Canadian Forestry Journal, June, igi6. 



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Maine's Appropriation 



The state of Maine makes an an- 

 nual aporopriation of $71,400 for 

 forestry^ work. Of this, $69,400 is 

 expended on fire protection, $1,000 

 on nurseries and reforestation work, 

 and the balance on investigations 

 and publications. 



In Massachusetts, the annual 

 forestry appropriation is $83,000, of 

 which S33.000 is for fire protection, 

 $10,000 for nurseries and reforesta- 

 tion \york. and $20,000 for the pur- 

 chase and maintenance of state 

 forests. The remainder, $20,000, is 

 expended for administration, publi- 

 cations and investigation. 



Captain Herchmer Wounded 



Captain Lawrence Gerald Herch- 

 mer, son of Mr. F. K. Herchmer, dis- 

 trict inspector of forest reserves for 

 Manitoba, who is with a battalion 

 of Highlanders from Winnipeg, was 

 wounded on the 29th April, by a 

 compound fracture of the lower jaw. 

 The setting was done on the 4th 

 May and by the 9th he was reported 

 to be out of danger and doing well. 



Our Forestry Battalion 



So pleased is the War Office Avith 

 the work of the Forestrv battalion 

 under Lt. Col. Alex. Macdougall that 

 Canada has been asked to send two 

 thoiteand more lumbermen. 



The 1,500 men who have gone are 

 engaged in cutting down the forests 

 in Great Britain to supply the short- 

 age of lumber. 



The new battalion will be under 

 the command of Lt. Col. J. B. White 

 of Montreal, a director of the Cana- 

 dian Forestry Association, who is 

 now in England. The organization 

 will be done by Lieut. J. W. Hugh- 

 son of the firm of Gilmour & Hugh- 

 son. 



The equipment of the Canadian 

 Foresters is so well liked by the 

 British government that it has de- 

 cided to equip English forestry bat- 

 talions in a similar manner. 



Canadian Timber Values 



According to a recent Commerce 

 Report the values of the various 

 classes of timber produced in Can- 

 ada in 1914, together with the values 

 of the forest products, total $176,- 

 672,000, being divided as follows: 

 Lumber, lath and shingles, $67,500,- 

 000; fire wood, $60,500,000; pulp- 

 wood, $15,500,000; posts and rails, 

 $9,500,000; cross ties, $9,000,000; 

 square timber' exported, $400,000; 

 cooperage, $1,900,000; poles, $700,- 

 000 ; logs exported, $850,000 ; tanning 

 material, $22,000 ; round mining tim- 

 bers, $500,000; miscellaneous ex- 

 ports, $300,000; miscellaneous prod- 

 ucts, $10,000,000. 



Prairie Lumber Industry 

 Although the prairie provinces are 

 usually associated with but one pur- 

 suit, namely, farming, the forested 

 portions give rise to a lum.berin.g in- 

 dustry of importance, and, while in- 

 ferior in development to those of 

 British Columbia or the eastern 

 provinces, are of great value to the 

 immigrant settlement in the ^vest. 

 In 1913 some 188 mills in Manitoba, 

 Saskatchewan and Alberta sawed 

 approximately 250 million feet of 

 lumber, valued at the point of manu- 

 facture at over $4,260,000. Of this 

 quantity, Saskatchewan forest pro- 

 duced approximately two-thirds. 

 Alberta one-fifth, and Manitoba the 

 balance. The prairie market con- 

 sumes about 1,434 million feet of 

 lumber annually. Over one-half of 

 this comes from British Columbia 

 (in part from the Railway Belt por- 

 tion), and the remainder is supplied 

 from northwestern Ontario, the 

 United States, and the home forests. 

 — Forest protection in Canada, 1913. 



