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Canadian Forestry Journal, March, 1915 



aid, Robertson, Smith, Thomas, Tulley and 

 Wallin. The occasion of the gathering was 

 an address from Mr. Campbell on his ob- 

 servations in Europe during the past sum- 

 mer. This address was much appreciated 

 and was followed by an interesting dis- 

 cussion. A more extended reference to this 

 address is omitted here because in another 

 part of this issue there appears an article 

 by Mr. Campbell on the subject. The even- 

 ing was a most pleasant and profitable one. 



NOT PROHIBITION BUT CONSERVA- 

 TION. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA FOREST MAT- 

 TERS. 



SuppUed by the B. C. Forest Braneh. 



Timber Sales. — During the past year 

 roughly 48,000,000 feet of saw timber was 

 sold by the Forest Braneh at an average 

 stumpage price of $1.15 per thousand, over 

 and above royalty of 50 cents. For the most 

 part these sales were small fractions which 

 would be logged inside of one or two years 

 and a large proportion of them were in the 

 Coast district, where Douglas fir, cedar and 

 western hemlock predominate. A total of 

 67,000 acres was closely cruised for timber 

 sale purposes during the year, on which there 

 was an estimated stand of 560,000,000 feet. 



Land Examination. — Land classification 

 is carried on by the Forest Branch for the 

 following three-fold object: (1) To prevent 

 alienation of land valuable chiefly for tim- 

 ber. (2) To make available for settlement 

 all areas suitable for agriculture. (3) To 

 hold under reserve lands which are unfitted 

 for agriculture. The area which has been 

 so classified during the past year is close to 

 half a million acres, of which 170,000 acres 

 have been reserved, carrying a stand of tim- 

 ber of approximately one billion feet. 



Scaling. — On the first of January the 

 British Columbia log scale came into use 

 over the entire province, in accordance with 

 the provisions of the Royalty Act. This rule 

 has been in use for a number of years on 

 the Coast, but the Doyle rule has been, until 

 now, the accepted rule for that portion of 

 the province east of the Cascade mountains. 

 This change will make a uniform scale avail- 

 able for the whole province, and will ap- 

 preciably increase the log scale for the in- 

 terior. . 



A GOOD SUGGESTION. 



W. C. Read, of Indiana, advocates the 

 planting of nut-bearing trees, including 

 black walnut, butternut, beech, chestnut and 

 pecan. The Canadian Forestry Journal men- 

 tions walnuts as suitable to Ontario. They 

 will give shade, beauty, fruit, and eventu- 

 ally timber. Why not plant them in prefer- 

 ence to trees of less utility? — Toronto Star. 



First we had an age of indiscriminate and 

 luthless tree-cutting. Then followed the age 

 of dissatisfaction and revolt and the demand 

 that not a single tree should be cut where 

 the public could prevent it, and the genera- 

 tion that grew up under the influence of 

 this teaching and i^ractice has come to be- 

 lieve that scientific forestry consists in the 

 lirohibition of cutting trees! It would be 

 just as wise to prohibit the cutting of wheat 

 or of oats. Nature gives us our forest har- 

 vests; Nature, with the co-operation of man, 

 gives us our cereal harvests. Both are in- 

 tended to be good for human vise, and both 

 can be improved by cutting. The thing for 

 us to do, not in the distant future but in the 

 immediate future, just as soon as we can 

 get to it, is to cut all trees which shall be 

 prescribed by public authority — trees of such 

 a size or of such an age, matured trees — and 

 then either set Out others in their place or 

 give Nature herself a chance to reproduce 

 others in their place, so that we shall have a 

 continuous, everlasting forest, man taking 

 from it, from year to year, under restric- 

 tions established by public authority, such 

 trees as may be needed for his purposes, and 

 man and Nature filling the gap thus created. 

 — Dr. J. G. Schurman, President of Cornell 

 University. 



GAME IN NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTS. 



New Brunswick, during the game season 

 which closed November 30, well sustained 

 its reputation as a paradise for big game 

 hunters. During the season, the total num- 

 ber of moose, deer and caribou killed and 

 accounted for was 4,738. Probably the 

 largest moose head taken out was one of 

 6414 inches, which was secured by Otto 

 Warman of St. John. Three other splendid 

 heads were brought out, measuring 63 inches, 

 60 inches, and 59% inches respectively. Two 

 of these were secured by New York sports- 

 men. Eight bears are reported as having 

 been killed. There is no return of other fur- 

 bearing animals, or of wild fowl, or of game 

 fish, such as trout and land-locked salmon, 

 for which the province of New Brunswick 

 is famous. — Busy Fast Magaziiw, Moncton. 



A PRAYER THAT NEVER GETS OLD. 



Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, 

 Some boundless contiguity of shade. 

 Where rumor of oppression and deceit. 

 Of unsuccessful or successful war 

 Might never reach me more. My ear is 



pained. 

 My soul is sick with every day's report 

 Of wrong and outrage with which earth is 



filled. 



— William Cowper. 



