Canadian Forestry Journal, September, ipij. 



211 



The Laurentide Company, Limit- 

 ed, has inaugurated an aggressive 

 poHcy of forest planting upon lands 

 which it has purchased in the vicin- 

 ity of its pulp and paper mill at 

 Grand Mere, P.Q. To a consider- 

 able extent, these are lands previous- 

 ly cleared for cultivation but found 

 upon trial by the settlers to be too 

 poor to be suitable for continued 

 agricultural purposes. About four 

 hundred acres have already been 

 planted to trees, mostly Norway 

 spruce, with some Scotch, white and 

 red pine. The oldest of these planta- 

 tions was made in 1913 and all have 

 been successful. The only failure 

 has been in fall planted red pine. 

 The Scotch pine have made good 

 growth and the white pine have 

 started well. With the Norway 

 spruce there has been less than 5% 

 loss and they have begun to grow 

 nicely. These plantations are guard- 

 ed by fire lines and roads and a 

 special ranger is kept on duty all the 

 time from snow to snow. The 

 nursery has been enlarged to deliver 

 one million trees per annum and this 

 will mean the planting of practicallv 

 a square mile a year. It is expected 

 that by the time the trees reach suit- 

 albe size to be thinned for pulp 

 wood that the Company will have a 

 reserve of cheap wood within six 

 miles of the mill. If this programme 

 is carried out, it will be the first of 

 its kind on the continent. 



seriousness of the situation became 

 known, and volunteers were sought 

 to fight the flames, the whole battalion 

 volunteered and arrangements were 

 made to handle the situation promptly 

 and scientifically. The first men hur- 

 ried to the scene of the blaze were sent 

 in motor trucks, and these took with 

 them a number of signallers, who at 

 once established communication with 

 the camp, so that the necessary work 

 was done smoothly and to the best ad- 

 vantage from start to finish. The sig- 

 nallers were also particularly useful 

 when two of the fire-fighters were in- 

 jured and in response to their an- 

 nouncement of this fact, a motor am- 

 bulance was immediately sent to bring 

 the injured men back to camp. The 

 fire was a stubborn one, but the large 

 force engaged in its extinction was 

 able, after two hours of hard work, to 

 get it completely under control. 



There seem to be only too many rea- 

 sons for believing that many of the 

 fires that have happened in the forests, 

 in dried grass and elsewhere in the 

 province this year have been due to 

 carelessness. Probably in practically 

 ever}' instance where this has been the 

 case the people responsible for the fires 

 intended no harm ; but there is such a 

 thing known to the law as criminal 

 negligence. 



Bush fires two and a half miles from 

 V^alcartier Camp gave the members of 

 the 60th Battalion who are at the train- 

 ing grounds an opportunity to render 

 valuable service recently. When the 



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