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planted to date by this company is approximately 15,000,000 covering 
about 7,500 acres. During the past ten years this Company has purchased 
over 10,000 acres of private lands around Grand'Meére for reforestation 
and maintains a nursery at Proulx. 
“The Laurentide Company, Limited, has underway a definite re- 
forestation program and is planting freehold land within a radius of ten 
miles from the mill. When the timber crop is ready for cutting, there 
will be no heavy hauling and driving costs, no loss from sinkage in the 
river, no loss from long storage. The forests being planted in one block 
of land can be efficiently protected from fire. Beginning with a small 
area in 1912, the company now has a planting program of three and one- 
half to four million trees a year, or between three and four square miles 
a year. The success of the planted trees has been very satisfactory— 
the average growth for the season of 1927 is about two feet. The mortality 
is slight, being less than one per cent in stock grown bv the company 
nurseries’ * 
Price Brothers and Company, Quebec, and other companies such as 
Wayagamack Pulp and Paper Company, St. Lawrence Paper Mills, 
Brompton Pulp & Paper Company, Singer Manufacturing Company, 
Canadian International Paper Company, are pursuing a like course and 
several municipalities, notably St. Jéréme and St. Hyacinthe, are re- 
foresting their unproductive lands. 
TT ¥ From information supplied by the Forestry Division of the Laurentide Company, Limited.