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ing timber (.conifers) would have 

 the following composition: Red 

 spruce, five billion feet; hemlock, 

 three billion ; white pine, one billion, 

 and the remainder, balsam fir, tam- 

 arack, red and jack pine, and white 

 and black spruce. The hardwooks 

 would be : Beech. 40% ; sugar maple, 

 30% ; yellor birch, 20%, and white 

 and wire birch, soft maple, red oak, 

 white ash and black ash, the remain- 

 ing 10%. Nova Scotia cut about 

 274.722,000 board feet of lumber in 

 1913. Spruce formed 56.9% and 



hemlock 23.2% of this total. Seven- 

 teen kinds of wood in all have been 

 reported from this province. 



The forest area of Prince Edward 

 Island is too small to be considered 

 in a general estimate of this sort as 

 the entire area of the province is 

 only 1,397,760 acres (2,184 square 

 miles). The annual production is 

 6,771,000 board feet, of which spruce 

 forms a half and balsam fir a quar- 

 ter. Fifteen kinds of wood in all 

 were reported in 1912. 



"YOUR HELP IS WANTED HERE!" 



Under the above title the Can- 

 adian Forestry Association issued 

 during the past month 15,000 eight- 

 page booklets for the express use of 

 settlers, river-drivers, section-men, 

 and others who are brought into 

 contact with standing timber. The 

 front page, done in four colors, re- 

 presented a forested hillside blazing 

 fiercely, the flames leaping into the 

 sky, while in the foreground lay the 

 charred wreckage of broken trunks 

 and branches. 



This was the first of a series of il- 

 lustrated booklets which will be pre- 

 pared and distributed by the Asso- 

 ciation during the winter and spring 

 months, but particularly the latter. 

 A first edition of 10,000 in English 

 and 5,000 in French was secured, but 

 the immediate demand from all 

 parts of Canada makes it desirable 

 to quadruple that number. The chief 

 value of this first attempt at an at- 

 tractive propagandist booklet for 

 wholesale distribution in most of the 

 forested districts of Canada lay in 

 the hearty response from the Head 

 offices of Canadian banks, the rail- 

 way companies, and officers of for- 

 est organizations who generously 

 offered every facility to the Associa- 

 tion for getting literature into the 

 hands of settlers and others. 



For the information of members 

 who are interested in this form of 

 publicity, the cost of printing 5,000 

 pamphlets like "Your Help Is 

 Wanted Here" is fifty dollars. 

 Simpler forms of literature can be 

 prepared and printed for a great deal 

 less. It will thus be seen that any 

 member who cares to subscribe $100 

 to the Association, for publicity uses 

 solely, will make possible the publi- 

 cation and distribution of from 

 10,000 to 30,000 attractive booklets. 

 The costly end of the work is gladly 

 borne by the Association and the 

 various agencies who have offered 

 to take care of the distribution. 



Large Editions Demanded. 

 Within a week of the issue of the 

 last booklet the chief officials of 

 three Canadian railway companies 

 had requested 4,000 copies for im- 

 mediate distribution to their em- 

 ployes from coast to coast. The 



Head Offices of Canadian Banks 

 presented the names of fully five- 

 hundred branches to which they 

 wished packets of the pamphlets 

 sent, and, in addition, they pledged 

 the co-operation of their branch 

 managers in making distribution ef- 

 fective. 



