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the example of their enterprising in order that they may receive regu- 

 sisters." larly the 'Forestry Talks for Young 

 School teachers everywhere are People' and other material which 

 asked to send in their names to the can be used as supplementary read- 

 Secretary, Booth Building, Ottawa, ing for school classes. 



Revive Timber Growing in England 



London, Jan. 12. — (Correspond- 

 ence of the Associated Press.) — A 

 movement for the home growing of 

 timber has been initiated here by 

 Lord Selbourne in order to revive a 

 steadily declining industry. Foreign 

 competition has, within the past 

 twenty years, driven all enterprise 

 out of the British timber trade and 

 frightened away capital. But Lord 

 Selbourne hopes to take advantage 

 of a temporary revival due to the 

 war and put the industry on a per- 

 manent footing. 



Forestry, he declared in an ad- 

 dress before the English Forestry 

 Association this week, has never re- 

 ceived proper attention in England. 

 English woods should be organized, 

 new trees properly guarded and de- 

 structive animals, such as rabbits, 

 exterminated. The speaker conclud- 

 ed with an appeal to coalmen to 

 make their pit prop contracts with 

 British landowners. 



An immense amount of timber 

 has been imported here since the 

 outbreak of war, particularly for the 

 construction of temporary barracks 

 at the army training camps. Yet the 

 freight rates have been so heavy 

 that the resulting higher price of 

 imported timber has given the Bri- 

 tish an unexpected opportunity. The 

 freight cost has had the effect of a 

 bonus for home products. Owing 

 to the shortage of props from Nor- 

 way, English props have been con- 

 siderably used in the mines this 

 year. English timber of the rougher 

 sort for scantling and rough work 

 has supplemented the usual Can- 

 adian supply as well. 



The Forestry Association passed 

 resolutions asking the government 

 to retain at home experienced tim- 

 ber men offering themselves as 

 Derby recruits, and also to recall 

 them from the army. 



