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Canadian Forestry Jorirnal, November, iqi6 



A scene in woods operations of the 224th Canadian Forestry Battalion in the North of Scotland. 



pine shown here is about 150 years old. 



The 



In Scotland with the Canadian 

 Forestry Battalion 



A Running Description of Unique Conditions Encountered 

 by the Khaki Woodsmen from the Dominion 



B\ D. H. Smith. 



Perhaps one of the most interesting 

 emergency committees arising out of 

 the world war is that of "The Home- 

 grown Timber Committee," which had 

 its rise in the Department of Agricul- 

 ture in the British House of Com- 

 mons. 



As the vastness of the war began to 

 impress itself upon the minds of our 

 statesmen, and the submarine tactics 

 of Germany became a factor in the 

 struggle, the Government was brought 

 face to face with the problem of the 



supply of the great quantities of tim- 

 ber products required to carry on oper- 

 ations in France. The submarines of 

 Germany were causing trouble on the 

 sea, and bottoms were fast becoming 

 too scarce to permit of large lumber 

 shipments. The American firms, 



while anxious for orders for lumber 

 from our Governments, were not in a 

 position to contract to lay the mate- 

 rial down in Europe owing to the ab- 

 sence of an adequate American mer- 

 chant marine. Norwav and Sweden 



