Canadian Forestry Journal, October, ipi6 



781 



for engines, but will be operated under 

 sail until the engines, which now cost 

 double the normal prices, can be pur- 

 chased advantageously. There is a 

 likelihood that other companies now 

 investigating the question will build 

 ships. The markets for which these 

 boats are being built are Australasia, 

 China and Africa. 



Mr. McMillan says that oversea buy- 

 ers have always advanced as one argu- 

 ment in favour of buying in the United 

 States the more extended lumber 

 manufacturing facilities existing on the 

 Pacific coast of that country as com- 

 pared with Canada, but upon having 

 discussed this point recently with the 

 leading operators of mills and several 

 of the leading owners of stumpage, a 

 ■conclusion that a betterment of Cana- 

 dian conditions is now in sight was 

 reached. 



ed for text-book use in agricultural col- 

 leges and high schools. It is the out- 

 growth of lectures delivered to agricul- 

 tural students throughout several 

 years. 



The author's aim has been to treat 

 the subject from the broad standpoint 

 of the woodlots in the great plains and 

 prairie regions as well as in more east- 



ern regions. 



"Farm Forestry," 



(By John Arden Ferguson, A.M., 

 M.F., Professor of Forestry at the 



Pennsylvania State College.) 

 This book, just received by the Ca- 

 nadian Forestry Journal, covers the 

 subject of forestry as applied to the 

 farm woodlot, and is especially intend- 



The subjects included are those of 

 essential interest to the agriculturist. 

 The establishment of the woodlot, both 

 by seeding or planting and by natural 

 methods, is discussed with hints as to 

 the best trees to plant in different sec- 

 tions. The care and protection of the 

 woodlot is treated and also the very 

 important subject of woodlot manage- 

 ment. A conception of the woodlot as 

 forest capital is given, with suggestions 

 as to the amount of wood to remove 

 annually and the methods of securing 

 a sustained annual yield. Chapters 

 are also devoted to the harvesting and 

 marketing of woodlot products and to 

 wood preservation. In the apendix 

 there is included a suggested list of 

 practicum exercises for a course in 

 farm forestry. — Book Department Ca- 

 nadian Forestry Journal f$1.25). 



Severe Forest Laws of Plymouth Fathers 



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y 



In a recent issue of the Journal, an 

 article told of the strict laws for pre- 

 vention of forest fires instituted by 

 'Governor Simpson and Council of the 

 Hudson Bay Company in the early 

 years of Canadian history. 



Even more interesting reminders of 

 the austere regard of our great grand- 

 fathers for forest preservation are con- 

 tained in a publication written by J. P. 

 Kinney of Cornell University, entitled 

 ■^'Forest Legislation in America Prior 

 to March 4, 1789." It will be a reve- 

 lation to most readers of the Journal 

 to learn that forest preservation and 

 extension in America did not have 

 their real beginnings in the nineteenth 



century, but "that forestry and timber 

 problems had claimed the attention of 

 colonial legislative bodies on many oc- 

 casions during the seventeenth cen- 

 tury, and that hundreds of such laws 

 had been enacted previous to the es- 

 tablishment of the national govern- 

 ment." 



Timber "Famine" in 1626. 



Many years previous to the adoption 

 of the Federal Constitution on March 

 4, 1789, many of the colonies, as was 

 natural, had been brought to realize 

 the ill effects of forest fires, attempt- 

 ing, as they were, to wrest a liveli- 

 hood from what then was in reality an 



