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Canadian I'orcsfry Magasine, August-September, ip20. 



For six miles west of liim tlie crops and 

 soil were completely blown away, anrl 

 yet no drift passed throug'h the third 

 strip to his house and garden. His belts 

 are too narrow for perfect success as 

 self-sustaining plantations on dry land, 

 being only 3 to 6 rows wide. If they 

 had been six rods wide little or no drift 

 would have passed through the first one, 

 and the whole field would have been 

 completely sheltered. The third strip is 

 the widest, consisting of six rows, and 

 counting from the west side, rows of 

 Willow, Russian Poplar, Ash and 

 Maple, Maple and Ash and Ash and 

 Maple being used. The three inner rows 

 were almost completely smothered with 

 the dust bank, five feet deep of it, but 

 yet these trees are all growing through 

 the pile of soil and have made from 2 

 to 3 feet growth this year, a conclusive 

 answer to the oft-heard doubt that the 

 tree would be destroyed by the soil drift 

 instead of the soil drift being stopped 

 by the trees. 



Three other well-treed places were 

 passed on the way to Taber, standing 

 rebukes to every other farm in the vicin- 

 ity, standing bleak and bare as they were 

 when first settled years ago, and shining 

 monuments of what can be done even in 

 the driest years on the Prairie in the 

 way of tree growing. 



Time Lost, Time Gained 



During the whole trip we have not 

 heard a man question the fact that trees 

 would help the country, help it in re- 

 taining snow in winter and prevent 

 evaporation in summer, afford shelter 

 from the winds and help to keep the land 

 inside the fences. 



There is never any doubt about these 

 things, the question is to find the time, 

 and when the method of planting two 

 acres of trees, easily, quickly and well is 

 presented, it leaves them thinking. They 

 see it, and they also see that two or 

 three days taken from the middle of their 

 wheat seeding is not time lost, but only 

 transposed, for the time taken from the 

 middle of wheat seeding, to plant rees, 

 is only transferred to the end of it after 

 all, and the httle frost risk they are 

 likely to run from the change will be far 

 more than counter-balanced by the gain 



resultant from the i)lanting of the trees. 

 Xumbers of tliem came into the country 

 (jnly to sell out after a few years, and 

 ])ut off their tree planting on that ac- 

 count ; but many are now beginning to 

 realize they have made a mistake, and 

 that, indeed, unless they plant, they will 

 not be able to sell their land at all. Many 

 more have been so hard pressed to solve 

 tlic Ijrcad and butter question, they have 

 not had time to attend to trees, that is, 

 they thought they had no time, but 

 when it is pointed out tliat in most cases 

 the bread and butter question is an al- 

 most endless chase anyway, and that a 

 week per year spent in planting and 

 caring for a good belt of trees would 

 never be noticed in the annual cycle._ 

 they begin to see how much they have 

 missed, both they and their families. 

 socially and financially, by keeping their 

 noses too close to the dollars-and-cents 

 grindstone. 



The truth is, the people really are tree 

 hungry, if they would only stop to think 

 about it, but like everything else one 

 does not understand, they are afraid to 

 tackle it. They forget that the planting 

 of a tree belt is, after all, only a short 

 job, but it is a completed job, and the 

 time taken will never be missed out of 

 the year's work. 



Telling Wood by its Color 



A French scientist asserts that he 

 has devised means of identifying tim- 

 ber by the various reactions on color- 

 ing matter it contains and that the 

 idea can be extended so as to prevent 

 deception in imported woods. 



From Blind Channel, B.C. 



"Enclosed find money order for two 

 dollars to cover subscription to the Can- 

 adian Forestry Journal. The Journal is 

 worth twice what it costs." 



From a Paper Company President 



"7 IwT'e your Memorandum of the 

 fo'Tstry Association's recent activities. 

 I consider this st>lendid work." 



