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had a run-off of 95 per cent of the precipitation, experienced a 

 run-off in April (per square mile) of less than one-third of that 

 from the forested catchment areas, and in June the flow from the 

 non-forested area had ceased altogether." 



This has been the universal accompaniment of deforestation 

 in Ontario and elsewhere. For the Ontario farmer this last con- 

 sideration is of great practical importance. The question of pre- 

 serving of renev/ing forests on a large scale is not for him. That 

 is a State affair. But the denuding of local hillsides and water- 

 sheds can yet, in many sections, be stayed, or, if denuded, they 

 may, without excessive labor and expense, be replanted, and the 

 evils of wholesale removal of the forest, to some extent, mitigated. 



The Secretary has received several requests for copies of the 

 First Annual Report of the Canadian Forestry Association, w^hich 

 it has been impossible to comply with, as the supply has been 

 exhausted. If any members of the Association or others have 

 spare copies the Secretary will be glad to be informed. No charge 

 has been made for any of the reports of the Association when is- 

 sued, but no doubt those who are anxious to obtain copies of the 

 first issue would be prepared to do so even if it should be neces- 

 sary to make some return to the present holders. 



There has been considerable excitement in Toronto recently 

 in regard to the removal of shade trees from the streets. Whe- 

 ther the agitation is well directed or not may be a question, for 

 sometimes the removal or replacing of trees is a necessity, con- 

 sidering it only from the point of view of the trees themselves. 

 The form of butcher}^ which passes for improvement in some 

 civic administrations, and which is perpetrated by persons with- 

 out even a rudimentary idea of proper cutting or pruning of trees,, 

 cannot, however, be too severely conderaned, and there is great 

 room for improvement in this respect in Canadian cities and 

 towns. 



