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Canadian Forestry Magazine, October, icj20. 



Immense destruction has been caused 

 by the spruce budworm in the Provinces 

 of Quebec and New Brunswick, and this 

 sudden extension of the outbreak into 

 Ontario threatens all the spruce and bal- 

 sam timber between Lake Temiskaming 

 and the Great Lakes. In conjunction 

 with the air suhvey, detailed entomologi- 

 cal studies are being made by ground 

 survey. 



The plane and party remained in the 

 north for about three weeks with Hailey- 

 bury as the base. Col. Leckie returned 

 to Ottawa in preparation for his flight 

 across the continent from Halifax to 

 Vancouver. On this trip he will come 

 north as far as North Bay travelling 

 from there in the direction of Georgian 

 Bay and the Great Lakeia. He was much 

 taken up with the country covered yes- 

 terday, and describes the Ottawa valley 

 as a "wonderful sight" from the air. 



Apart from their baggage, the flyers 

 brought some personal mail from Ottawa 

 to Capt. \\'ickens and Air. Craig, which 

 marks the first time in the history of the 

 north country that mail has been brought 

 by aeroplane. 



British Subsidize Home Building 



The British Government is making a 

 free off"er of ^260 to anyone who will 

 undertake to build a house. The builder 

 can occupy it himself or let it to a ten- 

 ant. He can, if he likes, when it is com- 

 l-leted sell it, for the grant carries no irk- 

 some conditions, it is not repayable and 

 becomes in fact absolutely the property 

 of the owner. The building must of 

 course conform to official regulations, it 

 must be approved by the local authority, 

 but beyond that approval the grant is 

 free. It is paid in check without delay 

 when the building is completed. It makes 

 house building, even in these difficult 

 times, both possible and profitable, espec- 

 ially when the builder intends the house 

 for his own occupation. The object of 

 the grant is, of course, primarily to en- 

 courage private persons to build houses 

 for themselves and thus relieve the enor- 

 mous pressure placed on the local coun- 

 cils. 



No "Bare Pr.mrie" for This Man 

 (Calgary Herald. j 



If tliere was anything that was mis- 

 sii.g in the drive to two miles south 

 of Coaldale, it was the trees in that vary- 

 ing landscape of green. But the rich 

 vegetation on all sides obliterated all 

 thought of trees until their presence, in 

 making the home and the farm beautiful, 

 v.'is realized when the excursion arrived 

 at the farm of John Hamilton, one of 

 the C.P.R. readymade farms. What- 

 ever wonderment was previously sensed 

 in the rich and varied verdure of crop 

 and grass was for the moment swept 

 aside in the sight that greeted the visit- 

 ors of a farm which for appearance 

 would be hard to beat in any of the old 

 settled farm districts. It was astonish- 

 ment of a new kind that was aroused 

 ^vhen it was realized that what is now a 

 '.veil cared for farm, that might have been 

 inhabited by a generation of farmers, 

 "-vas only seven years ago a part of the 

 bald prairie. The beautiful ring of trees 

 ^vbich encircled the home plot of the 

 farm looked as if it had been there for 

 a period of years, and yet the trees were 

 cnly planted in 1916, four years ago ; and 

 dien in slips of nine inches or so long 

 to grow into what now are trees rising in 

 height to some fifteen and twenty feet. 

 And all this, together with the rich 

 fields of wheat and the alfalfa stacks in 

 ihe farm, obtained by irrigation wisely 

 applied. The astonishment grew when 

 it was ascertained that this carefully and 

 richly cultivated farm of 320 acres was 

 the outcome of the labors of one man 

 with the help of a hired man. 



The farm of Mr. Hamilton is 

 a triumph of tlie virtues of irri- 

 gation. The windbreak, with its 

 six rows of trees, Manitoba maple 

 alternating with ash, with willow 

 and Russian poplar, making the two 

 outer circles, was the perfection of 

 \l\c windbreak trees can afford. On the 

 inner side of the circle of trees' all 

 through , skirting the home farm, is a well 

 trimmed hedge of caragana. In the 

 enclosure is an ideal kitchen garden, the 

 pride of the lady of the farm, Mrs John 

 Hamilton. 



