. Canadian forest industries July-December 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. ^ M * ^bunded 1880 Vol. 43 Toronto, July 1, 1923 No. 13 The Only Living Commissioned Deal Culler in Quebec Thomas Malone of Three Rivers, Gomes of Family of Lumber Graders. His Grand- father away Back in 1845 Complied Grading Rules for the Act Passed in that Year. Tells how Culler in Days Gone By Handled Each Piece of Lumber, Placing Red Chalk Mark on the Face and Stamp on the End. He was Under Heavy Penalty to Mark Correct Quality ori Each Thoma
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1923. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. ^ M * ^bunded 1880 Vol. 43 Toronto, July 1, 1923 No. 13 The Only Living Commissioned Deal Culler in Quebec Thomas Malone of Three Rivers, Gomes of Family of Lumber Graders. His Grand- father away Back in 1845 Complied Grading Rules for the Act Passed in that Year. Tells how Culler in Days Gone By Handled Each Piece of Lumber, Placing Red Chalk Mark on the Face and Stamp on the End. He was Under Heavy Penalty to Mark Correct Quality ori Each Thomas Malone, Three Rivers, Thomas Malone, of Three Rivers, Que., is the only living commissioned deal culler, ap- pointed under "An Act to regulate the culling and mea- surement of timber, masts, spars, deals, staves and other articles of a like nature, and to repeal a certain Act therein ; The date of this Cullers' Act is March 1845, and it repeals a measure dealing with the same subject. It is an interesting fact that the greater part of the grad- ing for the 1845 Act was com- piled by the grandfather of Mr. Malone. A graphic description of the earlier days of the Quebec lumber trade, particularly in relation to the export side, as seen by Mr. Malone follows. The Cullers' Act dealt with cull- ing for the market, and the grades had, of course, reference to that trade. Conditions have now changed; methods of business have altered, transportation has been revolutionized, the lumber trade has broadened out in other directions, and Canada has no longer the supply of large lumber which she furnished the These changing conditions have resulted in the Cullers' Act being regarded as a dead letter. The men licensed under it have gradually died, Mr. Malone being the only link with that past. Under the Act a Supervisor of Cullers was appointed, and he, with four memibers of the Council of the Quebec Board of Trade, practically acquainted with the lumber tr
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