Recent Publications 



Care of the Woodlot. by B. H. Morton, 

 B.Si'.F. This is Circular" No. 10 of the 

 For«>stry Branch, I>opartnieiit of the In- 

 terior. It may be had free by those in- 

 terested upon application to the Director of 

 Forestry. Dept. of the Interior, Ottawa. 

 This (in-ular of sixteen pages is intended to 

 be of a pojiuiar character, so that the owner 

 of a woodlot may gain the necessary in- 

 formation upon M'hich to proceed to improve 

 the same. Information from the Depart- 

 ment is to the etVect that it has also proved 

 l)opular. requests for it ha\iiig been very 



wind. Next it takes up improvement cut- 

 ting and thinning. The fullest section is 

 that on Keproduction, which deals with 

 natural seeding, artificial seeding, disad- 

 vantages of seeding, ])lanting, and sprout or 

 coppice method, and adds a table of quanti- 

 ties and distances to show how nuich >eed 

 and how many plants are reipiired per acre 

 when artificial reproduction is followed. 

 Those of our members who are contemplat- 

 ing improving their woodlots, or who would 

 like to place something of a brief and 

 popular character in the hamls of those who 



The Bad Results of Grazing. 



In the foreground of the picture a wire fence has been erected. The one side has 

 been grazed clean, while on the other ungra/.ed side the good reproduction to be noted 

 further back has sprung up. — From Care of the Woodlot. 



numerous. It is the first publication of the 

 kind issued by the Dominion Forestry 

 Branch dealing with the care of wood lots 

 in eastern Canada, all the similar publica- 

 tions previously issued by the branch having 

 dealt with western and prairie conditions. 

 The constantly increasing demand from 

 eastern Canada, particularly the Maritime 

 Provinces, rendered necessary the issue of a 

 publication dealing with conditions where 

 the rainfall is much greater than in the 

 prairies. The writer is ^Mr. B. R. Morton, 

 who is the officer in the Forestry Branch in 

 charge of farm forestry and woodlots in 

 eastern Canada. The circular deals, first, 

 with Protection from grazing, fires and 



should be improving their wooillots, should 

 send for copies of this circular. 



The Province of Ontario has issued a 

 pamphlet liy Mr. F. J. Zavitz, Provincial 

 Forester, Parliament Buildings, Toronto, 

 which has already gone through two edi- 

 tions, and this is available for citizens of 

 Ontario, but not for the other provinces. 



Wood I'sinff Industries of the Maritime 

 Provinces, by R. G. Lewis, B.Sc.F., assisted 

 by W. Guy H. Boyce. 



It is safe to say that the wood using in- 

 dustries of a wood producing country like 

 Canada are always underestimated. The 

 raw material is largely produced locally, 

 and keeps up local industries, which are not 



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