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Canadian Forestry Journal 



Tout devrait etre mis en jeu pour 

 encourager I'usage de ces essences 

 inferieures. Le cedre, le tamarac, 

 le sapin de Douglas sont des bois 

 d'une telle valeur technique, qu'ils 

 sont pour ainsi dire gaspilles quand 

 ils sont employes a faire des tra- 

 verses de chemins de fer. Le cedre, 

 le tamarac et le chene deviennent 



rares au Canada, et, comme leur 

 croissance est lente, les arbres qui 

 partent ne se remplacent qu'apres 

 bien deS annees; I'usage de ces 

 derniers bois, ainsi que celui du 

 sapin de Douglas, devrait etre res- 

 treint aux localites seules ou on ne 

 pent leur trouver aucun substitut. 



Planting Trees* 



By Peter McArthur, Ekfrid, Ontario. 



[Mr. McArthur, from whose series of 

 articles on country life in the Toronto 

 Globe the following ia clipped, is a well- 

 known Canadian journalist and author. 

 A little over two years ago he took up 

 his residence at Ekfrid in Middlesex coun- 

 ty, Ontario, and since then, in addition 

 to his other literary work, he has written 

 tt good deal on rural life in that part of 

 Canada. There are no suggestions to 

 make in connection with the following ex- 

 cept that he makes a mistake in thinking 

 the trees he planted came from the farm 

 of the Ontario Agricultural College at 

 Guelph. Trees distributed by the Ontario 

 Department of Agriculture to the farmers 

 of Ontario came from Guelph for many 

 years, but three years ago the nursery 

 was moved to St. Williams, in Norfolk 

 county, in regard to which an article ap- 

 pears in another part of this issue. — Ed. 

 C. F. J.] 



One thousand and eighty trees — 

 all planted. The last two words of 

 that sentence give me much satis- 

 faction. There were times during 

 the past week when I thought I 

 would never be able to write them. 

 When I started on this work of re- 

 forestation I had no idea how many 

 trees there are in one thousand. 

 Now I know, for I have planted one 

 thousand and eighty. The Ontario 

 Department of Agriculture agreed to 

 send one thousand, and they gave 

 good measure. Each bundle had 

 one or two extra, which made an 

 overrun of eighty. There were times 

 when I did not feel duly thankful 

 for this liberality, but now that they 

 are all planted I feel differently 



about it. But before going farther 

 I wish to thank Professor E. J. Za- 

 vitz for his consideration. After 

 looking over the ground and find- 

 ing that I was going to do the plant- 

 ing myself, he said quietly : — 



'I shall send you a thousand 

 trees.' 



I had been figuring on getting two 

 thousand five hundred, but now I 

 am fflad that I didn't. If I had got 

 that number I would have deserted 

 the country for the city, where the 

 tree-planting is practised with more 

 moderation and where the work is 

 done by visiting princes and notables 

 of that kind. Let it be understood, 

 however, that planting a tree is not 

 especially hard work. It is planting 

 trees, a thousand of them, that makes 

 a man feel like a horny-handed son 

 of toil. The largest number I plant- 

 ed in one day, with a boy to help me, 

 was three hundred. That was quite 

 enough. I understand that the men 

 employed by the Forestry Depart- 

 ment plant about five hundred trees 

 a day. If so, I am convinced that 

 there is one branch of the civil ser- 

 vice that really works. A man who 

 plants five hundred trees in a day 

 has no political snap. He earns his 



wages. 



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The trees came by express in a 

 neat crate made from old lumber, 

 which shows that they do things 



