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Canadian Forestry Journal, December, ipij. 



There are 4,999 establishments in Canada engaged in making 

 timber or lumber or in its re-manufacture. 



110,000 employees receive $39,379,000 in wages. 



No other industry ranks as high in capital invested, number 

 of employees and in wages paid. 



The Federal and Provincial governments obtain from forest 

 revenues $7,433,000 a year. 



Avages ; that the cost of the materials 

 was $94,000,000 and the value of the 

 product $185,000,000. This group is 

 the largest among the divisions of 

 the census table of industries in cap- 

 ital invested, number of employees 

 and wages paid, and is second in 

 number of establishments, cost of 

 material and value of products. 



And even this does not include all 

 the industries that use forest pro- 

 ducts for in other divisions are man- 

 ufactures such as paper, vehicles, 

 boats, agricultural implements and 

 others in which large quantities of 

 wood are used. In addition the fire- 

 wood, the maple S3'Tup and sugar, 

 the handy supply for many purposes 

 which helps out the farmer, makes 

 us feel like echoing Mr. Crahay's 

 words and applying them to Can- 

 ada. 



Government Gets Seven Millions. 



The export of forest products and 

 manufactures of wood (not includ- 

 ing those only partially made of 

 wood) in the fiscal year 1914-15 was 

 valued at $53,344,616. 



The revenues received by the dif- 

 ferent governments of Canada di- 

 rectly from the forests during the 

 year 1913 were $7,433,770, so that 

 their direct contribution to the pub- 

 lic finances is important. 



Greater production of timber may 

 be brought about by three special 

 means: (1) Protection: (2) Replant- 

 ing: (3) Forest Management. 



^Micn greater production of agri- 

 cultural crops is urged it means 

 mainly putting a greater area under 

 crop, the preparing of land, the sow- 

 ing of seed. 



The production of timber in Can- 

 ada means largely the protection of 



a crop in various stages of develop- 

 ment which has been sown and 

 grown by a kindly providence and 

 which we are only asked not to des- 

 troy. As the planting of the forest 

 has cost us nothing in labor or in 

 money we view with equanimity its 

 destruction at all stages of imma- 

 turity and think there is no loss, 

 never realizing, as has been well 

 said, that the destruction of a forest 

 crop is just as serious at any stage 

 of its development as the destruc- 

 tion of an agricultural crop, and to 

 say that there is no loss when trees 

 of ten or fifteen years of age are 

 burned up is as foolish as to say that 

 a crop of wheat would be no loss if 

 it were burned or hailed out in July 

 before it was fully matured. 



Education a Real Ctire. 



Production by the means of better 

 protection is still far from perfect in 

 Canada. Every year the losses are 

 considerable and in the dry years 

 they are always heavy, not always 

 so much in the mature growth but 

 in the immature stands that are mak- 

 ing the most rapid production. The 

 efforts of the Forestry Association, 

 the Fire Preventive Associations, 

 and the government departments 

 have brought about improvements 

 in protection but even yet the indif- 

 ference and carelessness which 

 cause disaster are appalling and the 

 need for public education on this 

 subject — the only sure means of ac- 

 complishing it b}^ removing the 

 cause — is pressing. Until practical- 

 ly every child in the country is 

 ready to help in this form of produc- 

 tion by doing his share in protection 

 the appeal for greater production 

 will be unavailing. 



