some revenue to fishermen who will engage in 

 their catch in the near future. 



The high quality of the eel caught in 

 Canada, especially in the St. Lawrence, has 

 found for it great and lasting favor with the 

 people of cities of the United States, and prac- 

 tically all of Canada's catch of this fish goes to 

 that country. The total export to the United 

 States in 1920 was valued at $85,579 and in 1921, 

 $83,854. About $700 worth only was exported 

 to other countries in 1920, whilst in the following 

 year the United States took the entire export. 

 The eels are shipped in various manners. Some, 

 as in the recent large consignment, travel to 

 their destination in a live state and are sold 

 fresh, though some may be smoked. Fish, 

 frozen on the Canadian side, are also shipped in 

 this condition to markets across the line. 



The recent substantial demand from New 

 York may mean the possibility of an expanding 

 market and it would be worth while for fisher- 

 men to investigate this. Certainly there remain 

 opportunities for widening the fishing and sale 

 of this fish, and the waters of Canada, in their 

 fertility, present no handicap to this. 



The Farmer's Timber Supply 



The various phases of work which have 

 their sources in Canada's forests, combine to 

 make the lumber industry one of the most import- 

 ant of the Dominion, and the total commercial 

 cut together with the various allied industries 

 utilizing lumber in manufacture, run the aggre- 

 gate value each year to a handsome revenue. 

 This, nevertheless, dees not comprise by any 

 means the entire value of Canada's timber to the 

 country, and there is a large domestic consump- 

 tion of which no record or statistics are available. 

 Timber plays no small part in relation to the 

 Dominion's first industry of agriculture, and 

 the presence and availability of timber in agri- 

 cultural sections means a great deal to the farm- 

 ers in those areas, and makes for a general 

 economy. 



What are generally designated as the Prairie 

 Provinces of Western Canada, which have, of 

 recent years, become one of the first agricultur- 

 ally producing regions of the world, are popular- 

 ly supposed to be bare of any tree growth from 

 their very name. Those who know the region, 

 however, are aware to what an extent the name 

 is a misnomer. While the southern portion 

 of the plain which the three provinces takes in 

 appears to be a bald, denuded stretch, clumps 

 of brush and trees are always to be found in the 

 vicinity of watercourses, which are numerous, 

 and in the region of the foothills. These supplies 

 render a certain amount of timber available 

 as well as providing shade and shelter to stock. 



When one travels north, however, the prairie 

 is left behind and one reaches what is a fairly, 

 clearly defined division between the bald plain 

 and the timber country. This growth is not 



in the nature of forest, but from the scattered 

 and somewhat orderly distribution, with the 

 appearance of having been especially laid out, 

 has given to the country the description of park- 

 land. The timber is never so dense or heavy as 

 to impede or curtail ordinary farming operations, 

 yet gives the farmer all the advantages which 

 a tree growth possesses for a farming community. 

 For his stock it is summer shade and winter 

 shelter; for the farmer, fuel, fencing and even 

 material for building. 



Government Reserves Available 



Where farmers have settled on the clearer 

 sections of the parklands, or are indisposed to 

 cut down their own trees, timber for their many 

 needs can be cut on adjacent unfiled lands or on 

 the Government forest reserves which have been 

 held back from settlement and are to be found in 

 many parts of the Western Provinces. Though 

 these reserves have been made for the preserva- 

 tion of the timber, cutting is permitted of the 

 mature timber to enable lesser sizes to attain 

 full growth, and for other reasons. There are 

 more than 32,500 square miles of forest reserves 

 in the Prairie Provinces which have at all times 

 a large supply of surplus timber available for the 

 many uses of the farming settlements about 

 them. 



In the North Battleford district of Saskat- 

 chewan, for instance, there is a forest reserve 

 which is one of the most valuable assets of the 

 rich farming country of the Battleford region. 

 Farmers, who have a greater and wider need for 

 timber than others, draw their supplies of fuel, 

 fencing, and building material from this source. 

 Small private mills have been erected for the 

 purpose of manufacturing lumber, and the farmer 

 secures the necessary material for his house and 

 buildings very economically, from timber he has 

 cut himself. 



Nature in creating Western Canada has 

 provided for many of the needs of the settlers 

 to come, and in the timber, with which she 

 dotted the country, is one of the farmer's most 

 valuable assets. 



Graphic Forestry Exhibits 



By Robson Black, Secretary, Canadian Forestry Association 



Educational enterprises sometimes take novel 

 forms, but few educational novelties seem to 

 have proved more successful in gaining public 

 attention than the specially-equipped railway 

 coaches employed by the Canadian Forestry 

 Association. 



One of the coaches, stripped of the usual 

 seats, was packed with graphic exhibits, which 

 included models of forests, showing the de- 

 vastation of forest fires, fire protection apparatus, 

 wireless equipment, etc., and electrically lighted 

 show cases displaying hundreds of strange arti- 

 cles made from wood, such as imitation silks 



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