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Laboratories of Canada were established in Mon- 

 treal. There the Forestry Branch of the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, in cooperation with McGill 

 University, is doing work similar to that done in 

 the United States Forest Products Laboratories at 

 Madison, Wisconsin. 



In these laboratories trained men, aided by 

 accurate instruments, test the strength, durability, 

 toughness, and hardness of different woods. They 

 find out the best ways to treat telephone poles, 

 mine timbers, railway ties, and pavement blocks so 

 that they will resist damp and decay, and need not 

 be speedily renewed. 



They find out the best and least wasteful way 

 to make wood-pulp paper, and wood alcohol, and 

 they think out and test means of using what the 

 lumber mills have been wasting. The work in 

 Montreal has started in a fine old dwelling house 

 placed at the disposal of the Laboratory, for four 

 years, by McGill University. Indirectly such work 

 keeps the forests alive. 



The Canadian fire rangers and forest service 

 men, penetrating as they do into the depths of 

 wild woods, are required to report the number of 

 game animals which they see on the reserves. 



Big game was once very abundant in the Cana- 

 dian Rockies, but in recent years the animals have 

 been hunted so ruthlessly that there seems to be 

 danger of their becoming extinct. So some Cana- 

 dian forest reserves are now game preserves also. 



