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with jackpine and Scotch pine close 

 seconds. Black locust has the power, 

 like the clover and some other plants 

 (legumes) of enriching the soil by 

 reason of the colonies of bacteria 

 which adhere to its roots. Outside 

 of its use as timber it is thus useful 

 as a culture plant. Black locust is 

 a wood little known in Canada, but 

 it is highly valued for work requir- 

 ing firmness and toughness. Insu- 

 lator pegs, vehicle and railway car 

 timbers are made from it, and it 

 makes the best of fence posts. 

 Although the plantation has been 



forestry lines with the idea of get- 

 ting a perpetual supply. Mr. Mc- 

 Call met Dr. FernoAv on this visit 

 and told him that he had got his first 

 ideas in this direction from some 

 pamphlets which Dr. Fernow sent 

 out about ten years ago. Mr. Mc- 

 Call is naturally much interested in 

 the progress of the Government 

 plantation. Others also are knowp 

 to be interested, and as the experi- 

 ment becomes more widely known its 

 effect in regard to the care of private 

 timberlands will be very great. Pro- 

 fessor Zavitz has in the past given 



Dr. Fernow operating a seedling-planting machine, Norfolk County Nursery Station. 



established for only three seasons 

 there has been a notable change in 

 the land in the plantation itself, and 

 the effect is also beginning to be 

 seen in the greater interest shown 

 by timber owners in their timber- 

 lands. On the farm adjoining the 

 nursery which belongs to a private 

 citizen, there is a sawmill which has 

 been running for about seventy 

 years. Mr. Walter McCall, the 

 owner, is understood to be desirous 

 of keeping the mill going in per- 

 petuity. He is the holder of a very 

 considerable area of timberland in 

 the district, which he is working on 



careful figures as to the cost of pro- 

 ducing timber from plantations in 

 southern Ontario, and from this time 

 onward he will be- able to show the 

 actual results as well. The great 

 problem of this feature of forestry 

 in Canada is whether it will be un- 

 dertaken by individuals or whether 

 it must be undertaken by institutions 

 like governments, federal and pro- 

 vincial, and municipalities, which 

 never die. This has yet to be work- 

 ed out, but the work of the Ontario 

 Government plantation at St. Wil- 

 liams will undoubtedly advance the 

 solution. 



