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Canadian Forestry Journal, March, ig20 



useful in the {gardens, and very mucli and tliis numlter is being added to 



in demand. There are about thirty from time to time as other varieties 



sorts which are hardy, but quite a lot are discovered which will live on the 



of experimental work is being done, ])rairies. 



Producer and Customer in Biblical limes 



Geo. H. Montgomery, K.C., 

 before i 920 Annual Meeting of Canadian Pulp and Paper Association 



"The text T have chosen is from Tst 

 Kings, verses eight to twelve : 



" 'And Hiram said to Solomon, say- 

 ing, I have considered the things 

 which thou sentest to me for, and 1 

 will do all thy desire concerning tim- 

 ber of cedar, and concerning timber of 

 fir. 



" 'My servants shall l)ring them 

 down from Lebanon unto the sea ; 

 and I will convey them by sea in 

 floats into the place that thou shalt 

 appoint me, and will cause them to be 

 discharged there, and thou shalt re- 

 ceive them; and thou shalt accomp- 



lliat i)r()tccts the farm home like a 

 gr(t\e of trees and gives it a home- 

 like apj)earance, the trees take a lot 

 of moisture, and it is almost impos- 

 sil)lc to grow a garden close to trees 

 or inside a small wind break. Fur- 

 ther, in the spring after a heavy 

 snowfall the trees hold the snow and 

 frequently keep the ground near them 

 wet very late in the spring. A rc)w 

 of trees along the road sometimes 

 makes the road impassible for weeks. 

 Last spring, however, and again this 

 spring, I have come to put a higher 

 value on the trees on mv farm. I 



lish my desire, in giving food for my have a wind l^reak running south 



household 



" 'So Hiram gave Solomon cedar 

 trees and fir trees, according to all his 

 desire. 



" 'And Solomon gave Hiram twenty 

 thousand measures of wheat, for food 

 for his household, and twenty 

 measures of pure oil : thus gave Solo- 

 mon to Hiram year by year. 



" 'And the Lord gave Solomon wis- 

 dom, as he promised him ; and there 



from the road for about 20 rods. It 

 was planted ten years ago and is 14 

 to 20 feet high. A field just east of 

 this wind l)reak was summer-fallow- 

 ed and seeded to wheat in 1918. It 

 ran south the full half mile and was 

 60 rods wide. Over half this field at 

 the south end was completely drifted 

 out. Where the shelter-belt protected 

 the field from the west and north- 

 west winds I never had a better crop 



was peace between Hiram and Solo- and it checked the force of the wind 

 mon, and they two made a league to- 

 gether.' 



"That chapter is not only_ of in- 

 terest in discussing the earlier des- 

 cription of the logging industry, in- 

 cluding the drives, -but it is of interest 

 at this time in particular in discussing 

 the relations which should prevail, 

 and which have not prevailed in the 

 past, between the consumer and the 

 producer." 



A FARMER'S EXPERIENCE. 



Until this last two years I have 

 always felt that, while tree planta- 

 tions about the buildings were most 

 highly desirable, they also had their 

 drawbacks. While there is nothing 



right across the 60 acre field. 



This year I noted the same effect 

 on a neighbor's farm. On my own 

 farm the field was spring plowed and 

 none of it drifted badly. I have come 

 to the conclusion that the policy of 

 planting a system of wind-breaks is 

 the only permanent measure of con- 

 trolling soil-drifting. In planting I 

 would suggest that they be planted 

 in rows half a mile apart, running 

 north and south. Nearly all the high 

 winds that do the damage are almost 

 directly due west winds. 



I realize that such a plan must be 

 started on a small scale, but it would 

 soon grow to be the greatest tree 

 plantation ever undertaken. 



Sask. G. H. SCOTT. 



