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Canadian Forestry Journal, February 1913. 



IN ALGONQUIN PARK. 



C. W. Young, President of the Canadian 

 Press Association. 



There's days when the fish won't bite; 

 It's either too oalni, or else too rough; 

 It's either too warm, or not warm enough; 

 It's either too cloudy, or the sun's too 



bright ; 

 The wind's the wrong way, or the moon's 

 not right; 

 It 's either too wet, or else it 's too dry ; 

 Or for some other reason, you can't tell 

 why, 

 But there's days when the fish won't bite. 



There's days when the fish won't bite; 

 You may try every lure, you may try every 



bait, 

 You may do what you will, and wait and 

 wait 

 From morning till noon, and from noon till 



night, 

 But you won 't get a nibble tho ' you try all 

 your might; 

 You may grumble or swear. 

 But the. fish don't care, 

 For there 's days when the fish won 't bite. 



But there 's days when the fish will bite ; 

 When it ain't too calm, and it ain't too 



rough. 

 When it ain't too warm, but just warm 

 enough ; 

 And the big old fellows, oh, joy, how they 



fight! 

 Your rod 's bent double as you keep your 

 line tight. 

 How they leap! How they run! 

 Gee whiz, but it's fun! 

 On the days when the fish will bite! 



At the close of the big game season in 

 New Brunswick, Lt.-Col. Loggie, Deputy 

 Surveyor-General, announced that the re- 

 ceipts from game licenses for the past fiscal 

 year had amounted to over $51,000, thus 

 making a new record for receipts from this 

 source. The preceding year the receipts 

 were $43,000. 



It is to be noted that in the annual re- 

 ports of the general managers of the lead- 

 ing chartered banks of Canada specific men- 

 tion is made of the condition of our forest 

 industries. Careful reading of these will 

 show that these financial leaders expect our 

 forest industries to continue indefinitely. 

 There is no reason why they should not, 

 and in fact no reason why they should not 

 be greatly increased in the time to come if 

 we only handle our forest lands in a rational 

 manner. To have this done is the reason 

 for the existence of the Canadian Forestry 

 Association. 



.AIR. E. J. ZAVTTZ. 

 RAILWAY FIRE PROTECTION. 



Mr. E. J. Zavitz, Provincial Forester for 

 Ontario, has been appointed Provincial Fire 

 Inspector by the Board of Railway Com- 

 missioners, and subject to the general super- 

 vision of the Chief Fire Inspector will direct 

 the enforcement in Ontario of the railway 

 fire regulations of the Board. Similar ac- 

 tion as to Quebec has been taken by the 

 appointment as Provincial Fire Inspector of 

 Mr. W. C. J. Hall, Chief of the Forest Pro- 

 tection Branch, Department of Lands and 

 Forests, Quebec. Jt is anticipated that co- 

 operation with the Railway Commission will 

 be extendeil to the provinces of New Brun- 

 swick and Nova Scotia through action by 

 the respective Provincial Governments. 



~ Conservation. 



A committee of the British Board of 

 Agriculture recently held an enquiry as to 

 the relative value of forests and sheep graz- 

 ing in regard to the support of population. 

 The result of the inquiry was that whereas 

 it took twenty-five hundred acres of rough 

 broken land to support one shepherd and 

 his family, the same amount of the same 

 kind of land would support twenty-five 

 Avoodsmen and their families. The object 

 of the inquiry was to show which was the 

 better industry to foster in a country where 

 land values are high and the i>opulation 

 dense. The result is worthy of note by 

 all interested in forestry. 



