382 



Canadian Forestry Magazine, August-Septemher. ip20. 



He would have gotten better results with irrigation, but this farmer succeeded quite well in establishing 

 trees in Southern Alberta during the three excessively dry years just passed. 



Saskatchewan and ^^lanitoba. So far, 

 we have met some five thousand people 

 in meetings in the car and scores beside, 

 singly or in groups, all interested in tree 

 growing on the Prairie in some of its 

 phases. Very rarely indeed have the 

 meetings not begun on time, and often 

 six o'clock has found us still discussing 

 somebody's tree problem after the three 

 o'clock meeting, and many a time the 

 eight o'clock gathering has closed at 



eleven or half-past. 



Interest? There is no end to the in- 

 terest, people are hungry for tree and 

 plant information. As one of them re- 

 marked the other day: "We miss the old 

 Institute days, when we could at least 

 once a year get all our tree troubles 

 cleared up.'' The questions they ask 

 are both numerous and varied, and range 

 from the depth to sow Caragana seed to 

 what to do with a plantation when the 



Soil drifting is a grave problem for farmers in some of the southern prairie districts. Light soil, high 

 winds, and no thick belts to break the force of gales has in some cases blown two sowings 08 

 flax seed completely out of the ground in one season, making a third sowing necessary. The photo- 

 graph shows how the soil drifted through a settler's shelter belt because it was of insufficient density, 

 but even then he saved his fields from extensive damage. For six miles west of him the crops and 

 soil were completely blown away, due to lack of any wind-breaks. 



