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ten years in existence, has steadily grown. In the spring of 1909, 

 some 2,570,000 trees were distributed to 2,010 appHcants, and 

 the capacity of the nursery, some 85 acres, will soon be reached. 

 The experiment with conifers during the last three years has been 

 very satisfactory. Seedlings of maple and ash from seed collected 

 from regions farther south with a corresponding longer growing 

 season were a failure. A new departure was made in the demon- 

 stration plantations and exhibits of simple nursery methods for 

 farmers at the Brandon and Calgary summer fairs. The division 

 also carries on a general educational propaganda by preparing 

 articles for agricultural and horticultural publications, distribut- 

 ing literature, and lecturing before Farmers' Institutes. The 

 settler should soon reasonably be expected to grow his own nur- 

 sery stock for his plantations and shelter belts. 



Owing to the rapid development of irrigation the work of 

 inspection and survey of all projects in Alberta and Saskatchewan 

 has greatly increased. Especially urgent is the matter of stream 

 measurements. Of the large projects, the Canadian Pacific Rail- 

 way Company now have 1,300 miles of canal and ditches built 

 irrigating 250,000 acres, the Alberta Railway and Irrigation 

 Company 238 miles covering 70,000 acres, and the Southern 

 Alberta Land Company 47 miles of main canal. In addition 

 there are 364 minor projects with an irrigable area of some 

 117,000 acres. 



The report closes with some twenty illustrations, new and 

 interesting. J- H. W. 



forest Fires in Canada, ipog. By H. R. MacMillan and G. A. 

 Gutches. Bulletin 9, Forestry Branch. Ottawa, Canada. 1910. 

 Pp. 40. 



This bulletin is a review of the present situation and is evidently 

 issued to help in the movement, universal throughout North 

 America, towards a realization by the nation of the urgent neces- 

 sity of stopping forest fires. 



A rough guess is made as to how much has been burned in the 

 past 300 years. Allowing 600,000 square miles for tundra, 

 700,000 for the semi-treeless subarctic region, 200.000 for prairie, 

 and 300,000 for inland lakes and area above timber line, leaves 

 some 1,900,000 square miles originally forested. Deduct from 



