. Canadian forest industries July-December 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA AND WOODWORKKR Modernizing the Logging Industry in Canada Machinery is Superceding Hand Labor in Nearly All Other Activities—Easter Conference Should Stimulate More Economic Production By Roland D. Craig, Forest Engineer, Commission of Conservation Chanties in ihe forest and in the demand for forest jjroducts are bringing about new condi- tions in eastern Canada, to which the time-honored methods of logging- are not adaj)ted. The timber
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA AND WOODWORKKR Modernizing the Logging Industry in Canada Machinery is Superceding Hand Labor in Nearly All Other Activities—Easter Conference Should Stimulate More Economic Production By Roland D. Craig, Forest Engineer, Commission of Conservation Chanties in ihe forest and in the demand for forest jjroducts are bringing about new condi- tions in eastern Canada, to which the time-honored methods of logging- are not adaj)ted. The timber supplies are each year receding farther from the main rivers which for generations have carried the logs to the mill,'--. The unlimited quantities of the grades and kinds of timber once de- manded are no longer available, and now almost every kind and ([uality of wood can be sold at a good jirice if it can only"be brought to the market. Not so many years ago white pine was the main and, in many cases, the only species taken out of the woods. To-day nearly twice as much s])ruce lumbei is cut as pine and, in addition, there is al- most as much spruce used for pulp as there is pine cut. Hemlock used to be left to rot in the woods after the bark had been taken of? for tanning, but is now a high-priced lumber tree. The despised Jack-pine is one of the chief sources of railway ties and is becoming a lactor in lumber production. Even balsam fir and poplar are woVth about $20 a cord as pulpwood. The hardwoods, which have been considered weeds in the forest, find a ready market when manufac- tured. At present, the equivalent of over two hundred million feet of hardwood is cut annually, but about one-third of it is used for distillation. The decreasing supply of hardwoods such as oak, hick- ory .and ash in the United States has forced our manufacturers and builders to use our home-grown birch and maple with the result that the demand exceeds the supply. Adjustment to Meet New Con
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