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Canadian foratr]) Journal, January, 1920 



A complete story in two pictures, illustrating- u common Canadian blunder in land manage- 

 ment and colonization. The photographs weie taken of a section in the Trent Valley of 

 Ontario where large areas adapted only to timber growing were thrown open to agriculture. 

 An ambitious young farmer built his shack, cleared a few acres, secured a few crops, and then 

 prepared for a happv future by building more commodious quarters, as shown in the lower 

 picture. A vear or two passed by and his land ■'pinched out." The soil was never adapted 

 for field crops. Here we have an instance, unhappily typical of thousands of others, where 

 Land Class ification would save an industrious settler from years of wasted effort. It would also 

 retain such section.? forever under tlieir only profitable crop — timber. 



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