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Canadian Forestry Journal, September, ipi6 



IVork of Staking. 

 After the hole has been filled in, 

 to prevent the tree from getting out 

 of vertical by settling of the earth 

 and the swaying of the top in the 

 wind, a guard stake should be used. 

 A single stake is sufficient for any 

 situation in which there is little dan- 

 ger from damage by children or ve- 

 hicles. Otherwise, a secure crate 

 the full height of the trunk should 

 be constructed about it. The sin- 

 gle stake should be long and rigid 

 enough to be driven at least two feet 

 into the ground and still support the 

 tree six or seven feet above the 

 ground. The tree should then be 

 attached to the stake in several 

 places. A piece of manilla rope run 

 through a piece of old rubber hose 

 which has been bent about the tree 

 serves as a good fastener. The hose 

 minimizes the chafing. 



Canada's Pulo Exoorts. 



A Washington despatch to the 

 New York Sun says: 



"Over two-thirds of the more 

 than a billion i^ounds of wood-pulp 

 imported into the United States dur- 

 ing the fiscal vear ending June 30, 

 1916, and used in the manufacture 

 of paper, came from Canada," ac- 

 cording to a communication to the 

 National Geographical Society from 

 John Oliver La Gorce and issued by 

 the society as a bulletin in connec- 

 tion with the government's incjuiry 

 into the increase in the cost of news- 

 paper. 



"The pulp importations for 1915- 

 16 have been 180,000,000 pounds 

 less than for the previous twelve 

 months, vet the amount shipped to 

 us from Canada during the past year 

 was 130,000,000 pounds in excess of 

 her 1914-15 shipments. 



"During the year just closed near- 

 ly 70 per cent, of our 1,135,000,000 

 pounds of pulp came from our neigh- 

 bor to the north, while most of the 

 remainder came from Norway and 

 Sweden." 



Preparedness Needed. 



(Berlin, Ont., Telegraph.) 

 "Manifestly what Northern Onta- 

 rio needs as a permanent policy is 

 one of preparedness against forest 

 fires, and it is equally manifest that 

 the villages and towns of our hinter- 

 land have had no such policy in the 

 past. Had the reverse been the 

 case the terrible conflagration and 

 holocaust of last week might have 

 been averted, and this land of pro- 

 mise saved from a disastrous blow 

 from which it will take 'many years 

 to recover." 



After enumerating the reforms 

 asked for Ijy the Canadian Forestry 

 Association, the Telegraph con- 

 tinues : 



"It is a thousand pities that these 

 precautionary measures have not 

 been adopted, and the Ontario gov- 

 ernment cannot escape a certain 

 amount of responsibility in connec- 

 ti(Mi therewith, but there will be a 

 criminal responsibility if there is any 

 further neglect in this all-important 

 matter." 



Placing Responsibility. 



(Canada Lumberman.) 

 \\'e often hear it said that the fire 

 ranging problem is too great to be 

 solved, that it cannot be handled ef- 

 fectively. There is no truth in this 

 statement. It is the excuse of in- 

 competence or indilterence. It is 

 simply a cjuestion of organization 

 and the employment of experienced 

 rangers. 



"The timber owners of Northern 

 Ontario find the Government un- 

 questionably guilty of neglecting 

 their duty, and alone responsible for 

 the great losses that are so frequent- 

 ly sustained by the timber owners 

 and settlers^ themselves. These 

 timber owners have shown the Gov- 

 ernment how to handle the problem 

 and they are naturally indignant at 

 the feeble manner in which both the 

 present and all former governments 

 of Ontario have dealt with the situa- 

 tion." 



