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Canadian Forestry .loiumal, July, 1915. 



QUEBEC'S FIHES. 



B. C.'S SniPI'IXG PROBLEM. 



The largest fires in Quebec province so far this 

 year have broken out on limits outside the zones 

 of the protective associations. In such instances 

 ett'orts M'ere made by the companies' own rangers 

 to deal with the outbreaks but too often the inex- 

 perience of the fighting force proved a serious 

 handicap. 



J. GUIDE HOR SETTLERS. 



A circular letter has been issued to settlers and 

 farmers by the British Columbia Government em- 

 bodying the regulations concerning fire permits, 

 giving rules for guidance when burning slash or 

 brush in land clearing operations and informa- 

 tion as to what should be done when fire breaks 

 out. It also appeals to the citizens to help elimi- 

 nate the fire menace. 



GYPST MOTH DANGER. 



The presence of the gypsy moth in shipments 

 of various forest products including pulpwood. 

 from the United States, has led to the passing 

 of an order-in-council as a result of which all 

 ■'forest plant products, including logs, tan bark, 

 posts, po'.es, ties, cordwood and lumber origi- 

 nating from any one of the States of Maine, Mas- 

 sachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and 

 Rhode Island, shall not be admitted into Canada 

 unless accompanied by a certificate showing that 

 they have been innspected by the United States 

 Department of AgriculUire and found free from 

 the gypsy moth." 



MORE U. S. RESERVES. 



On Wednesday, September ■22, members of the 

 American Forestry Association and delegates of 

 various Forestry ' Societies, Boards of Trade. 

 Chambers of Commerce and other organizations 

 of the New England and Southern Appalachian 

 States will appear before Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture Houston at "Washington in conference. They 

 will ask the Secretary to recommend to Congress 

 the passage of a liill providing for an appropria- 

 tion of $10,000,000 to be expended at the rate 

 of $2,000,000 a -ear for five years in the pur- 

 chase, under the Weeks Act, of more forest re- 

 serves in New England and in the Southern 

 Appalachians. 



C. P. R:S GOOD WORK. 



An incident which shows the determined stand 

 taken by the Canadian Pacific Railway to deal 

 with forest fires along its lines occurred recently 

 in Quebec. Sparks from an engine set fire t" 

 grass on the right of way and spread to a patch 

 of timber. Quick action by a ranger of the 

 Laurentide Company confined the destruction to 

 about three acres. The next day the defective 

 engine was taken out of service and a special 

 patrolman was put on the track with a track 

 ve'ocipede to follow up all trains. The section 

 foreman was reprimanded, the master mechanic 

 being called upon also to explain his conduct. In 

 four days the Forest Inspector had appraised the 

 damage" and submitted his report to the Claims 

 Department of the railway. This is indeed an 

 -example of prompt and thorough action. 



Mr. H. K. MacMillan, Chief Forester of British 

 Columbia, is engaged at present as special trade 

 commissioner for his Government, in making a 

 study of the transportation question since the 

 lack of shipping is the British Columbia lum- 

 berman's chief problem. Mr. MacMillan's trip 

 will include France, Italy and Spain, South Af- 

 rica, Australia, New Zealand, India, China, Japan, 

 and South America. 



THE COVER PICTURE. 



The picture from which this month's cover for 

 the Journal was taken represents an actual pho- 

 tograph of a moose swimming a stream in the 

 Rainy River country along the lines of the Cana- 

 dian Northern Railway. While engaged in his 

 work as fire ranger on the Dawson canoe route, 

 H. J. Bury saw the moose take the water and 

 by following closely in its wake secured the 

 unique picture for which the Journal is indebted 

 to the Canadian Northern. 



MUST BURN THE TOPS. 



The Quebec Gov-ernment has sent to limit liold- 

 ers in the province a notice stating that the 

 Government plans to pass an order-in-council 

 making it obligatory on all persons lumbering 

 along the right-of-way of any railroad to clear 

 away and burn all tops and debris within 100 

 feet of the right-of-way. This is decidediy a pro- 

 gressive step which will have hear;y and general 

 support. It imposes no very heavy exi>ense on 

 any party concerned and provides a valuable pro- 

 tection for the adjacent woodlands. 



AN ONTARIO REMINDER. 



The Ontario Department of Lands, Forests and 

 Mines has issued recently for the use of lumber- 

 men, loggers, tourists, settlers, railroad construc- 

 tion gangs, boy scouts, etc., a handy pocket whet- 

 stone neatly mounted in enamelled metal. On 

 the enamel is printed in bold letters: 'Prevent 

 Forest Fires — When in the woods put your camp- 

 fires out. Do not drop lithted matches or tobac- 

 co." This is likely to prove very effective as a 

 constant reminder to thousands who come in 

 contact with the forests. 



SAP CUP BURIED IN TREE. 



Mr. Avern Pardoe, a well-known stock broker 

 of Toronto, writes this interesting note to "Ameri- 

 can Forestry" : 



■■I was cutting a large white pine, about three 

 feet in diameter ajid 150 feet high, when about 

 a third of the way through the ax went into 

 what I thought was rot. The remainder of the 

 cut was made with the saw. We then found the 

 supposed unsoundness was in reality a cup cut 

 into the tree when it was young and subse- 

 quently overgrown with new wood. There were 

 over eighty rings of new wood outside the cup 

 and about seventy rings had been formed before 

 the cup was made. It was undoubtedly Indian 

 work as eighty years ago there were no white 

 people in the district. The purpose of the cut 

 must have been to gather gum for the making 

 ;ind mending of canoes, etc. The place was the 

 shore of an island in Lake Joseph in the Mus- 

 koka district, Ontario, Canada." 



