Canadian Forestry Journal, Jnly. iq20. 



349 



authorizes bonding the Commonwealth 

 for $25,000,000 for the purchase of 

 such forest land. If, when the time 

 comes, serial bonds are issued for the 

 purpose, the interest, before many 

 years are past, will be carried by the 

 lands bought, and before the whole 

 series has been paid off, the purchase 

 will represent a net gain to the State. 



FULL SPEED AHEAD! 



The Canadian l'"iirc->try Association's 

 Eastern and Western Cars are attract- 

 ing great crowds. Latest reports from 

 Mr. Archibald Mitchell, in charge of 

 the Western or "Tree Planting Car." 

 show that the enterprise is meeting 

 with great success, and that the farm- 

 ers are taking a very keen interest in 

 the daily lectures and discussions on 

 tree planting. Mr. Brule, F.E., Man- 

 ager of the Southern St. Lawrence 

 Protective Association, is in charge of 

 the Association's Eastern or "Forest 

 Products Exhibit Car," which is tour- 

 ing the Gaspe Peninsula at time of 

 going to press. Mr. Brule reports an 

 average daily attendance of approxi- 

 mately 300 persons. The Eastern Car 

 will next tour the province of New 

 Brunswick under the direction of Mr. 

 (i. II. Prince, the Provincial Forester 

 of that Prcjvince. Mr. J. A. Doucet. 

 B.A., Jj.Sc.F., has been recently en- 

 gaged by the Association to lecture in 

 the Province of Quebec on forest con- 

 servation and fire protection. Mr. 

 1 )()ucet is at jjrcsent \-isiling elexen 

 towns in the Temiskaming district, 

 and on completion of this tour will visit 

 the Lake St. John district and a num- 

 ber of towns in the vicinity of Cirand 

 Alere and the St. Maurice River. Too 

 much praise cannot be gi\en to the 

 different railway i-onipanies which are 

 so heartily co-operating in the \arious 

 educational enter]>rises of the .Associa- 

 tion and making it ])ossiI)le tor our two 

 c;ir^ to visit a widely scattered popula- 

 tion. ^ -. 



DEFORESTATION AND BRIDGES 



The effect of llir rcnio\;il .,f thv 

 forest co\er (m thr w ;itcr>lu'(U ot iinr 

 waterwa\s is niore w idc-pri-ad tli.ii) !■- 

 generally -npiioscd. Xdl on]\ !•- the 

 snowf.iU .-illowcd to melt niofi' (inickl\- 



and heavy rainfall permitted to reach 

 the streams more rapidly, but in doing 

 so carries with it much lumbering 

 waste and other forest debris. Such 

 material causes serious jams, forming 

 itself into closely-woven masses against 

 the abutments and piers of bridges ; 

 the pressure of the water behind these 

 jams carries away the bridges and 

 their approaches, and floods much sur- 

 rounding territory. 



The rapid rise (jf the streams in re- 

 sponse to the precipitate run-off also 

 requires the provision of greater clear- 

 ance between the abutments of bridges, 

 whereas the tendency has been to re- 

 duce the spans, thus emphasizing the 

 possibility of their destruction by 

 freshets. Mr. James W. AlacKenzie, 

 Assistant Road Commissioner of Nova 

 Scotia, says : 



"It seems to have been the custom 

 for years, as wood became scarce, to 

 narrow uj) and confine the streams in 

 smaller vents. If it is a fact that tlic 

 clearing of the country is the cause of 

 the water runing off suddenly in case of 

 heavy downfalls, our bridges must be 

 enlarged to carry the increased 

 streams, and this has been my experi- 

 ence during the last twenty years. 



The most destructive summer freshet 

 experienced in the counties of Anti- 

 gc~»nish and I'ictou for the last twenty 

 years, was the freshet of August jnd. 

 rgo8. .Some forty-six bridges in .\nti- 

 gonish county and fifty-six in Pictou 

 were carrii'(l out. and in some sections 

 e\ery structure in wood was clearetl 

 awa}'. 1 took particular notice that, 

 where the lumber trimmings had been 

 thrown into the sln-am. the de-^truction 

 was the greatest. 



.*>teps slionid br taken to pre\ I'ut 

 Inndn'ring anil mill ri'luse being wash- 

 ed into the >treams. and ti* remo\e ob- 

 Ntructions in the streams on whicii jam- 

 m.i\- fi>rm." ITom ("onservation. 



BRING BIRDS TO THE PRAIRIES 



( SaskalchciK-aii I'armrr. ) 

 "The \ision which we would like ev- 

 er\ fainur on the i>raii"U'< lo >eo is a 

 shrllrr bell a rod wide on llie w fst and 

 north of every >(|nare mile of the prai- 

 ries. 



