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It now remains to be determined whether or not this disease is contagious, 

 the extent of its prevalence, the rate of mortality caused by it, the time required 

 for recovery from the malady, and its effects in such cases on the annual increment 

 of wood. With these ends in view some inoculations were made, some hundreds^ of 

 diseased trees were noted and marked with numbered metal disks, and a full 

 census of all the white pines taken on a small selected plot. 



As a result of the summer's work the following lines of inquiry are in 

 project : 



1. A completion of the investigation on the " needle blight " of the pine. 



2. A study of the effects of sulphur fumes on pine and especially with 

 reference to the winter roasting of ores. 



3. An examination of a brown heart rot of pine, balsam, and spruce which is 

 probably the most destructive agent operating in our northern forests. The special 

 features to be examined refer to the rapidity of development of the decay, ' the 

 manner and extent of its inroads, and the factors that are responsible for its 

 greater prevalence in some districts than in others. 



4. A more complete inventory of the diseases of the pines and the pulpwoods 

 of Ontario." 



You will notice that Dr. Faull has found no evidence of White Pine Blister 

 Rust in the Timagami Forest Reserve. His work on '^ needle blight " and " brown 

 heart rot " should be followed up until we can arrive at some definite conclusions. 



I have the honour to be. Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



E. J. Zavitz, 



Provincial Forester, 



Appendix No. 32. 



Returned Soldiers and Sailors— Laxd Settlement. 

 * 

 The Honourable, the Minister of Lands, Foreits and Mines, Toronto. 



Sir, — I have the honour to report as follows, with regard to the Provincial 

 Scheme of Land Settlement for Returned Soldiers and Sailors. 



The Land Settlement Scheme for returned soldiers and sailors was inaugurated 

 in February, 1917, the aim of the scheme being to place returned men in con- 

 siderable numbers on lands of the Crown in Northern Ontario. 



For the present, six townships have been set aside for use in this connection, 

 namely: O'Brien, Owens, Williamson, Idington, Gumming and Shackleton, located 

 some sixty or seventy miles west of Cochrane on the line of the National Transcon- 

 tinental Railway. These townships with the exception of Shackleton have been sur- 

 veyed into lots containing 100 acres each instead of the ordinary homestead of 

 160 acres. 



A Training School has been completed at Monteith thirty miles south of 

 Cochrane, on the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, the school being 

 located on the Government Demonstration Farm consisting of 800 acres. There 

 is a clearing of very considerable size on this farm on which a number of the 

 men have been given instruction in agriculture. They have also been instructed 

 in land-clearing, logging, stumping, etc., on those portions of the farm which 

 have not yet been fitted for the plough. 



