. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Mr. H. G. Joly de Lothbiniere. art of arboriculture and forestry. It would be folly on my part to attempt to eulogize one so able and willing to tell us how the woods indigenious to our country can be propagated, conserved and made to beautify the land. He can also tell us the commercial value of the product of the forest, how it supplies the material that furnishes employment to a great number of men, representing a large population, and making up the greatest i
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Mr. H. G. Joly de Lothbiniere. art of arboriculture and forestry. It would be folly on my part to attempt to eulogize one so able and willing to tell us how the woods indigenious to our country can be propagated, conserved and made to beautify the land. He can also tell us the commercial value of the product of the forest, how it supplies the material that furnishes employment to a great number of men, representing a large population, and making up the greatest industry in our country, except agriculture ; how the lumberman with his axe carves his way into the woods, making his road as he goes along, building his shanty and stables, cutting down the giants of the forest to be converted into timber and sawlogs, hauling them to the lakes and. streams, down which they are floated in the spring, fol- lowed by the hardy driver, cant-dog in hand, until they reach the mills, where they are made into boards, planks and deals ; then the artisans, mechanics and laborers, who build and man the mills, steamboats, ships and barges, to freight all this material to its many points of distribution, to the hundreds of workshops where it is manipulated into every conceivable article from a piano frame to the tiny match. Then as to the utility of the forest, though it may not attract the rain or influence its downfall, there can be no doubt as to its regulating the flowing of the waters by holding them back in the glades and swamps, sheltering the land from the fierce rays of the sun, preventing evaporation to a great extent, and thus equalizing the flow of water, preventing oftentimes damaging floods and dried-up ; THE LECTURE. As to the value of forest trees individually, Mr. Joly said, timber for use as fuel, and for the construction of houses, ships, etc., could easily be replaced by coal and iron, but nothing could displace the forests
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