Canadiari Forestry? Journal 



Vol. VII 



Ottawa, July-August. 191 i 



No. 4 



THE oflficial orison of the_ C«niidian Forestry 

 Amociation, A magaxina duvolril to the 

 iiitcresU oi toreatry and in ifcnerat to the adviKacy 

 of tha wi*e and conservative use of the natural 

 reaources ol Canada. 



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^ablc of Contents r- 



Simcoe County Waste Lands s.'> 



The Late E. 0. Joly de Lotbiniere 87 



Death of Prof. Mayr 90 



Biltmore Forest Sphool 90 



Ontario Shade Tree Legisiation 91 



Map of Porcupine District 94 



The Porcupine and Cochrane Fires O.*) 



Other Forest Fires of the Summer of 1911 W 



Conservation and Homemakers 100 



Notes on Some Bavarian Forests 101 



The NewJy Appointed Bishop of Begina 107 



Comment Disposer de Debris, etc 108 



Pacific Coast Logging Congress 110 



Log Scaling and Grading in British Columbia Ill 



Commission of Conservation Report 112 



Simcoe County (Ont,) Waste Lands. 



Barrie Examiner. 

 The Ontario Government, a.s is 

 well known, has made an initial step 

 towards the reforestation of eonsid- 

 erable areas of waste lands — 

 'blow-sand' lands — lying in various 

 counties of Ontario. The initial 

 step is heinp made in Norfolk 

 County whore the Government has 

 bought a thousand acres of these 



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waste lands, and has begun the 

 work of planting a forest nursery. 

 There is no reason to doubt that this 

 experiment will be successful and is 

 likely in due time to justify the ex- 

 penditure. The results in forestry in 

 Europe, especially in Germany and 

 France, where it has been practised 

 constantly for the la.st eighty years, 

 have proved the practice to be a 



