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Canadian Forcblr)) Journal, February, 1920 



48' r is timbered; 



32'/, burn; 

 5% muskeg; 



159? prairie. 



The timber amounts to some 100 million 

 cords, of which 40 per cent is poplar, 30 per 

 cent spruce, 25 per cent jack pine and lodge- 

 pole pine ,and 5 per cent tamarack, balsam fir 

 and birch. 



From the above it follows that at present 

 aspen is the predominating species in the district 



north of the prairies in the middle west. Spruce 

 (and jack pine) which of course is commer- 

 cially the more important species, lags consider- 

 ably behind. The only practical way of je- 

 versing the situation is to keep the fires out 

 until the forest has returned to the original 

 type and wait for many years, except, perhaos, 

 on limited areas on forest reserves where through 

 a judicious system of cutting, or through pla it- 

 ing, reproduction of spruce may be established 

 at an earlier date. 



TO REACH THE CHILDREN OF CANADA 



The doors of ten thousand schools are now open to the interesting propaganda of the 

 Canadian Forestry Association. 



Invitations to carry on educational addresses with motion pictures are coming in 

 in such numbers as make the Association's facilities conspicuously inadequate. Cape 

 Breton, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario — indeed every section of the Dominion — offers 

 us the opportunity to win the younger generation to an intelligent understanding of the 

 forest resources and their protection from needless waste. 



The cost of establishing and maintaining a proficient Children's Lecturer would be 

 about $6,000 a year. 



The consequences of his efforts in even one year could hardly be measured by a 

 sum even one hundred times the annual outlay. 



What member of the Association is willing to assume the first year's expenses of a 

 Children's Lecturer working from Coast to Coast and to have his name identified with the 

 benefaction? 



What members of the Association are willing to aid, in any amount, this most promis- 

 ing enterprise? 



The Secretary, Mr. Robson Black, 206 Booth Building, will be glad to enter into 

 correspondence with members regarding this proposal. 



A TYPICAL LETTER. 



From the International Elevator Co., Winnipeg. 



"We have pleasure in enclosing money order 

 for $2.00. 



"We appreciate the good work your Associa- 

 tion is doing and the valuable information con- 

 tained in the Journal, and we wish you con- 

 tinued success in your undertaking. 



MORE LAND FOR MANITOBA. 



Winnipeg. -Reclamation of 700,000 acres 

 of fertile land in the Pas District will be carried 

 out after the necessary legislation has been se- 

 cured at the Manitoba Legislature, according to 

 Hon. Edward Brown, Provincial Treasurer. The 

 project will cost $2,000,000, and in addition to 

 this $1 per acre must be paid to the Dominion 



Government. The land, which is situated in 

 Northern Manitoba, close to the Saskatchewan 

 border, will be worth $20 per acre. It lies in a 

 triangle shape between the Saskatchewan river, 

 the Carrot river, and the Sapanok channel. 



IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



Mining companies planted over 290,000 for- 

 est trees during 1919, all of which were distri- 

 buted by the Pennsylvania Department of For- 

 estry. 



In Lackawanna county, seven tree planters 

 set out 324,000 forest trees during 1919. 



In the whole State of Pennsylvania 791 tree 

 planters set out 3,139,631 forest trees during 



1919. 



