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Canadian Forestry Journal, April, ipi6. 



that district, made the following ob- 

 servations following- the discussion 

 bv the Cochrane Board of Trade of 

 the Canadian Forestry Association's 

 proposals : 



From Any Angle. 



'Take it from any angle you will, 

 forest fires are a tremendous waste 

 and waste in any shape or form is 

 always sinful. There is no inten- 

 tion ' to prevent the settler from 

 clearing and burning every stick of 

 timberon his homestead, if he feels 

 thus inclined, but when that settler 

 sets fire to his slash carelessly and 

 consequently destroys and lays 

 waste the country for miles and 

 miles around him. wasting in our 

 davs what it took nature half a cen- 

 tury to produce, destroying his 

 neighbors' property and endanger- 

 ing their lives, that man is culpable 

 and should be dealt with according- 

 ly. What would become of our 

 rivers, streams and lakes were we 

 to denude the land here of all its 

 timber growth. 



That the burning of settlers' slash 

 can be done judiciously we have 

 ample proof in our neighboring pro- 

 vince, where strict laws of forest 

 protection are enforced and the 

 clearing there is going ahead at a 

 perhaps greater ratio than in our 

 own province." 



Paper Shirts for Soldiers 



It is said the paper shirts made in 

 Japan are now being served out to 

 Russian soldiers for use in the cold 

 and wet weather. A number of 

 these paper shirts were used by the 

 Russians last winter and they prov- 

 ed to be much warmer and cheaper 

 than ordinary shirts. The paper is 

 made from the bark of the paper 

 mulberry tree. Shirts of this kind 

 have been used by the Japanese 

 army and people for many years, 

 their only drawback being that they 

 cannot be washed. 



One Year's Pencils 



The world's production of lead 

 pencils probably amounts to nearly 

 two million a year, half of which 

 are made from American grown 

 cedar. Owing to the growing scar- 

 city of red cedar and to the fact that 

 many other trees now little used ap- 

 pear to be more or less valuable sub- 

 stitutes for that wood in pencil 

 making, the U. S. Forest Service has 

 carried out a series of tests which 

 show that next to the two species 

 heretofore used for the purpose the 

 best trees are in order of merit, 

 Rocky Mountain Red cedar. Red- 

 wood, Port Orford cedar, and Alli- 

 gator juniper. 



Merchantable Timber 



(From Mr. G. C. Piche's report 

 in Quebec Statistical Year Book.) : 



Provinces. Millions of acres 



Nova Scotia 5 



New Brunswick 9 



Quebec 130 



Ontario 70 



British Columbia 100 



Manitoba 



Saskatchewan 100 



Alberta 



Total 414 



Bushmen's Battalion 



A report states that permission 

 has been granted to lumbermen now 

 attached to overseas battalions of 

 the 2nd Divisional Area to be trans- 

 ferred to the 224th Foresters' Bat- 

 talion of Ottawa. 



The Battalion will mobilize at 

 Quebec early in April and will be 

 ready for the transports within five 

 weeks from the time the war office 

 asked for it. The officers in com- 

 mand are Lt.-Col. Alex. McDougall, 

 Major Gerald White, M.P., and 

 Major B. R. Hepburn, M.P. 



