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Canadian Forestry Journal, December, igi6 



MONTREAL STAR ON 



WASTE OF THE FORESTS. 



In the report of the Canadian Fores- 

 try Association for the current year, it 

 is very clearly shown that with better 

 g-uardianship of forests the danger of 

 conflagrations would be immensely re- 

 duced. "The point we wish to em- 

 phasize," says the report, "is that the 

 cost of vigorous and efficient forest 

 guarding is a mere trifle compared 

 with the amount of timber which effi- 

 cient patrolling, etc., would save." Sta- 

 tistics in the report prove that in 1916 

 the forest fire losses totalled over nine 

 million dollars. The fact is dwelt 

 upon that in districts where the patrol 

 service is satisfactory, fires are nearly 

 unknown, but that the menace to the 

 forest wealth is always in districts 

 where the patrolling is poor, spasmodic 

 and lacks efficiency. Facts such as 

 these should be taken into serious con- 

 sideration by the Government. The 

 immense boon of forests is recognized 

 in all countries, and the most earnest 

 'efforts are made to preserve timber- 

 As to the origin of most of the forest 

 fires in this country, facts show they 

 are due very largely to carelessness. 

 Laws are now being enacted in various 

 provinces making it incumbent on set- 

 tlers to get special permission before 

 proceeding to clear spaces by the use 

 of fire. It has been a matter of the 

 deepest regret in many countries that 

 adequate steps were not taken to pro- 

 tect forests, and they are setting aside 

 immense areas for tree planting; but 

 it will take generations before most of 

 the trees reach maturity and can be of 

 any commercial value. It behooves 

 Canada to take this object lesson to 

 heart. 



Bricks Without Straw. 



According to a despatch from Water- 

 town, N.Y-, a new process of making 

 news-print without use of sulphite is 

 to revolutionize the paper-making- in- 

 dustry. The despatch appeared in the 

 daily press a day or two ago as fol- 

 lows : , 



"Watertown, N.Y., November 28.— 

 A process of news-print paper manu- 

 facturing that is expected to revolu- 

 tionize the paper making industry was 

 proclaimed a success here to-day. It 



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