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Italians planting trees with mattocks. Burnt over lands grown up in 



aspen and white birch. 



Planting Forests For Profit 



The Interesting" Story of the Laurentide Company's Success on 

 Waste Lands Near Grand Mere, P.Q. 



By EUzi'ood Wilson, 

 Chief Forester, The Laurentide Company, Limited. 



While no excuse is necessary for 

 beginning to plant trees on a large 

 scale for a future supply of raw ma- 

 terial, still the reasons which led to 

 the inception of the idea by the 

 Laurentide Company, Ltd., of Grand 

 Mere, Quebec, may be of interest to 

 the members of the Canadian Fores- 

 try Association. 



Lumbering on this continent had 



always seemed to me to be conduct- 

 ed in a very Jiand-to-mouth way. 

 The waste, the rule of thumb meth- 

 ods, the way-father-used-to-do-it at- 

 titude of mind, the recklessness in 

 regard to fires and the lack of 

 thought for the future seemed so in- 

 efficient. Lumbering was carried 

 on precisely like mining and when 

 the forest was exploited and des- 



