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FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO., 
346 Broadway, New York. 
[May 4. 1907. 
CEDAR GROWING SCARCER EACH YEAR. 
The lead pencil is one of the most common 
articles in everyday use, and nearly 320,000,000 
pencils are manufactured in this country every 
year. To manufacture these pencils there are 
required 110.000 tons, or 7,300,000 cubic feet of 
wood, so that each day in the year 300 tons, or 
20,000 cubic feet of wood are used for pencils. 
Since practically all of the wood is red cedar, 
and since the pencil industry is steadily grow¬ 
ing, the supply of red cedar is greatly depleted; 
yet no substitute has been found for it. Leav¬ 
ing out of consideration the imported pencils, 
the average educated American over ten years 
of age uses six pencils of home manufacture each 
year. Ten years ago he used less than five. 
Red cedar has a soft, straight grain, and when 
grown under best conditions is very free from 
defects. Because of its peculiar qualities no 
equally good substitute for it has ever been found, 
and it is doubtful if any other wood-using in¬ 
dustry is so dependent upon a single species as 
the pencil industry is- dependent upon red cedar. 
In fact, red cedar, suitable for pencil manufac¬ 
ture, is the only wood the price of which is 
always quoted by the pound. 
Strange as it may seem, no steps have here¬ 
tofore been taken to provide for ,a future supply 
of red cedar. This has been largely due to a 
lack of information on the rate of growth and 
the habits of the tree, and to the widespread be¬ 
lief. that second-growth red cedar, never reaches 
merchantable size. 
In accordance with its policy toward the con¬ 
servation and economic use of commercial woods 
the Forest Service has made a careful study qi 
red cedar and has. come to the conclusion that il 
can profitably be grown in regions of its develop 
ment. Several changes are recommended ii 
present forest management in order to secure the 
desired growth. In the southern forests the 
cedar will have to be given a better chance in¬ 
stead of being considered, as now, a negligible 
quantity in its younger stages, and many of the 
forest-grown trees, which are now cut for fence 
posts, "can profitably be left to attain their ful 
development and thus become available for penci 
wood. 
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CANADIAN TREE DISTRIBUTION. 
The Dominion Superintendent of Forestry 
Mr. E. Stewart, gave a resume of his trip dowi 
the MacKenzie River last summer, before tin 
Agriculture Committee of the House recently 
At the junction of the Pear River at Fort Nor 
man, he saw the burning banks which were re 
ferred to in Alexander MacKenzie’s narrativ 
of the river. The area drained by the Mac 
Kenzie was 100,000 square miles, more than th 
whole area drained by the St. Lawrence, in 
eluding the land of the United States side as wel 
as the Canadian. Where the Indians were no 
under treaty they had no physicians. He intend 
making a recommendation to the Government t< 
send physicians into the country. There was no 
a physician within 1,500 miles. He found spruce 
poplar and birch at the mouth of the Mac 
Kenzie. The log houses at Fort MacPhersoi 
were built from timber grown in that district 
At Fort Providence, 550 miles north of Edmon 
ton, he saw wheat in stalk on July 15. He dis 
covered afterwards that it was harvested 0 
July 28. He also saw tomatoes, potatoes, an> 
peas growing there. Mr. Stewart said thaJ 
since his department was organized it had dis 
tributed 9,346,000 trees.—Edmonton Journal. 
ROWLAND E. ROBINSON’S 
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literature of New England village and woods life. M 
Robinson’s characters are peculiar, quaint and lovable 
one reads of them now with smiles and now with tea: 
(and need not be ashamed to own to the tears). M 
Robinson writes of nature with marvelous insight; his 
the ready word, the phrase, to make a bit of landscape, 
scene of outdoors, stand out clear and vivid like 
startling flashiug out from the reader’s own memory. 
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