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course into the greatest possible con- 

 formity with actual operations and condi- 

 tions, and so make the graduates increas- 

 ingly valuable to the lumbering industry. 

 The"^ members of this advisory committee 

 would represent, respectively, (1) the 

 eastern, (2) the central, and (3) the west- 

 ern districts of the province. 



QUEBEC NOTES. 



Bulletin No. 2 of the Forest Service of 

 the Province of Quebec will be issued 

 shortly. It will consist of a general des- 

 cription of the forests of the province. 

 Bulletin No. 1, the list of sawmills and 

 other wood-using industries, will be revised 

 and re-issued, the industries being classi- 

 fied by industries as well as places. 



A co-operative arrangement has been 

 entered into by the Dominion and Quebec 

 (Provincial) Governments for the joint 

 collection of statistics in regard to wood- 

 using industries. 



CONCRETE TIES INFERIOR TO WOOD. 



Mr. L. M. Ellis, Assistant Superintend- 

 ent of Forestry for the Canadian Pacific 

 Eailway, has been securing data regarding 

 the use of concrete ties as compared with 

 wood. The Chicago and Alton Eailroad 

 has found concrete ties distinctly inferior, 

 as given in a letter to Mr. Ellis. The 

 Chief Engineer says: — 



'There were 60 concrete ties placed in 

 the track in October, 1903. They were 

 placed in the track and ballasted with 

 stone, where they had good drainage and 

 were kept in good surface. In 1906 there 

 were 12 concrete ties changed out; in 1911, 

 32; in 1912, 10, and 1913, 6. These ties 

 were changed out on account of crushing 

 and breaking down under the rail and un- 

 safe to remain in the track. Ties were 

 constructed of cement, iron girder and oak 

 block. There were two blocks of concrete 

 7" thick, 9''' wide and 3' long. There 

 was an iron girder that ran through the 

 blocks that was 2'' thick and 2'' wide; 

 there was an oak block 3" thick and lO"' 

 wide and 24'' long, set on top of the con- 

 crete tie to use for cushion of rail and to 

 spike rail. There was a wooden plug in 

 the concrete to hold the spike to place. 



' These ties weighed about 450 lbs., and 

 when track was surfaced the ballast had 

 to be dug out from between the ties. If 

 this was not done the rail would lift up 

 and ties would stay in ballast on account 

 of their weight. When track heaved 

 slightly in the winter it caused track to 

 become slightly uneven. The ties under 

 the heavy part of the track would crush 

 and break, and this left the track unsafe. 

 We were compelled to place oak track 



ties between the concrete ties to hold 

 track to gauge. After the six years' test 

 I have concluded that concrete ties of this 

 make are a failure. ' 



C. S. F. E. DISTRICT EXECUTIVE COM- 

 MITTEES. 



The "District Executives" ^jrovided for 

 at the last (1914) annual meeting of the 

 Canadian Society of Forest Engineers have 

 been elected as follows: — 



Ontario. — Clyde Leavitt, chairman; T. 

 W. Dwight, J.'H. White. 



Quebec and Alaritime Provinces. — G. C. 

 Piche, cliairman; A. Bedard, R. B. Miller. 



Prairie Provinces. — N. M. Ross, chair- 

 man; L. M. Ellis, W. Alden. 



British Columbia. — H. R. MacMillau, 

 chairman; D. R. Cameron, W. J. YauDu 

 sen. 



NEWS OF FOREST WORK. 



Survey parties are beginning to come in 

 from their season 's work, and other field 

 work for the year is nearing completion. 

 The Canadiun Forestry Journal desires to 

 get from leaders of parties and other fores- 

 ters notes of their work, and items of in- 

 terest to foresters generally. Address, 

 James Lawler, Editor, Canadian Forestry 

 Journal, Journal Building, Ottawa. 



CAMPBELL-RUSSELL. 



Mr. Roy L. Campbell, B.A., B.Sc.F. (To- 

 ronto, 1914), son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. 

 Campbell, of Ottawa, was, on Sept. 9, 

 married to Miss Helen Russell, B.A., 

 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Russell, 

 of St. Mary's, Ont. The wedding was 

 solemnized by Rev. R. Fowlie, of Colling- 

 wood, uncle of the bride. Miss Jessie H. 

 Russell was bridesmaid, and Mr. Gordon 

 Bole, B.A., of Winnipeg, groomsman. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Campbell have taken up their 

 residence in Montreal, where Mr. Camp- 

 bell is the editor of The Pulp and Paper 

 Magazine. 



OUR FEATHERED HELPERS. 



The birds* not only make our woods, 

 forests and parks more beautiful and en- 

 joyable, but they are of the greatest prac- 

 tical value from an economic view-point. 

 They are the greatest foes of, and protec- 

 tion against, the insects, which annually 

 destroy or injure crops and trees to the 

 value of hundreds of millions. — Rochester 

 Times. 



