808 Canadian Forestry Journal, November, ipi6 



GROWTH IN VALUE OF EXPORTS OF FOREST PRODUCTS 



For the first eight months of the present year, January to August, inclusive, 



the increase is 18 per cent, as compared with 1915, and 25 per cent, as compared 



with 1914: 



1913. 1914. 1915. 1916. 



January $1,983,980 $2,159,088 $1,811,049 $3,243,360 



February 2,212,485 1,961,206 2,342,590 2,595,420 



March 2,359,351 2,694.986 3,440,941 3,247,691 



April 1,869,715 1,847,739 1,929,440 2,287,939 



May 3,039.563 3.296,455 3,487,103 4,174,038 



June ■ 4,323,636 4,511,249 4,904,152 5,846,672 



July 4,938,716 5,097.065 5,876,784 7,257,805 



August 5,063,551 4,256,635 5,846.897 6,209,357 



September 5,347,458 4.945,471 6,527,625 



October 4,505,067 4,935,715 5,503.343 



November 4,107.090 3,439.970 4,556,502 



December 2,782,061 2,698,804 3,553,083 



Totals $42,532,673 $41,871,383 $49,779,509 *$34,862,282 



*Eight months. 



White Pine Endangered by Disease 



During the past summer several in- ers and other official representatives 



spectors under direction of Mr. E. J. from New Hampshire, Vermont, New 



Zavitz, Provincial Forester of Ontario, york. Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and 



have conducted a systematic examma- Massachusetts, met at Fall River, 

 tion of areas of the provmce infected ' , ^r , 



with blister rust, a dangerous disease Massachusetts, on September 25, at the 



of White Pine. The results of their invitation of the Massachusetts State 



work are now being prepared for publi- Board of Agriculture, to examine a se- 



cation in the annual report of the De- rious outbreak of the white pine blister 



partment of Lands, Forests and Mines, rust on native white pine. This ex- 



The disease has been found in several amination proved plainly to all that the 



points throughout the older part of the blister rust is a deadly enemy of the 



province, in Simcoe, Durham, Welling- white pine. 



ton and Victoria counties ; the latter Reports given by the representatives 

 are said to be of limited scope and from of the states showed that the white pine 

 present appearances can be eradicated, blister rust is already widely prevalent 

 The most seriously diseased area is throughout the New England States 

 along the Niagara Peninsula, and in and eastern New York, and as this dan- 

 this region action to overcome the gerous disease uses the currant and 

 trouble presents a difficult problem, gooseberry as a host plant to grow 

 During the fall and winter a consider- upon, and spreads very rapidly from 

 able number of pine will be taken from currant to currant and from the cur- 

 diseased areas- The Minister, Hon. rant to the pine, it was the unanimous 

 G. H. Ferguson, is giving every aid to opinion of all present that, as the only 

 the solution of the problem. way to avert the impending catas- 



The following bulletin issued by the trophe and save the white pine would 



Massachusetts State Board of Agricul- be through a complete destruction of 



ture is informing: all currant and gooseberry bushes and 



Trouble in the U. S. flowering currants, the public should 



State nursery inspectors, state forest- be given this information at once. 



