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Canadian Forestry Journal, March 1913. 



the New York State Forestry Associa- 

 tion and the Genesee Valley Forestry 

 Association. There never was a time 

 when there was so much real interest 

 in forest protection as the present, 

 and we propose to keep our members 

 in touch with the different aspects of 

 the movement from month to month. 



With this in view he urges the planting 

 of handsome and stately nut bearing trees 

 in place of the millions of useless willows 

 and poplars which yield no financial re- 

 turns. 



On March 24 the daily papers con- 

 tained reports of a number of rivers 

 in dangerous flood in addition to the 

 terrible floods of the Ohio Valley. 

 Those noticed were the Speed River 

 at Guelph, Ont. ; the Grand at Gait, 

 Ont. ; the Rideau River, and a num- 

 ber of tributaries of the St. Lawrence 

 in Quebec. On this date the streets 

 in the lowest part of Sault au Re- 

 collet, Que., were being navigated by 

 boats, while. the Hintonburgh district 

 of Ottawa was badly inundated. The 

 great Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers 

 were also rising rapidly and causing 

 apprehension. All this but points the 

 moral of the danger of deforestation. 



NUT GROWING. 



Mr. W. C. Bead of Vincennes, Indiana, 

 in a paper read before the Kentucky State 

 Horticultural Society urges the planting 

 of nut trees throughout the Ohio Valley. 

 He writes of black walnut, hazelnut, but- 

 ternut, beechnut, the hickories, chestnut 

 and pecan. He lays special stress on chest- 

 nut, walnut and pecan. While the chest- 

 nut is probably suitable for only the south- 

 ern most parts of Canada, and while the 

 pecan is perhaps, not suitable for Canada 

 at all there is a considerable area where 

 walnuts can be produced to advantage and 

 to this Mr. Reeds remarks apply. He 

 holds that English walnuts should be bud- 

 ded on native stock which adapts them to 

 a wider range of soils, makes them hardier 

 and causes them to ripen their wood 

 earlier. Such trees have stood tempera- 

 tures of 18 to 20 degrees below zero in 

 Pennsylvania. Walnut trees require about 

 the same care as apple trees and should 

 be planted not less than 40 feet apart. If 

 planted in orchard form the land may be 

 utilized for growing field crops or may be 

 under cropped with quick growing fruit 

 trees. Mr. Reed claims that there are 

 many thousand acres of land too rough 

 to grow ordinary crops which will give 

 good returns in nuts, and he speaks of 

 $100 per acre per year as an average re- 

 turn where the trees are given attention. 



THE CAUSE OF THE PEOPLE. 



There were a number of important mat- 

 ters at the third annual meeting of the North 

 Carolina Forestry Association. The Presi- 

 dent of the Association is Mr. E. B. Wright, 

 a leading lumberman, and in his annual 

 address the President remarked: 'The cause 

 of forestry is the cause of the people, and 

 I find ample justification for rejoicing in 

 North Carolina to-day over the crystalliza- 

 tion of a healthy public sentiment by all 

 classes of people in favor of a more intelli- 

 gent and businesslike application of the prin- 

 ciples and practice of modern forestry.' 



A leading furniture manufacturer said 

 that unless forests were protected they would 

 son have to make furniture out of something 

 else than lumber. The railway men claimed 

 they were more interested in forests than 

 the timber owners themselves, and the farm- 

 ers' and the women's clubs were also repre- 

 sented. Among the resolution passed was 

 one recommending further action in co- 

 operation with the Federal Government un- 

 der the Weeks Lawj and protesting against 

 the proposal to turn over the national forests 

 to the various States. The Association be- 

 lieves that the Federal Government can han- 

 dle the forests better than can the States. 



FIGHTING THE BROWN TAIL MOTH. 



In February a conference was called at 

 Boston by the State Forester of Massachu- 

 setts for the purpose of bringing together 

 those now fighting the gipsy and brown-tail 

 moths and those who are likely to be con- 

 cerned in the near future. New York State 

 was represented at this conference. As 

 shade tree pests these can be destroyed by 

 spraying and dstroying egg clusters, but 

 these methods, expensive as they are, can- 

 not be extended to fight such insects in for- 

 est trees. Dependence has to be placed in 

 the parasites and diseases of these moths 

 introduced from abroad. As an aid to this 

 work it is proposed to put a barrier be- 

 tween affected and unaffected districts. 

 Trees like the oak, willow and birch are 

 apparently more favorable to the develop- 

 ment of these insects, while they are unable 

 to complete their life history on coniferous 

 trees. It is therefore proposed to check the 

 spread of the insects northward into the 

 Adirondacks by having zones of white pines 

 and other evergreens from which broad- 

 leaved trees have been removed. With this 

 is to go a strict quarantine of cord wood, 

 lumber and nursery stock shipped from in- 

 fested areas. 



