With the Forest Engineers. 



DR. FEKNOWS SUMMER WORK. 



Dr. Feriiow sjiont liis suinnuT mostly at 

 his suiiiinor home on tlio south slioii' of 

 Lake Ontario, iu New York, revisiiifj his 

 Ecoiioinics of Fort'titrn. This volume, first 

 printed in U>02, has become obsolete, espe- 

 cially in the statistics, anil those have been 

 broufjht uji to date. Unt'ortunately, the 

 firm of publishers who have handled this 

 volume have suffered a financial setback, 

 which will delay the printinj; of the new 

 edition jirobably for a year. 



Dr. Fernow attended the meeting of the 

 Society for the Protection of New Hamp- 

 shire Forests at Gorham, N.IL, in August, 

 and in connection with this the meeting 

 of the Society of Northeastern Foresters 

 at Berlin Mills. This meeting was of un- 

 usual interest, not only in that it brought 

 some 2;j professional foresters to a meet- 

 ing in the woods, but these woods, belong- 

 ing to the Berlin ^^ills Comjiany, were the 

 first on this continent in which a lumber 

 and paper company had employed a fores- 

 ter with a view of improving their logging 

 operations as regards securing clean work 

 and reproduction. Mr. Austin Gary Tvas 

 the forester. 



Unfortunately in a selection forest, the 

 results can only be realized by him Avho 

 saw the original condition, and hence the 

 excursion without guidance of such a man 

 remained more or less barren of results. 

 But there were other features in the opera- 

 tions of the Berlin ^Mills Company that 

 made the visit profitable. The company 

 owns not only some .':500,000 acres of forest 

 in the States, but controls even larger 

 areas in Quebec, and is an active member 

 of the St. Maurice Fire Protective Asso- 

 ciation. Its paper mills are, perhaps, the 

 largest on this continent, if not in the 

 world, and are organized for efficiency, 

 making by-products which one woul'l 

 hardly exjiect, such as chloroform and 

 crisco, by using the excess of hydrogen re- 

 sulting from the manufacture of the 

 bleaching powder. The company employs 

 four foresters in its wooil ilepartment. 



QUEBEC FOREST WORK. 



Mr. G. C. Piche, Chief of the Forest Ser- 

 vice, Quebec, writes: — 



During the months of July, August and 

 September the activity of the members of 

 the Forest Service was devoted to the 

 classification of vacant lots and the in- 

 spection of settlers' lots. We had 12 

 parties in the field, besides isolated rangers 

 calling at the wood-working establishments 



ti) olitain their reports, or watching the 

 movements of timber along the railways, 

 or in tiic harbors of Montreal and Quebec, 

 ctr. Ill all, wo had about Inn men at work. 



Xow that we liave used the month of 

 Octoher to complete the unfinished jobs 

 ami |>repare the reports of these exi)lora- 

 tions, we are beginning the organization 

 for the control of the logging operations. 

 Until recently there was a good deal of 

 hesitation with our lumbermen, and the 

 |>ros]iects of the cut were v'ery bad, but 

 the thermometer seems to be rising, as very 

 few firms will not be at work this winter, 

 and the timber crop will be aliout as good 

 as last year, j)erhaps, suffering a diminu- 

 tion of to to I'.j per cent. 



Considering the general situation, I be- 

 lieve tliis is remarkable, ancl it would 

 surprise you, i)erha|)s, to hear that some 

 of the firms, especially the pulp mills, wil! 

 increase their proiluctioii. 



Kegarding the Forest School, I must in 

 form you that we have entered the new 

 building which has been built by Laval 

 University for the faculties of Law, Sur- 

 veying and Forestry. As we have better 

 legs tlian the others, they gave us the two 

 upper stories of the building (!•() x 50) for 

 our (lasses. 



Our new quarters are very suitable, and 

 we can hope now to build u]) some nice 

 collections, etc., ami we will rely upon 

 our friends to send us as much as they 

 can. Everything will be welcome. 



The Forest Service has published a sec- 

 ond bulletin, which deals with the general 

 conditions of the forest lands in this prov- 

 ince. Our first bulletin gave the names of 

 tlie wood-working establishments. Until 

 now we have only a French issue of this 

 liulletin, Iiut we ex|)ect to have the I'^ng- 

 lish version out in a short time. 



TRIP TO THE YUKON. 



:Mr. W. J. Boyd, of the Forestry Branch 

 of the Department of the Interior, accom- 

 jianieil by Mr. E. S. Davison, another 

 graduate of the University of Toronto 

 Forest ry School, has returned from a five 

 months' tri[) from Prince Albert, Saskat- 

 chewan, to Yukon Territory, and is now 

 at the head ofiFice, Ottawa, i)reparing his 

 report. The object of the trip was to se- 

 cure data regarding forest conditions and 

 forest protection along the lower part of 

 the Mackenzie River, and especially in the 

 Yukon. 



The start was made from Prince Albert 



on Mav 



l.j, when the two men, 



with their 



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