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Lacroix at Joliette to pay a fine of 

 $10.00, plus" costs, and in default of 

 payment to imprisonment in the 

 county jail for one month. He spent 

 his one month in jail. Fine $10.00; 

 costs, $45.15. 



Joseph Rivest, of St. Come, was 

 prosecuted by the Association for 

 having- set fire to his slash during 

 the prohibited season without first 

 ■ obtaining a written permit from the 

 ranger. He was acquitted by Mag- 

 istrate Lacroix at Joliette, as the 

 witnesses favored the accused. 



Ernest Bouchard, Louis Guerin, 

 Doe Hervey, Philippe Claveau, 

 Philippe Brassard, David Tremblay 

 fils de Jimmy, Durgene Ellefson and 

 Mederic Tremblay were prosecuted 

 by the Association for having set 

 fire to the forest while working on 

 the improvements. Their attorney 

 has since taken an injunction against 

 the proceedings claiming that we 

 had no rights to arrest them in the 

 manner that we did. The injunction 

 has not yet come before the judge. 



Where Skilled Management Pays 



^^^^^^^^^^^^==^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^High Dividends ^^^^^^^=^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^=^^^^^^^ 



A Swiss Canton in ^o Years has Tripled the Annual Forest Cut 

 Without Decreasing Capital Stock. 



It would l3e easy to show that sev- 

 eral forest managers have reached 

 the point of realizing a return which 

 is greater than is the amount of the 

 expense of administration solely by 

 judicious management and intelli- 

 gent sale of the products of their 

 forest. As an example of this let us 

 take the Commune of Couvet, Can- 

 ton de Neuchatel, Switzerland. The 

 forests of Couvet have a total area 

 of 345 acres. They have been man- 

 asred for thirtv years bv a technical 

 forester. According to the plan of 

 improvement and the control of op- 

 erations we see by the table on the 

 opposite page the development of 

 the standing material and the pro- 

 duction both in material and in 

 money. 



From 1883 to 1913 the annual cut 



has increased from 42.36 cubic feet 

 per acre to 128.49. It has thus trip- 

 led and that has been obtained with- 

 out a diminution of the standing 

 material. The latter has even slight- 

 ly increased. It is necessary to note 

 also that the proportion of larger 

 timber, the most valuable, which in, 

 1883 was only 18% is now 30%. The 

 proportion of wood for manufacture 

 in the annual cut also has increased 

 from 56% to 69 %» As to the return 

 in money it has nearly doubled. The 

 credit of such good result is due in 

 the first place to the method of di- 

 rect management which the Canton 

 of Neuchatel has provided. Applied 

 elsewhere in the same conditions 

 there is reason to believe that it 

 would not have less good results. 

 Examples of it are abundant. 



