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Foster, the concise and interesting- 

 references to the conservation work 

 of the Forest Products Laboratories 

 by Hon. Dr. Roche ; the elocjuent 

 charm of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who 

 asserted that were he given his way 

 every forest in Canada would be 

 state-owned and administered and 

 that any man who cut down a tree 

 should be obliged to plant one. Dr. 

 Michael Clark, M.P., for Red Deer, 

 Alberta, delivered a stirring and vi- 



tal appeal for recognition of the 

 great issues involved in the Euro- 

 pean war. Dr. Adams, Dean of the 

 Faculty of Applied Science of Mc- 

 Gill University, spoke on the activi- 

 ties of the Commission of Conserva- 

 tion. Mr. Gordon C. Edwards was 

 chairman of the banquet in the ab- 

 sence of Senator Geo. Gordon, and 

 was assisted by Mr. F. E. Whitman, 

 President of the Canadian Forestry 

 Association. 



Taking New Tolls From the Wood 



Crop 



Economy in Modern Forest Operations as Practised From the 



Logging Camp to the Factory. 



By 



Hon. W. R. Brown, 

 General Manager, The Brozvn Corporation, La Tuque, P.Q.; President, New 



Hampshire Forestry Commission. 



(A paper read before the Annual Meeting of 

 the Canadian Forestry Association at Ottawa, 

 January 20th, of which the following are ex- 

 crepts) : 



I am going to speak to you on 

 close utilization, the steps taken to 

 secure it, and some of the unusual 

 products it creates. Close utiliza- 

 tion is the first point of contact be- 

 tween scientific forestry and com- 

 mercial lumbering, and a durable 

 bond of mutual interest, highly es- 

 sential to forestry and profitable to- 

 business. Whether a forest is con- 

 sidered a mine to be mined, or a 

 crop to be raised ; whether it is con- 

 sidered a matter of private or public 

 concern; whether it is considered 

 profitable or unprofitable, is a mat- 

 ter largely of judgment based on the 

 conditions presented, but there is no 

 question of the desirability of pre- 

 venting waste on the one hand, and 



securing the largest returns from 

 every portion of the product on the 

 other; so that my paper will treat of 

 the practical problems in saving 

 from actual experience, leaving the 

 debate as to the policies of the pro- 

 fession and its technicalities to more 

 expert hands. 



A Market for Hard Woods. 

 First of all we will commence 

 with the uncut timberland, pre-sup- 

 posing that there has been a plan 

 made, such as a -diameter cut; a sel- 

 ected area cut; a strip cut, or a clean 

 cut, for the removal of such species 

 of trees as are required for a specific 

 purpose. Our first problem of close 

 utilization is what can be done with 

 the uncommercial portions of the 

 tree which are commonly left in the 

 forest, and what, if any, use can be 



