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Canadian Forestry Journal, October, ipi6 



It is quite true that paper can be 

 made from these various commodities, 

 but the cost of providing it in commer- 

 cial quantities is so great as to prohibit 

 the development of any such industry. 

 Doubtless, the Germans are hard put 

 to and will be forced to substitute many 

 inferior commodities for the materials 

 they formerly used. This will be true 

 not only of paper making, but in con- 

 nection with munitions and all kinds of 

 industry. 



The Pulp and Paper Magazine has 

 no great fears that a substitute will be 

 found for wood pulp, so in our opinion 

 possessors of valuable timber and pulp 

 forests can go to sleep at nights with- 

 out worrying. Wood is stil Isupreme 

 for paper making. 



Approximately 330,000 cords of wood 

 waste with a value of $1,400,000, were 

 utilized by 35 of the 200 pulp and paper 

 mills of the United States. It is 

 thought that as the price of cord wood 

 goes up, the amount of wood waste 

 used will become greater. 



2.000.000 envelopes and 5,000,000 let- 

 terheads have been sent to the Mexican 

 border for use of United States troops. 



One ton of coniferous wood waste 

 will produce from fifteen to twenty-five 

 gallons of 190-proof alcohol. 



The farm woodlots of the United 

 States contain about 10 per cent, of the 

 total standing timber in the country. 



The bark of black oak, or "yellow 

 oak" as it is often called on account of 

 the color of the inner bark, is now used 

 for dye-making. 



From Toronto "Globe." 



"It is most deplorable that the lesson 

 o fthe recent fire disaster is passing un- 

 heeded by the Ontario Government. 

 That the clay-belt fire in July last was 

 the third most serious fire catastrophe 

 in the history of the continent is point- 

 ed out by the Canadian Forestry Asso- 

 ciation in a circular appealing for the 

 adoption of efficient protective mea- 

 sures. Ontario has made no such 

 move toward the adoption of effective 

 measures, although she has suffered 

 the greatest of recent disasters. Such 

 neglect is simply intolerable." 



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