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lease or otherwise, such lands 

 designated in the by-law as 

 the council may deem suitable 

 for reforestation purposes ; 



(b) For planting land so acquir- 

 ed and for preserving and 

 protecting the timber there- 

 on; 



(c) For the management of such 

 lands and the sale or other 

 disposal of the timber grown 

 thereon; 



(d) For the issuing of debentures 

 from time to time for the pur- 

 pose of providing for the pur- 

 chase of such lands to an 

 amount not exceeding $25,000 

 to be owing at any one time. 



3. No by-law shall be finally pass- 

 ed under this Act until the same 

 shall have been approved in writing 

 by the Minister of Agriculture. 



4. (a) Municipal councils of town- 

 ships in districts without county or- 

 ganization shall have all the powers, 



privileges and authority conferred 

 by paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of 

 section 2 hereof on councils of coun- 

 ties. 



(b) The councils of such town- 

 ships shall have power and authority 

 to levy by special rate a sum not 

 exceeding $200.00 in any year for 

 the purpose of providing for the 

 purchase of such lands. 



To Mr. Thos. Southworth, late 

 Director of Forestry and Coloniza- 

 tion for the province, Mr. E. J. Za- 

 vitz. Forester to the Department of 

 Agriculture, and others who have 

 been prominent in the agitation for 

 this measure, the passage of this 

 Act must be very gratifying, as it is, 

 in less degree, to all interested in the 

 forestry work of this province. Sev- 

 eral of the county councils, particu- 

 larly those of York, Simcoe, and the 

 united counties of Northumberland 

 and Durham, are already looking 

 forward to action in this direction. 



The Forest Ranger. 



By Samuel J. Record, Yale Forest School. ^ 



'The biggest and best thing 

 about the Forest Service is the 

 loyalty of its men. They are 

 working for all the people and 

 that is worth while.' 



Gifford Pinchof. 



There are nearly two thousand 

 field men actively engaged in the 

 protection and administration of the 

 two hundred million acres upon 

 which Uncle Sam is practicing for- 

 estry. Constituting this vast do- 

 main are one hundred and fifty re- 

 servations, called National Forests. 

 Their present value is more than 

 two billions of dollars. 



Each National Forest has an or- 

 ganization and staff of its own. The 

 man in charge is the forest super- 

 visor, and the men comprising his 

 field force are the forest rangers. 



There are now 1,200 rangers in the 

 service. There are three grades in 

 this position — Assistant, Deputy and 

 Forest Ranger proper. Promotion 

 from one grade to the next is made 

 on the ground of efficiency and per- 

 iod of service, and the positions are 

 held through merit alone, this 

 branch of the Government service 

 being particularly free from favor- 

 itism and Dolitical patronage. 



Once every year or so the United 

 States Civil Service Commission con- 

 duets an examination to determine 

 the fitness of applicants for these 

 positions. These examinations are 



*Mr. Eecord, the author of this article, 

 is a graduate of the Yale Forest School 

 (1904), and, after some years with the U. 

 S. Forest Service, which included experi- 

 ence as forest supervisor, last summer 

 took a position as a member of the Yale 

 Forest School staff. 



