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5,400 trees with a total volume of over 500,000 

 feet board measure. Two excellent roads made 

 by the students divide the property equally. 

 Each tree measuring four inches and up was 

 calipcred and numbered last year, and record is 

 also kept of its health conditions. We expect to 

 continue these measurements every two or three 

 years so as to judge of the progress and in- 

 creases in its growth. Each tree that is re- 

 moved during the year for sylvicultural pur- 

 poses is calipered and scaled, so that we will 

 prepare eventually a volume table for this sec- 

 tion of the country. 



Already one-quarter of the forest has been 

 culled under a rigid system of sylviculture and 

 you will see that the forest does not appear 

 to be in a bad state though the cutting of one 

 compartment yielded seventy-two cords of fire- 

 wood and two thousand five hundred feet of 

 sawlogs ; the whole being valued at eighty- 

 four dollars. These operations will not only 

 increase the value of the stand by the selection 

 made of the best species and of the best trees, 

 but the growth will also be increased and stimu- 

 lated by the treatment. 



WHOLESALE LAND CLEARING. 



—"by the side of the road, 

 And be a friend to Man." 



\ii advertisement, maybe, but a welcome one. 



Mr. Jaimet of Kitchener. Ont.. prepared this 



drinking spot over a woodland spring. 



(Edmonton Bulletin) 



of about twenty feet in height with a diameter 

 of three inches. Here and there we have made 

 plantations of several foreign trees in order to 

 study their development under these conditions. 



A Model Woodland. 



Coming to the woodlot, you will find a good 

 'example of what could be done similarly by 

 each farmer in this province. Its area is close 

 to twenty-five acres ; it rests on a soil formed by 

 a coarse sand of the poorest quality, yet you 

 will find the trees to be in good health, tall, 

 and of a fair size. The composition of the 

 stand is also interesting as almost each specimen 

 growing in the province is represented. In 

 the first half we have aimed to develop a mix- 

 ture of maple and white pine, favoring however 

 the production of white pine. The other half 

 is devoted to the best trees as they appear. 



This woodlot was divided into eight com- 

 partments of equal size, and contains some 



Experiments in clearing land in the Peace 

 River country of poplar, green willow scrub and 

 dead timber have been made recently by a party 

 which returned from the north. The method 

 which it was desired to test was that suggested 

 by Hon. J. L. Cote, member for the Grouard dis- 

 trict, a number of years ago, namely burning it 

 during the early spring while the ground is still 

 damp. Their tests proved that it can be done 

 without injury to the soil. 



Normally when a fire sweeps across country 

 the soil is burnt out to a depth of several inches. 

 The experimenters discovered that in the early 

 spring, when the grass is starting and the leaves 

 budding, by firing the scrub along the top it 

 will burn down the slope to the low damp 

 ground where it goes out owing to the moisture. 

 If done at this time of year the soil is not in- 

 jured and moreover fire guards are created 

 which are protection later on. There are hun- 

 dreds of thousands of acres of rich land in the 

 Peace River country that might be cleared by 

 spring firing which, unless cleared, will lie un- 

 cultivated for many years. 



