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commission, 

 forces or in 

 seas. Thirty 

 commissions 

 vacation and 

 next month. 

 The New 

 School, the 

 Branch, and 



either in the Canadian 



the British army over- 



-one went over to take 



during the Christmas 



another bunch will go 



Brunswick Forestry 



Dominion Forestry 



the various provincial 



forest ser\ices are being- restricted 

 in their work through enlistment. 

 Of the graduates of our school em- 

 ployed in forestry work, some fifty 

 in number, 40 per cent, have enlist- 

 ed up to date. The forest services 

 have lost their non-technical men, 

 such as rangers, guards, etc., in 

 about the same proportion. 



Canadian Timber for Government Works 



Henceforth Canadian timber only 

 is to be used in all public works 

 undertaken by the Dominion Gov- 

 ernment. Such a policy can very 

 easily be followed, so far as supply 

 is concerned, for it is a fact that 

 Canada is one of the greatest of 

 tree-growing lands. Except in the 

 prairie country, the forest is never 

 far distant, and in it are to be found 

 trees suitable for practically every 

 work in which wood enters. With 

 proper management, which is now 

 iDcing attempted on a considerable 

 scale, supplies need never become 

 exhausted. It is not a difficult mat- 

 ter to allow, and help, new forest 

 crops to grow where trees are cut 

 down for industrial purposes. 



There are many varieties of big 

 trees in Canada, a score of which are 

 well-known and plentiful, and which 

 are used for various purposes. The 

 largest is the Douglas fir, named 

 after David Douglas, who discover- 

 ed its worth as long ago as 1825. 

 This truly splendid timber tree 

 ranges in height from 175 to 300 

 feet and has a long, clear trunk, from 

 which large timbers of even diam- 

 eter are secured. The wood is em- 

 ployed in heavy construction work 

 and for masts and poles. The 

 Douglas fir's habitat is British 

 Columbia, and also the Rock Moun- 

 tain part of Alberta. In the same 

 territory, also, grows the western 

 red cedar, very much in demand for 

 shingles, interior woodwork and 

 doors. Other cedar trees are to be 



found from Manitoba to the Atlan- 

 tic, rising to a height of from 50 to 

 60 feet. Their wood is valued for 

 its rot-resisting qualities. Fence 

 posts and telegraph poles are made 

 from cedar. 



The embleiTi of Canada is the 

 maple leaf, and the beautiful tree on 

 which it grows thrives wherever the 

 land is good. There are several 

 species and the hard or sugar maple 

 is the most valued hardwood tree in 

 the country. Its wood enters into 

 furniture, flooring, shipbuilding, 

 railway car construction, tool han- 

 dles, etc. In the forest the maple 

 rises 100 feet and more and has a 

 diameter of from two to five feet. 

 The Canadian oak is about the same 

 height and is put to much the same 

 uses. Hard birch is employed most 

 extensively by manufacturers, es- 

 pecially in the making of cars, car- 

 riages and furniture. The elm 

 furnishes strong, tough wood, and 

 the ash tree is favored by the pro- 

 ducers of baskets, barrel hoops, 

 boats, coars, ball bats, and like arti- 

 cles. The spruce tree, which ranges 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 

 gives a soft light wood, much used 

 for lumber and pulp for paper-mak- 

 ing. Other useful timber trees in- 

 clude the chestnut, cherry, hickory 

 and the basswood. Indeed, the 

 trees of the Dominion are of many 

 varieties and in sufficient quantity 

 to fill every need. They are a great 

 source of national wealth. 



