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Hovo the Prairie Gains by Trees 



In speaking- of the value of trees to 

 prairie communities, says an interview 

 in the Calgary Herald with Archibald 

 Mitchell, western lecturer of the Canad- 

 ian Forestry Association. Mr. Mitchell 

 said that there were two ways in which 

 water loss occurs on the prairies, which 

 are by drying out and being blown away 

 by the wind. When nature grows a block 

 of trees, he said, she speedily shuts out 

 the sun through the foliage of the trees 

 and at the same time keeps the drying 

 w^ind out by planting the trees close to- 

 gether. This principle must be followed 

 to a large extent on prairie farms, he de- 

 clared. The whole thing was a matter of 

 moisture and the thing to be kept in view 

 was that tree culture and grain growing 

 are the same. In grain growing the 

 farmer can check this water loss by sum- 

 mer fallow. Summer fallow in the forest 

 was out of the question of course, and 

 therefore the shade of tlie trees were 

 used to produce the same results. 



The tree problem was the same every- 

 where, he declared. The forester does 

 not pay so much attention to the trees as 

 he does to what is going on down below, 

 and what one sees above ground is a 

 mere indication of what is going on be- 

 neath it. 



Lightning's Share of Blane. 



"Let it be understood, there is no ex- 

 cuse for forest fires started by human 

 agency. .No man has a riglTt to start one 

 and allow it to escape. If there was any 

 danger in starting it, he had no right to 

 take the chance, and if he did take it he 

 should be ferreted out and take the con- 

 sequences. Rarely, but very rarely, a 

 forest fire originates from lightning, and 

 such an one is the only kind of fire lor 

 which there is no one to punish. In an 

 experience of fifty years I have seen but 

 two forest fires that I could charge to 

 lit'-htning." — Dr. RotJirock. 



