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it looks as if the owner had cut every 

 tree from the surface to produce a 

 square expanse of bare earth — as 

 bare, as liard and as unsi^dith' as an 

 IlUnois stock\ard. 



How cHfterent this to what a farm 

 should be, with its reserve of forest 

 well-kept, free from the intrusion of 

 cattle, and in {^^ood forest condition ; 

 its bed deep with leaves; its younf,^ 

 trees rising emulous to the height of 

 the old, — ready to replace them when 

 they are cut down for use ; its mas- 

 sive wealth of foliage ; its pleasant 

 walks, cool and umbrageous in the 

 hottest day ; its living springs pre- 

 served by trees ; its lines of wind- 

 breaks opposed to the cutting blasts ! 

 Such a farm, so kept, is a place of 

 beauty, a place to live and die in. 

 The other, shaved flat to the surface 

 is a place to toil, to make money, if 



farming pays, perhaps, but it is 

 never a pleasure to those who inhabit 

 it, if they possess any of the finer 

 sentiments of our nature. It is not 

 always even the best place to make 

 money by farming, for he who has 

 the trees will have the grass crops, 

 he who has the grass crops will have 

 the manure, and he who has the 

 manure will have the wheat. 



The new forestry report is now 

 being distributed, and any one desir- 

 ing it, by sending his address to me, 

 will receive it by mail. It is a 

 pamphlet distributed free yearly by 

 the Ontario Government. There is 

 no price for the book, and no charge 

 for postage. It will be found to con- 

 tain much information interesting to 

 all who interest themselves in the 

 forest. — R. W. Phifps, 233 Rich- 

 mond Street, Toronto, April 15, 1889. 



