Securing the Settlers, Sympathy in Forest Fire Protection 



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Danger! IiOST 



MEAN ACTUAL LOSS TO ALL 



WHY waste our own Money and impoverish our Land ? 



TIMBER PAYS OUR TAXES 

 If it is destroyed WE PAY the difference 



The Dominion Government wants your help in pre- 

 ventin|{ Forest Fires. The best kind of fire protection is 

 the Hood will of the people. We want your co-operation. 



Get a copy of the law from your local Fireranger and 

 have him explain it to you, THEN follow its instructions. 



REMEMBER. FIRE is your own WORST ENEMY 



BE CAREFUL WITH FIRE 



style of poster contained merely a digest 

 of the forest fire act. The new style of 

 poster asks in a pointed way for co-opera- 

 tion and gives reasons for so doing. 

 It is always printed in large type so that 

 *he who runs may read,' a decided im- 

 provement on the small-typed posters of 

 previous issues. 



Another method of securing the settlers' 

 co-operation which has proved successful 

 consists in supplying the settlers in the 

 neighborhood of forest reserves with tool 

 chests, containing in compact form the 

 shovels and other equipment necessary to 

 the successful fighting of forest and prairie 

 fires. Thus, in the event of a fire, no 

 valuable time is lost searching for tools, 

 and the settlers can at once throw this 

 chest into a buggy and proceed to the 

 scene of the fire. 



To furthec facilitate the rapidity with 

 which this co-operation can be effected, the 



A WHOLE LOT of MONEY-MILLIONS 



OF DOLLARS YEARLY-CONE UP IN SMOKE 

 LARGELY THROUGH CARELESSNESS. 



BECAUSE : 



SOMEONE left a camp fire burning! 

 SOMEONE dropped a burning match ! 

 SOMEONE dropped a cigar or cigarette butt 



or knocked ashes out of a pipe I 

 SOMEONE vvas careless clearing land ! 



TIMBER CROWS, VALUE CROWS 



Everybody is Careful. 



BUT 



one fire may sweep out the growth 

 and the work of years. 



EVERYBODY 

 BE CAREFUL WITH FIRE 



•■VUDV DCSTROVIHC OR REMOVIM THIS WILL BE PROSECUTED. 



look-out stations now being erected in the 

 Reserves have telephone connection not 

 only with the ranger stations, but also 

 with farming communities in the vicinity 

 of the Forest Reserves. 



As a result of all this, not only are forest 

 fires more easily brought under control, 

 but also are there less such fires to con- 

 trol, and once the co-operation and protec- 

 tive organization has been perfected to 

 such an extent that all incipient forest 

 fires can be nipped in the bud, the pro- 

 blem of fire-protection on western Re- 

 serves will be solved. 



G. E. B. 



Considerations in NA/oodlot Growing. 



B. R. Morton, B.Sc.F.y in Charge of Woodlots, Dominion Forestry Branch, 



Ottawa. 



There is no part of tlie farm which 

 will pay bigger returns for so little 

 expenditure of time and labour as the 

 woodlot, and there is no part of the 

 average eastern Canadian farm which 



is so much neglected. Under proper 

 management the wood lot will pro- 

 duce about 0.8 of a cord per acre per 

 annum . If cut for fuel this quantity 

 at $5.00 per cord would represent an 



