Maple Day 



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187, Prof. Macoun jjave facts on this mat- 

 ter. At the Canadian Forestry Associa- 

 tion Convention in Ottawa, in February, 

 VJ\'2. Prof. Maiouu, speakinjj; on the pre- 

 servation of railway ties, said that he had 

 been on both Atlantic anil Pacific coasts 

 for many years, and that he had never seen 

 a tree subject to the tides and well soaked 

 with brine that ever produced a fungus, 

 in otlier words, that ever rotted. Yet, go 

 back into the bush a short distance and 

 you would find logs of the same kind which 

 had begun to rot as soon as thev were 

 felled. 



To this Mr. E. A. Sterling, then forester 

 for the Pennsylvania Railroad, said: 'This 

 is a very interesting bit of information, 

 and I am glad to have it as confirming our 

 own idea. I have a lot of ties in j)ickle 

 in Great Sale Lake. They were put there 

 because of the high percentage of salt 

 carried bv the water.' 



MAPLE DAY. 



The co-operative fire prevention asso- 

 ciations are not the only bodies that find 

 it advisable to distribute literature and 

 articles that will attract attention to the 

 cause in hand. Makers of maple sugar in 

 Quebec, this year, made July 1 'maple 

 day, ' and sent out to the largest hotels, 

 all the railway dining cars and steamships 

 little boxes containing a piece of pure 

 maple sugar, to be served to every guest 

 that day. Accompanying this, the Gov- 

 ernment of Quebec Province sent out a 

 little booklet explaining the extent of the 

 maple sugar iiidustry in that province, 

 and the efforts that have been made to 

 improve the quality of the product. The 

 object was to draw the attention of the 

 public to this product, and to promote its 

 use. The jdan attracted widespread at- 

 tention, and was very favoraldy com- 

 mented on. In sympathy with this, the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway issued a spe- 

 cially designed menu card on this day in 

 all its hotels, steamships and dining cars, 

 bearing a picture of the maple leaf, in 

 which was included for each meal a num- 

 ber of dishes in which maple syrup had 

 been incorj)orated. In this campaign over 

 28,000 ]iamidilets and sample^ were used. 



As was pointed out some time ago in 

 these pages, the new clause added to the 

 Adulteration Act of Canada this spring, 

 dealing with maple sugar and maple syrup, 

 is very stringent. Henceforth it will he 

 possible to get pure maple products in 

 Canada, and this fact, it is believed, will 

 stimulate the trade in maple products and 

 exert a wholesome effect on the movement 

 to prevent the cutting down of maple 

 groves on soils unfit for ordinary agricul- 

 ture. The new section of the Act is as 

 follows: — 



' Xo person shall manufacture for sale, 

 keep for sale, or offer or expose for sale, 

 as maple sugar any sugar which is not pure 

 maple sugar, nor as maple syrup any syruj* 

 which is not pure mai>le syrup, and any 

 maple sugar or maple syrup which is not 

 up to the standard prescribed by the sixth 

 schedule to this Act shall be deemed to be 

 adulterated within the meaning of this 

 Act. ^ 



'The word "Maple" shall not be used 

 either alone or in combination with any 

 other word or words on the label or other 

 mark on a package containing any article 

 of food or any article of food itself which 

 is or which resembles maple sugar or 

 ma{)le syrup, and any article of food 

 labelled or marked in violation of this 

 subsection shall be deemed to be adul- 

 terated within the moaiiiiiir of this Act.' 



HON. GEO. H. PERLEY, 



One of Canada's Leading Lumbermen, who 

 recently became a director of the Cana- 

 dian Forestry Association. 



The forests of Corsica, the little island 

 upon which Napoleon was born, are man- 

 aged by the French government. They 

 produce lumber, firewood, and turpentine, 

 and all parts of the tree are far more 

 closelv utilized than in America. 



