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Canadian Forestry Journal, May, ig20. 



PS. 



'•Parlor-car Forestry," as it is in real life. Gifford Pinchot once said that in New York State 

 Foresters were to be found everywhere but in the forest. The true professional, however, usually 

 wins his way only through actual woods experience. The photograph points out clearly the joy of 

 life in a Canadian mus'seg, 300 miles from a real town. 



inent farmer of Norfolk County, who 

 is also well versed in lumberino-. W. 

 A. Bower, of Simcoe, who has con- 

 siderable holdings in the county, is 

 one of those who has taken advantage 

 of the Government's encouraging as- 

 sistance towards reforestation. In- 

 terviewed by The Free Press a few 

 days ago, ]\Ir. Bower said: "I have 

 planted white pine to reclaim light 

 ridges^ on more than one occasion. 

 We got 23,000 pines about three years 

 old. and from 12 to 18 inches high. 

 There were seven of us ^vith a team 

 and plow. We plowed furrows five 

 feet apart, following the plow with a 

 spade and opening a slit in the bot- 

 tom of the furrow, while another 

 helper slipped a plant to the proper 

 depth into the slit thus made and 

 pressed the soil about it with his 

 fork. The plants were set four feet 

 apart in the furrow and the furrow 

 was left to fill in gradually. ii.-N.o 

 plants were set in one day and the 

 four-acre lot completed in two days. 

 No fertilizer was used and no culti- 

 vation whatever followed planting. In 

 five years these trees were as high as 

 a man and some of them three inches 



in diameter. A very small percentage 

 failed to grow, but after some years 

 there is a natural dying out through 

 overcrowding, which earlier has 

 served the purpose of preventing side 

 brouchings " 



Makes Good Investment. 



Another Simconian, who brought 

 5,000 plants home in his Ford car 

 protests that growing pine on land 

 now waste, that should never have 

 been laid bare is a better investment 

 than life insurance. 



But all varieties of trees cannot be 

 grown on soil suited to their nature 

 with the absolute neglect after plant- 

 ing that may obtain in the case of 

 remantling blow sand with pine. And 

 whatever be the variety, the transfer 

 should be made as rapidly as pos- 

 sible, and the root fibres should never 

 be allowed to dr}^ off or be exposed 

 to wind or sunlight longer than is ab- 

 solutely necessary. 



The black locust produces a splen- 

 did fence post which lasts longer 

 than oak, cedar, ash or chestnut, and 

 is now being grown at Forestville for 

 this purpose in seven years. Hard- 

 wood varieties at the station, planted 



