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Canadian Forestry Journal, April-May, 1914 



MAPLE SUGAR MAKERS WIN. 



YUKON TIMBER PROTECTION. 



At the annual meeting of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association a resolution was 

 passed supporting the effort of the maple 

 sugar makers to have a law enacted pro- 

 hibiting the selling of adulterated maple 

 sugar and syrup. The ground taken by 

 the Association was that owing to the 

 lack of remuneration in the business, if 

 adulteration was allowed, farmers would 

 clear of maple trees land that was not 

 fit for anything else and that land would 

 become permanently unproductive. That 

 this was actually taking jilace is seen from 

 an extract from a letter written by one of 

 the leading bankers of the Eastern Town- 

 ships of Quebec. He writes: 'In driving 

 around the country I have noticed that 

 not a few maple groves, which used to 

 produce a considerable amount of sugar, 

 have been cut down for fire wood. It 

 seems to me a most foolish thing to do. ' 



Not only was there adulteration, but 

 sugars and syrups innocent of any maple 

 sap were i)ut up in such a way as to con- 

 vey the impression that the pure maple 

 })roduct was being sold. The argument of 

 those who sold these adulterated and imi- 

 tation articles was that they were com- 

 posed of ingredients not harmful to those 

 who used them as food. After a hard 

 fight, however, the maple sugar makers 

 won their point, and a new law governing 

 this matter, passed at this session of Par- 

 liament, jjrohibits the use of the word 

 ' maple ' on any food products bearing a 

 resemblance to maple sugar, or maple 

 syrup, unless the same are produced wholly 

 from sap of the maple tree. Maple sugar 

 and maple syrup in Canada now stand on 

 the same basis as butter and honey. They 

 must be pure, or the seller is liable to a 

 haevy fine. 



The production of maple sugar is now 

 valued at a little over $2,000,000 per year, 

 and friends of the industry predict that it 

 will now rise, in a few years, to $7,000,000 

 or $8,000,000. Maple groves, instead of 

 being cut down, will be protected, and 

 new groves will be developed in wood 

 lots, or even set out again on abandoned, 

 or partly abandoned, farms. 



FOREST PRODUCTS OF CANADA, 1912. 



The Dominion Forestry Branch has issued 

 Bulletin 42, Forest Products of Canada, 

 1912, by R. G. Lewis, B.Se.F. This is a col- 

 lection of bulletins 38, 39 and 40 for con- 

 venience and covers the production in Can- 

 ada in 1912 of lumber, square timber, lath, 

 Bhingles, pulpwood, poles and railway ties. 



Persons interested may receive copies free 

 upon applying to the Director of Forestry, 

 Department of the Interior, Ottawa. 



A member writing from the Yukon 

 says: 'I know of no other place in Canada 

 where our limited area of timber should 

 be so zealously guarded as in the Yukon. 

 We have many uses for wood here, where- 

 as it is not so necessary in other parts of 

 Canada. We must depend entirely upon it 

 for fuel, and we cannot import timber for 

 mining purposes, as it would be too ex- 

 pensive, and we would have to let low 

 grade mines remain undeveloped. Not- 

 withstanding these facts, our timber land 

 is burnt over and thousands of cords des- 

 troyed every year. Most of this destruc- 

 tion could be avoided. The fires mostly 

 occur along the Yukon Valley, on account 

 of people making their way into the in- 

 terior in small boats. They land on the 

 bank of the river to cook their food. After 

 this is done they return to their boats, 

 leaving the fires to go out or to ignite the 

 nearby woods, just as may happen. This 

 could be stopped by increasing the Mount- 

 ed Police patrol, and this should be done 

 as early as possible, as we expect large 

 travel to the new gold strikes during 

 1914.' 



LOWER OTTAWA FOREST PROTEC- 

 TIVE ASSOCIATION. 



The organization for protecting in a co- 

 operative way the forests on the Nation, 

 Lievre, Rouge and Gatineau rivers, the 

 formation of which was noted last month, 

 has now been completed. A charter has 

 been obtained from Quebec. The officers 

 are: President, Hon. W. C. Edwards; 

 Vice-President, Mr. Ward C. Hughson; 

 Directors, Messrs. R. M. Kenny, George 

 Millen, and J. B. White; Secretary, Mr. 

 Frank Hawkins; Chief Fire Inspector, Mr. 

 Arthur H. Graham. The Secretary 's of- 

 fice is at 19 Castle Building, Ottawa. 



Although it was late in the year before 

 the charter was received, the officers im- 

 mediately set to work and placed a force 

 of about forty men under the Chief Fire 

 Inspector. He immediately proceeded to 

 the woods, where some spring fires were 

 already reported, and though with very 

 little equipment and with no opportunity 

 to cut trails or erect telephone lines, is at 

 present doing what can be done to combat 

 the fires. 



OIL FUEL FOR LOCOMOTIVES. 



The use of oil fuel for locomotives was 

 begun in the United States in 1900, now oil 

 burning locomotives are operated exclu- 

 sively upon 20,910 miles of railway in the 

 United States and 587 miles in Canada; 

 and in conjunction with coal burners on an 

 additional 4,720 miles in the United States. 



