DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS FOR 1933 



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SUMMARY OF TREES PLANTED PERMANENTLY, 1933 



Place 



Conifers 



Hardwoods 



Cuttings 



Totals 



Private Planting: 



Reforestation 



Windbreaks 



School Planting. 



Demonstration Plots:.. 



Relief Planting: 

 Camp Borden. 

 Petawawa — 



Ranger's Plantations:. 



Nurseries: 



St. Williams. 

 Midhurst. . . 

 Orono 



Totals. 



4,954,702 



1,525,587 



20,381 



62,925 



298,000 

 647,500 



12,300 

 43,474 



1,167,360 



2,850 

 600 



169,663 

 2,259 



2,000 

 8,241 



500 



6,291,725 



1,525,587 



25,490 



63,525 



298,000 

 647,500 



14,800 



51,715 



7,564,869 



1,181,051 



172,422 



8,918,342 



FARMERS' WOODLOTS 



There is a large acreage of woodland held under private ownership in the 

 agricultural sections of southern Ontario. The percentage varies considerably 

 as districts with large tracts of inferior soils have larger areas in woodland. 

 Many townships have over thirty per cent assessed as woodland and even 

 the best agricultural townships usually have ten per cent or more. 



Many owners are only receiving a small financial return from their wood- 

 land. The woodlot would produce much larger returns if forestry principles 

 were applied to its management. Intensive forestry is economically possible 

 in the farmer's woodlot as all the material that is removed in improvement 

 cuttings and thinnings may be utilized for fuelwood, and the farmer has the 

 spare time in the winter to do the work. 



A combination of reasons are responsible for the mismanagement of 

 farmer's woodlots but the principal reason is that many are ignorant of forestry 

 principles. Trees are the only profitable crop on a large acreage of inferior 

 soils and most farmers agree that a woodlot is an asset to a farm, as it supplies 

 the owner with a convenient supply of fuelwood and timber for lumber, that 

 may be obtained without making a cash outlay. Scattered woodland also 

 improves living conditions and has a beneficial effect on adjacent agricultural 

 crops. 



