442 Canadian Forestry Journal, March, ipi6. 



the country. The importation in particularly of lumber. To meet 



1911 was 30,005,000 cubic feet and this demand it is urged that the pro- 



the export 4,236,000 cubic feet. In election of the forests should be in- 



snite of the use of coal P-as electri- ^^^^^ed by proper management. It 



spite ot the use ot coal, gas, electri ^^ estimated that the production of 



city, iron and concrete, the consump- 40 cubic feet per acre could be in- 



tion of wood increases unceasingly, creased by 30 cubic feet per year, or 



especially of wood for industries and nearly doubled. 



Campaigning Through Boy Scouts 



The Boy Scout Forest-Book, is- forest fires as the result of careless- 

 sued last month by the Canadian ness ... In the hands of the Boy 

 Forestry Association and presented Scouts this little volume should 

 to most of the Boy Scouts in Can- have great educational value and 

 ada has met with a gratifying recep- scout masters cannot over-emphas- 

 tion. Letters heartily commending \ze the importance of the warnings 

 the undertaking have reached the it contains." 



Secretary from many sources and Pulp and Paper Magazine: "In 



applications for the booklet are be- the thirty-two pages of text and il- 



ing received from all parts of Can- lustration, the boy is made ac- 



ada and even remote sections of the quainted with the Canadian forest 



United States where newspaper and as a personal and national necessity, 



magazine notices had first gone. The subject is handled from a new 



Twenty-seven photographic illus- angle." 



trations and sixteen pages of read- Toronto News: "It is made es- 



ing matter have been so arranged as pecially attractive to a boy as it 



to appeal first of all to the boy's deals with a subject that is almost 



sense of what is interesting and invariably interesting to every 



secondly Avhat is most important healthy upstanding youngster." 



that he should know. Newspaper St. Thomas Journal: "Mr. Black 



comments upon the production have has Avritten a helpful thing in 'The 



been laudatory in tone and a few Boy Scout Forest-Book.' It is is- 



excerpts are given as examples: sued as part of the Association's 



Montreal Herald: "It is a happy educational propaganda for forest 

 idea of the Canadian Forestry Asso- protection. The young reader is 

 ciation to get out a 'Boy Scout's given the business reasons for put- 

 Forest-Book' and present a copy to ting an end to our plague of forest 

 the members of the Scout Move- fires." 



ment in Canada. ... It certainly Copies of the booklet have been 

 will arouse the interests of young mailed to all members of the Can- 

 minds in the value of the national adian Forestry Association, 

 forests and make the lads feel that The Secretary is now preparing 

 the trees are the friends of both the an edition in French for distribution 

 individual and the community. AVe to many thousands of senior boys in 

 congratulate the Association on this Quebec Province. It is pos'sible 

 further evidence of aggressive work that, owing to the relatively few Boy 

 along most valuable lines." Scouts in the French-speaking popu- 



Victoria, B.C. Times: "This For- lation of Quebec, the name of the 

 est-Book might Avell be in the hands booklet wiU be altered to "The Can- 

 of every citizen of Canada for it adian Boy's Forest-Book," and some 

 comprehensively, yet simply, points of the illustrations and reading mat- 

 out the stupendous wastage of tim- ter made to focus more directly 

 ber which occurs each year through upon Quebec's forest development. 



