Canadian Forestry Magazine, October, ig20 



Mr. Sovez, of Alsask, Saskatchewan, refused to take the bare prairies as a visitation of prL md 



therefore beyond human remedy. This is how he establishes rows of evergreens to strengthen the belts of 

 shorter-lived species. 



For Every Prairie Farm a Tree Belt! 



How the Sutherland, Sask- Nursery is Aiding Western Farmers to 

 Improve Their Lands. 



The value of trees as an ornamental 

 feature of home surroundings in both 

 urban and rural munieipalilies needs no 

 argument or emphasis, but the additional 

 value of tree-planting to the farmer in 

 the prevention of soil-drifting should 

 be known and appreciated by every agri- 

 culturist who desires to get the best re- 

 turn from his grain fields. The dis- 

 astrous results in many prairie sections 

 during the last two years occasioned by 

 liie high winds should make this sub- 

 ject one of vast importance to the 

 farmer, and every assistance offered by 

 the government should be taken full ad- 

 vantage of. 



To help the agriculturists overcome 

 this seemingly great misfortune which 

 mj.y any year attend their efforts, and to 

 aid them in making ihrir prairie homes 

 assume tlie most ;itir.'u-tive appenrancc, 

 addiu!^ conitdrt a^ wrll .is |ili';isure, the 

 Dominiiiu (lovenmu'iil throusjh the l>o- 



partmeni of the Interior, has established 

 tiie Forest Nursery Stations, the chief of 

 which is at Indian Head. Saskatchewan, 

 and the most important branch at Suther- 

 land, Sask. Comprising three hundred 

 and twenty acres of average prairie land 

 and operated untler the superintendency 

 of James ^IcLean. this nursery station, 

 serves the greatest need of the prairie 

 farmer, who may more or less success- 

 fully cope with other difficulties, but 

 who in the face of the soil-drifting pro- 

 blem finds himself helpless except as 

 lu takes advantages of the solution af- 

 frrded through the planting of trees. 



F<>itndiii!^ of Xiirscry 



The land for this forestry farm w.ts 

 Iiuchased in 1*^1 J and in the summer 

 of T'l.^ was lirsi plcwod. ri.mting was 

 C'lUimenced in the >i>iing of PM4. so that 

 >^iv vears is tlie maximum period of 

 '■n wlh of an\- trees or shrubs to be 



