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Jlhtsti'dtcfl C(iitii(li(iii J-(irrstry M atjarjiiic, December. H)2<) 



Some Forest Fables ! 



No. 2 



By Dr. C. T>. HoTve 



Once u\n)U a tiiiit- a business man hail 

 many manu faciurin^' establishments 

 scattered all over the country, lie made 

 a great many ditTt'erent kinds of articles 

 and all these articles were made of \voo<l. 

 The articles were very well made and 

 were very useful. The people bo''g,i;l 

 them eaj^erly and paid high prices for 

 them. The business prospered and the 

 manufacturer of wood ])roducts becciuie 

 very rich. In iact, there were only two 

 other men in the country richer than he. 



It will be seen that he was verv care- 

 ful and business-like in his m.ethods, 

 otherwise he would not have r.uide so 

 much money. His factories were well 

 organized ; each workman was carefullj' 

 trained to do his bit ; he did it ^vell and 

 was paid accordingly to the value of his 

 service. Since the manufacturing estab- 

 lishments were so valuable and were 

 such big- money earners, they w^er? well 

 protected against loss ,by fire. In some 

 places as in sawmills, bucket brigades 

 were organized ; in others like planing 

 mills, connections were made witli high 

 pressure water-mains ; in paper mills 

 automatic alarms or automatic sprinkler 

 systems were installed. The more Aalu- 

 able the property to be protected, the 

 more the money expended in protec^.on 

 against fires. 



This manufacturer got all his raw ma- 

 terials out of which he made so niucli 

 monev b\- using thought and care and 

 labor, from trees of various kini^s iliar 

 grew in a forest. He didn't own any 

 trees ; he had to Imy them from another 

 man and that other man owned n^any. 

 many acres of trees ; in fact, most ~)t the 

 best trees of the country were in 1ms 

 possession. 



Now, unortunately. in sharp contrast 

 to the successful manufacturer, the owner 

 o fthe trees was rather slothful and un- 

 businesslike in his methods. He did not 

 require efificiency or skill in his workmen 

 and he paid them low wages. In the mat- 

 ter of fire protection, for example, we 

 have seen how the successful man man- 



age lliat, l>ul the owner of the 

 trees, on tlie otluM* liand, woulil 

 ])ut a decrepit old man and a \oung- boy 

 in charge of a forest that contained 

 trees worth .SI ,000,(X)0. They, of course, 

 were helpless w hen the fire came and the 

 forest would burn. In fact, so many 

 trees burned under this kind of manage- 

 ment that the manufacturer found it in- 

 creasingly difficult to get the raw mater- 

 ials for an increasing number of his ])ro- 

 ducts ; some he had to seek at great dis- 

 tances, others gave out entirely and had 

 to be brought in from foreign countries. 

 All this naturally helped to increase the 

 cost of wood products. In fact, it in- 

 creased so rapidly that the people 

 cried out greviously against the high 

 prices, but they themselves were the 

 owners of the trees they allowed to burn. 

 They cried out against conditions created 

 by their own negligence. 



In the long run in this world men 

 get what they pay for either in thought, 

 effort or money. The forests of Ontario 

 will continue to be destroyed by fire until 

 the thought, care and money put into 

 their protection is commensurate with tlie 

 value of the property involved. 



A Township to Plant Trees. 



The Township Council of Keene, Ont- 

 ario, has decided to take up the oft'er of 

 the Ontario Government to supply trees 

 and do the planting work on condition 

 that the Township supplies the land. 

 Under this enterprising scheme, the Pro- 

 vince undertakes to supervise the planta- 

 tion until maturity and tlien hand over 

 the timber crop to the municipality. 



The ofl:'er of the Ontario Government 

 to assist the Township Councils in re- 

 establishing timber crops on waste lands 

 is being taken up with eagerness. 



