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Report on Cooperative Forestry. By E. J. Zavitz, in Thirty- 

 Second Annual Report of the Ontario Agricultural and Experi- 

 mental Union, 1910. Legislative Assembly, Toronto, Ontario. 

 191 1. Pp. 46-48. 



Of the 400,000 trees distributed or planted during 1910 by the 

 Forestry Department of the provincial Department of Agricul- 

 ture, about one-half went to private planters, the remainder being 

 planted at the Norfolk Forest Station. The private planting 

 embraces waste lands and depleted woodlots. The aim of the 

 Department is the introduction of the more valuable hardwoods, 

 with an eye to the coming scarcity. During the last five years 

 some two million forest trees have been sent out to cooperative 

 planters or planted on Government land, with a high percentage 

 of success. Already plantations have been started in forty 

 counties. The more important work of the department, however, 

 is the conducting of a forest station in Norfolk county, compris- 

 ing some 1,300 acres. The work at the station consists largely of 

 experiments in the reclamation of waste land by forest planting, 

 and nursery work to produce planting material. At present 

 (1910) the nursery contains some 800,000 transplants and double 

 that number of seedlings. 



The importance of the work under the Department can be 

 appreciated only by a realization of the considerable percentage 

 of waste land included in agricultural southwestern Ontario. 



J. H. W. 



IVaterpowers of Canada. By Leo G. Denis and Arthur V. 

 White. Commission of Conservation, Canada. Ottawa. 191 1. 

 Pp. 396. 



The Commission of Conservation, Ottawa, has issued this 

 valuable report on Canada's Waterpower Resources. It repre- 

 sents the first inventory ever taken of the waterpowers of the 

 Dominion. The investigation shows that there are 1,016,521 

 horsepower developed from waterpower in Canada. Every phase 

 of the subject from the laws governing the disposition of water- 

 powers in the various provinces, to the actual physical data re- 

 garding each individual waterpower concerning which infor- 

 mation was obtainable, is treated. In addition, there is a very 



