their own teams. 



(17) Permittees should be required to keep a mill book in 

 which should be recorded all sales, to whom made, 

 quantity sold, and price charged. 



The Department has this scheme of treating the forest 

 already under operation. A sawmill operating in the Cypress 

 Hills was last fall put under such restrictions, partly as an 

 experiment, and I am glad to be able to report that the experi- 

 ment is apparently a success. The owner of this mill had applied 

 for a tract of spruce timber three-fourths of a mile square. The 

 Department stated the restrictions. They were accepted. 

 Assistant Inspector Dickson marked the trees to be cut, and 

 the work of cutting began. The forest ranger of the Cypress 

 Hills Reserve who has the work under his supervision,, writing 

 on January 22, 1909, reports as follows : "I have been down to the 

 Gray burn mill for a few days and was all through the bush where 

 they are cutting. They are keeping very close to the marked 

 trees. I told them to get the brush piled along the trails and to 



