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Canadian Forestry Journal, February, i()i6. 



Dominion Government and though 

 costly it is essential if any crop of 

 wooci is to be produced at all on 

 some lands and if we are to do our 

 utmost in wood productin. It is to 

 be hoped that we will not so treat 

 our remaining areas of forest that 

 this expensive method will have to 

 be resorted to generally. 



Production must be improved by 

 being placed on a permanent basis. 

 The speculative phase that we have 

 passed through and are passing 

 through in Canada was based too 

 much on disregard of the future or 

 on blind optimism. Optimism is 

 good but should be founded^ on 

 knowledge not on ignorance. When 

 a mill "for manufacturing lumber, 

 pulp, paper or whatever it may be is 

 established, when a community 

 grows up dependent on it, it should 

 have behind it the necessary supply 

 of raw material to make it perman- 

 ent, not only that business may 

 prosper but that homes may be se- 

 cure. Trade depression can proba- 

 bly not be avoided but every effort, 

 public and private, should be made 

 to see that industries that are es- 

 tablished should as far as possible 

 have reasonable expectation of per- 

 manency and' that every means 

 should be taken to secure the pre- 

 servation of the supply of raw ma- 

 terial necessary for such perman- 

 ency. 



(From a paper delivered before 

 the Canadian Forestry Association 

 Annual Meeting, 1916.) 



Forester for N.B. Firm 



The latest lumber company to en- 

 gage the services of a professional 

 forester is J. B. Snowball & Co., 

 Ltd., Chatham, N.B. This company 

 has employed Mr. J. R. Gareau, a 

 graduate of the Quebec Forest 

 School, Laval University, to have 

 general suoervision over the woods 

 operations on the company's limits. 

 He will also make a map and timber 

 estimate of these limits, as well as 

 enforce close utilization of all mer- 

 chantable material. Cutting opera- 

 tions will be regulated with a view 

 to ensuring the perpetuation of the 

 forest, and particular attention will 

 be paid to fire protection. Other 

 companies in- eastern Canada em- 

 ploying professional foresters are 

 the Laurentide Company, the Rior- 

 dan Pulp and Paper Company, the 

 New Brunswick Railway Company, 

 and the Canadian Pacific Railway. 



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