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Canadian Forestry Journal, May, ipi6. 



side of those connecting two places 

 or points, should be of two kinds, 

 viz., patrolling trails, preferably on 

 the tops of ridges, and fire trails or 

 feeders to strategical points. Main 

 trails should be eight feet wide and 

 all others four feet, grades being not 

 greater than one in seven. 



IndicTand Canada's Trade 



One of the newspapers of India 

 thus comments upon the visit of Mr. 

 H. R. MacMillan, Special Lumber 

 Trade Commissioner for Canada : 



"In the past five or six years we 

 have heard of very nearly all our 

 colonies sending abroad all over the 

 world Special Trade Commissioners. 

 I have not seen it suggested that the 

 Government of India have ever con- 

 sidered the question of appointing 

 such Trade Commissioners to travel 

 around and consider trade questions 

 affecting his country. With all the 

 talk we hear of India getting some 

 larger share of the world's business 

 after the war is over, it rather strikes 

 one that the present would be. an 

 excellent time for a representative 

 of Government in the Commerce and 

 Industry Department to make a tour 

 round and see a few things from a 

 practical point of view in relation to 

 Indian trade requirements and the 

 capabilities in the way of supplying 

 products. The Cana'dian Govern- 

 ment_ saw the possibilities of the 

 position months ago and we have in 

 Calcutta now the Chief Forester of 

 British Columbia who has been sent 

 round the world by his Government 

 as a Special Lumber Trade Com- 

 missioner; one of the ideas of Mr. 

 MacMillan's commission seems to 

 be an investigation as to the possi- 

 bility some day in the near future of 

 trade reciprocity between Canada 

 and India. Hitherto, as is well 

 known, such Indian commodities as 

 there is a demand for in Canada 

 have gone into the Dominion Col- 

 onies via America with the assis- 

 tance of American finance and 

 through American merchants. But 



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