less or ignorant one or some porcupine as careless as 

 he destroys it. 



So act that you do not interfere with the rights or 

 destroy the pleasures of others, for of such is the true 

 order of campers. 



FARMING OUR CUT-OVER LANDS 



By R. G. CHEYNEY 



IT is one thing to sit in a heavily upholstered office 

 and write rosy-tinted lures for prospective settlers 

 in our cut-over areas, and an entirely different thing 

 to farm those areas. Enough lies have been printed on 

 this subject to fill several sets of the Encyclopedia Bri- 

 tannica and every one of them has done more or less 

 injury to the actual development of the North coun- 

 try. We have heard enough about preparedness in 

 connection with the present war to realize that a cer- 

 tain advantage accrues to the man who knows what he 

 is up against and is supplied with the necessary knowl- 

 edge and equipment to meet the conditions. Confi- 

 dence is a great thing, but there is no sense in send- 

 ing out a green hunter after a grizzly bear, equipping 

 him with a twenty-two pistol and telling him that the 

 bear is gentle and easily killed. It may give him a 

 splendid confidence in his search for the bear, but he 

 is likely to become hopelessly discouraged when he 

 finds it. 



Much the same results follow when an innocent man 

 from a civilized country takes up a home in our cut- 



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