Canadian Forestry Journal, December, iqi6 



865 



On the Field of Honor. 



We regret to report the death at the 

 front of another student of the Forest 

 School of Toronto University — Second 

 Lieut- James Douglas Aiken, attached 

 to the Royal Field Artillery of the 

 British Army. Mr. Aiken's home was 

 in London, Ontario, where he obtained 

 his primary education, going up to To- 

 ronto for the teachnical course at the 

 Forest School, which he completed last 

 January. He was a member of the 

 C. O, T. C, and one of the first draft 

 of 41 officers chosen to receive commis- 

 sions in the British Army. He had 

 been on the Somme front since March, 

 and was personally congratulated by 

 the General of his di\ision on Easter 

 Monday 



Mr. Aiken worked for two summers 

 for the Dominion Forestry Branch, 

 during the summer of 1914 being en- 

 gaged as student assistant on traverse 

 surveys in the Rocky Mountains For- 

 est Reserve, and in the summer of 

 1915 in charge of a survey in Eastern 

 Manitoba. 



Sawdust Cement for Floors. 

 In answer to a letter written to the 

 Forest Products Laboratory at Madi- 

 son, Wis., with a view of ascertaining 

 for an xA.ustralian correspondent a for- 

 mula for a sawdust-cement composi- 

 tion for sawmill floors and other pur- 

 poses. The Timberman, of Portland, 

 Ore., is in receipt of the following re- 

 ply: 



"Madison, Wis., Sept. 26, 1916. 



"The Timberman: There are a num- 

 ber of different kinds of sawdust and 

 cement compositions used In the manu- 

 facture of flooring for offices, mills, 

 barns, etc. We took this matter up 

 rather recently with one of the other 

 government bureaus which was inter- 

 ested in the subject, and also with the 

 Portland Cement Association. It ap- 

 pears that entirely satisfactory floors 

 composed of cement and sawdust have 

 been laid and are at present in service. 

 On the other hand, the cement associa- 

 tion, judging from the tone of the cor- 

 respondence which we have had with 

 it, does not believe that sawdust and 

 cement mixture are practical mate- 

 rials for floors." 



Repulping Paper. 

 An American inventor has discover- 

 ed a means of utilizing a waste digester 

 liquor for removing ink and color from 

 waste news and without discoloring 

 the fibre, so that the paper may be re- 

 pulped. "I have discovered," he says, 

 'that by subjecting waste print paper, 

 either in a pulped state or in the whole, 

 to the action of spent digester liquors, 

 under any temperature, for the space 

 of one hour or more, then washing the 

 pulp with fresh water, all ink or color- 

 ing matter that may be in*" the paper 

 will be entirely removed, and without 

 discoloring the fibres of the mechanical 

 wood pulp, leaving the same fit to be 

 re-made into white paper. If the 

 waste paper be first pulped, it may be 

 charged into a beater vat filled with 

 either of these spent digester liquors, 

 and by the action of the beating en- 

 gine all ink or coloring matter will be 

 entirely freed from the pulp. The sol- 

 vent may then be drained off and the 

 pulp washed in fresh water, leaving the 

 same in a state to be re-made into 

 white paper." 



GROWTH OF N. Y. STATE 



FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



^ The Executive Committee of the 

 New York State Forestry Association 

 has announced that Mr. V^ictor A. 

 Beede, Assistant State Forester of New 

 Hampshire, will be the permanent Exe- 

 cutive Secretary with headquarters at 

 the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, 

 Syracuse, N.Y. 



Mr. Beede is a graduate of Yale 

 University, the Yale Forest School, and 

 before^ntering the U. S. Forest Ser- 

 vice studied forest conditions in Ger- 

 many, France and Switzerland- 



With a Secretary to give his entire 

 time to editing the magazine, increas- 

 ing the membership and the general 

 activities of the Association, a most 

 successful year is anticipated. Mr. 

 Beede possesses qualifications of a high 

 order, and will undoubtedly build up a 

 strong association in New York State. 



