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lUustratcd Canadian I-'orcsiry Magazine, December. ip20 



Does this sort 't' !■: Il'v is i juit r . ,,:i;;a: ic.rrxt l.uhl .: i-.i.l iipver have been taken 



out as a farm. The settler only wasted his years of labor and killed a productive patch of timber. 



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ONE OF OUR MANY DESERTED FARMS. 

 The land was designed for timber growing, and was too poor for field crops.. For lack of land classi- 

 fication in advance of settlement, the province lost the timber producing value of the land and the con- 

 structive service of a good farmer. Notice how the old fields are being reforested naturally with spruce. 



