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CUuiadiaii Forestry Journal, June, ipid. 



Canadian Woodsmen Interest the English 



London. June 10. — The timber 

 problem sui:)plies a very interesting- 

 sidelight on the war. It is being- 

 dealt with speedily and efficiently, 

 and very shortly the expert Cana- 

 dian lumbermen who are over here 

 engaged in the scientific method of 

 thinning out certain of our most 

 famous woodlands and hewing and 

 shapmg the timber for immediate 

 use will be working at full pressure. 

 To get to work in earnest they are 

 only waiting- the arrival of their 

 milling macliinery. 



At present they are marking down 

 and surveying certain tracts of for- 

 est land, "blazing" the trees — main- 

 ly the soft wood trees of pine and 

 fir — and so arranging their scheme 

 of attack that the beauties of our 

 rural scenes shall not be unneces- 

 saril}" marred. 



Yesterday afternoon, in the course 

 of a long walk through the beauti- 

 ful Forest of . certain parts of 



which have been earmarked for 

 slaughter, a Daily Mail representa- 

 ti\-e met a little party of pioneers 

 surveying. 



Soldier-Trappers. 

 They were brown .lithe woods- 

 men — half-soldiers, half trapper, 

 and wholly romantic. They were 

 diagnosing the cases of certain tall. 

 feathery-toi)ped pines very much as 

 a doctor deals with his patient, and 

 jotting do\\n their calculations in a 

 charted case-book. Already behind 

 them could be heard the battle- 

 music of saw and axe. broken into 

 now and again by the sudden scream 

 of the steam-driven ''circular." Sun- 

 dr\- gaps appeared now and again in 

 the dark line of foliage — each gap 

 meant the fall of a giant, and no 

 giant has ever been dismembered so 

 speedilv as he. Half an hour ago a 

 king of the glade, he was npw a neat 

 pile of railway sleepers ready for the 

 track. 



'Tf we had all our tackle here," 

 said one of the pioneers, "I guess 

 we'd be able to turn you out a com- 

 l)lete box of matches from the waste 

 product of that tree — and do it while 

 you wait !" 



This soft-voiced, keen-eyed young 

 man seemed to know everything 

 there is to know about the trees and 

 the forests of the inhabited globe, 

 and how to make the best use of 

 them. "You in Great Britain have 

 over two and' a half million acres 

 of forest," he said, "and as a war- 

 time asset trees and their product 

 are so much fine gold — properly 

 handled. 



Valuable By-products. 



"Apart from the timber proper, 

 which is so much in demand for 

 military purposes, the by-products 

 are extremely Aaluable. In ordi- 

 nary times the Austrian forests pro- 

 duce between four and five million 

 hundredweights of tanning bark 

 alone. Then there are very large 

 quantities of turpentine and potash 

 and gallnuts 'extracted' from the 

 trees as well. 



"In France the term of maturity 

 for cutting- the forests is determined 

 l)y a committee of skilled officers 

 and divided up into so many years, 

 with each series of years represent- 

 ing so many blocks of forest to be 

 felled. The annual cutting is so 

 arranged as to cover a certain ex- 

 tent of ground, so that when one 

 block is felled another reaches ma- 

 turity." 



Gold Mine in IJ'ood. 



Our Canadian visitors are struck 

 at the richness and the beauty of our 

 own magnificent stretches of forest. 

 The English Crown woods alone 

 cover about 125,000 acres, with the 

 standing timber valued at anything 

 between two and three million 

 pounds. 



