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made of the other less valuable 

 species, in order that by marketing- 

 them the cost of logging the whole 

 may be reduced. In our region 

 where we log the drivable soft 

 woods, the problem resolves itself 

 into what market can be found for 

 the hard woods capable of being 

 turned into lumber, bobbins and 

 novelties of all kind. Can we find a 

 manufacturer who will use our rock 

 maple for shoe lasts? Or one who 

 will use our white birch for tooth 

 picks, spool wood, or peg wood? 

 Can we find a jobber to cut white 

 ash for axe-handles or shovel- 

 handles ; a tannery using hemlock 

 bark ; soda or excelsior mills using 

 poplar wood? Can we sell cord 

 wood to the neighboring villages at 

 a profit? A\"ill it pay to put in alco- 

 hol plants or charcoal burners to 

 utilize the limbs and inferior por- 

 tions of the trees ? All of these ques- 

 tions present problems of cost, 

 transportation and marketing too 

 complex to go into here, but a prac- 

 tical knowledge of their possibilities 

 and ability to extract a small profit 

 will make possible the logging of a 

 tract formerly considered merchant- 

 ably inaccessible. 



JJ\isfe in Lo":^in(^. 



The next problem presented is the 

 reduction of waste in logging. This 

 necessitates frequent inspections 

 and an inspection report which is 

 sent in each week to the main office 

 by an experienced employee whose 

 sole duty is to travel about among a 

 certain limited number of operations 

 and make sure that the specifica- 

 tions and conditions called for in 

 each jobber's individual contract, 

 are lived up to. 



Then comes the reduction of 

 waste on the drive. Dynamite is 

 now used on rocks and obstructions 

 in a river before driving commences, 

 instead of on the logs during the 

 progress of the drive. This avoids 

 a large breakage. A stream proper- 

 ly improved will have one or many 

 storage dams and all of the larger 



Mr. Charles Lathrop Pack, of Lake- 

 wood, N.J., and Cleveland, Ohio, who 

 was elected President of the American 

 Forestry Association at Boston, January 

 17th. 



rocks will either be blasted out or 

 abutments built over them, and 

 shear booms constructed in order 

 that there may be a continuous and 

 unobstructed passage for the logs to 

 the mill. The use of telephone men 

 and telephone boxes at critical 

 points has been the common practice 

 for some time. A clean rear is in- 

 sisted on, as logs left back over a 

 vear abrase themselves and waste 

 against rocks in the river or against 

 the shore of a lake as they are 

 beaten about by wind and wave. In 

 some instances logs are left in the 

 still waters of a mill, pond from one 

 season to another in order that the 

 bark may be softened and drop off, 

 thus saving the cost and waste of 

 rossing, it being estimated that the 

 saving in wood wasted by the bark- 

 ing knives is greater than the inter- 

 est on the investment. In such 

 plants however as have the modern 

 rossing drums, this is unnecessary, 

 as the bark is completely removed 



