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Canadian Forestry Journal, May. ipi6. 



New Brunswick's Forest Survey 



The sensible determination of the 

 New Brunswick Government to 

 have a definite survey of the timber 

 resources of the province is given an 

 interesting testimony in the 1915 re- 

 turns of the quantity of lumber cut. 

 In 1905 the total was 107,705,676 

 superficial feet. This increased gra- 

 duallv until it reached 149,510,471 

 feet in 1907. During 1909 it jumped 

 to 205,761.583 feet, and in 1910 made 

 a still greater gain, reaching 281,- 

 716,402 feet. During the following 

 year, 1911, the high level was reach- 

 ed for the ten year period from 1905 

 to 1915, viz., 309,883,428 feet. Dur- 

 ing 1912-13-14 the amount declined, 

 reaching 270.221,155 feet in 1913. 

 Then in 1915, on account of the de- 

 mand arising out of the war. it in- 

 creased again and reached 290,120,- 

 823 feet. 



The latter figure is said to be a 

 little in excess of the estimated an- 

 nual growth on the Crown Lands of 

 the province. Mr. P. Z. Caverhill, 

 late of the British Columbia Forest 

 Service, has been placed in charge 

 of the survey work and will prob- 

 ably have three or four field parties 

 out this summer, comprising thirty 

 or forty men. The number of field 

 parties will gradually be increased 

 to eight or ten and the whole work 



will probably occupy from four to 

 five years. 



The revenue to the Government 

 from the lumber industry for the 

 year ending October 31, 1915, was 

 the largest on record : 



From the Canada Lumberman. 



"Under these conditions it be- 

 comes imperative for the province 

 to undertake a definite survey of its 

 timber resources, so that its cutting 

 policy may be directed along safe 

 lines. Because the quantity cut may 

 be the same as the quantity shown 

 to be the annual growth, does not 

 mean that the forests are being cut 

 in a safe manner. The important 

 thing is to make sure that the proper 

 trees are being cut, those which are 

 mature and those which, being cut, 

 will give others a better opportunity 

 to reach maturity. The indiscrimin- 

 ate cutting of small logs is a mis- 

 take, so far as the welfare of the for- 

 ests is concerned, and the govern- 

 ment of New Brunswick must pay 

 special attention, under the condi- 

 tions which exist to-day, to the 

 proper regulation of cutting, so as to 

 get the best results out of the forests 

 and at the same time give reasonable 

 encouragement to the lumber indus- 

 trv." 



The Use of W oodFlour 



• More than twenty thousand tons 

 of wood flour, valued at $300,000 are 

 used annually in the United States 

 in two widely different industries. 

 the manufacture of dynamite and the 

 manufacture of inlaid linoleum. 



Wood flour is also used in making 

 composition flooring, oat-meal pa- 

 per, and in several other industries. 

 It forms one of the means by which 

 the huge waste product of our lum- 

 ber mills is beginning to find some 

 better means of disposal than the 

 burner. Since a total of 36.000.000 

 cords of such waste is produced 

 each vear at sawmills, in the United 



States, of which about one-half goes 

 into the furnace as fuel, while the 

 rest is burned as refuse to get rid of 

 it. there is no lack of raw material 

 for industries which can develop 

 ways of burning this waste to ac- 

 count. 



All wood flour-using industries 

 require a white' or very light cream- 

 colored flour having good absorptive 

 powers. The wood species that 

 may be used are confined to the 

 light, non-resinous conifers, and 

 poplar are the species most used. 

 Mill waste, free from bark, furnishes 

 much of the raw material for mak- 

 ins: wood flour. 



