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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 reforestation
 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 onehalf
 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 reforesting
 their unproductive lands.
TT ¥ From information supplied by the Forestry Division of the Laurentide Company, Limited.