Canadian Forestry Journal, Junndnj, 191. 



Clear burn on Laurentide Company's limits on Upper St. Maurice. 



inense holding is inadequate, and that it 

 will all be cut out in a term of years var- 

 iously estimated at from oO to 7-'. This 

 still distant end of the present supply, and 

 the possibilities of planting as a provision 

 for the future, have long been foreseen by 

 Mr. Chahoon, Vice-President of the Com- 

 pany, and, in keeping with his far-sighted 

 and broad-minded policy the Comjmny has 

 decided to undertake planting o]ierations. 



Mr. Wilson made the first plantations 

 near Grand Mere in 1908. These consisted 

 of about 20 acres of white, Scotch and 

 jack pine. Since then planting has been 

 done each year. Attention has been given 

 to trees which are used "for pulp. Four 

 species have been specially tested; black and 

 white spruce, balsam fir and Norway spruce. 

 As a result of this, in the opinio. i of Mr. 

 Wilson, the Norway spruce is the most sat- 



Land formerly having pure stand of pine, cleared for farm 10 years ago, but soil 



too poor and so abandoned. 



