Planting Spruce for Commercial Purposes. 



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Description of what th«' Laiirentide Company is doinii. Mr. I Ilwooil Wilson's 



results. 



Ill a recent issue of the Pulp and Paper 

 Mat/ti^ine of Canada, Mr. B. K. Avers, M.F., 

 •;avo a ile.scription of the experiments which 

 the Laurentide ("oiiipany of Montreal aiiil 

 (irainl Mere, Qiieliec, has lioen niakin<j umior 

 the direction of Mr. Elivvooil Wilson, Super- 

 intendent of the Forestry Division of the 

 Cunipaiiv. The followin<x article is an 

 al'ridgenient and <a continuation of ^Ir. 

 Avers' article, and the pictures have been 



studies of the pa-t and present methods of 

 iotry;!!!},', with an eye to their continual bet- 

 terment. Many of the iileas of the Division 

 have, after careful consideration, been adopt- 

 ed ; the loygin^ t;oes on improving as to the 

 amount of tops, skids, etc., removed from 

 the woods; the stunijis are cut lower; and 

 the more inaccessible tind)er, whiih has often 

 been left in the i>ast, and is being left to- 

 day by nuiiiy other conij>anies, is iieiny cut 



Scotch pine planted in 1!; 08 near Grand Mere, 

 kindly loaned by the Pulp and Paper Muga- and d 



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The Forestry Division of the Laurentide 

 < "ompany has been in existence for about ten 

 years now. For most of that period the sur- 

 vey work has taken up about all of its time 

 and appropriation. This work, the mapping 

 of water and timber on 2,3.50 square miles of 

 limits, the running out, cutting and blazing 

 of the limit lines; the estimate of the tim- 

 ber, and the other odd pieces of work such 

 as survey of lots, trespass an cuttings, has 

 been almost finished. 



During this time the Forestry Division has 

 done a lot of the more technical work, ."^uch 

 as careful estimating, construction of volume 

 tables for black and white spruce, l)alsam 

 fir and white pine, growth studies of the 

 same species an<l of jack pine and various 



tiKi ciri\('ii tu the mill. 



From the first the idea of .Mr. Wilson. 

 Superintendent of the Forestry Division, was 

 that planting was the idtimate solution of 

 the ]produ<'tion of timber. Now it is not to 

 be expected that a planting i)olicy would 

 be accepted by the fomjiany without a 

 great deal of discussion and opposition. 

 ( 'anada 's supply of j)ulpwooii is the great- 

 est in the world. The St. Maurice Valley 

 includes 15,000 square miles of the most 

 accessible puljiwoo"! in the Dominion, lying 

 in a very favorable location with regar'l to 

 waterpower sites, as well a-s easy .«hipment. 

 ami the Laurentide romj>any's '.'..l-lo square 

 miles is of the best of this. Most people 

 would think that this amount of territory 

 would keep the mill in logs forever, but 

 cold, hard figures show that even this jm- 



