Farm Forestry in the Eastern Provinces 59 



required in the up-keep and extension of farm construction. 

 The poorest portion of the farm, that unfit for tillage, may 

 thus be made to bring in the best ret^irns. On a well regulated 

 farm of one hundred acres 25% should be left in forest. In 

 harvesting, the openings should not be made so large at any 

 time in this wood-lot as not to be easily re-seeded from the ad- 

 jacent trees. 



The forest will not only benefit the farm and add to its 

 value in all the ways we have been describing, but it will so 

 beautify it as to make life doubly pleasureable to those upon 

 it and also to the community in which it is placed. "A thing 

 of beauty is a joy forever" — and what so beautiful as a thrifty 

 tree in the open, a line of trees by the roadside, a clump of trees 

 in some waste corner, a well kept grove or wind-break sheltering 

 the farm buildings, or a wood-lot lifting its head high to the 

 sky in conscious pride of its worth on the rear line of the holding? 

 The value of that farm, if by any necessity it has to be put on 

 the market, is greatly enhanced by such adornment and the 

 extra cost of it has been little or nothing to the farm^er when 

 everything is computed. Nay, it has paid him a hundred fold, 

 bettering and blessing his life. 



"Nature is man's best teacher. She unfolds 



Her treasures to his search, unseals his eye. 



Illumes his mind, and purifies his heart. 



An influence breathes from all the sights and sounds 



Of her existence." 



- -Street. 



The question comes naturally to every lip. "How are 

 we to restore in sections impaired the proportion of forest to 

 field, how maintain it where it exists at present? How are 

 we to bring about in Eastern Canada a sane system of farm 

 forestry?" To our mind a general forestry policy should be 

 quickl}^ and effectually evolved by the central authority, not 

 only with regard to the new countries under its control where the 

 mistakes of older Canada must not be repeated, but also in the 

 older portions where the national life has been adversely affected 

 by the dangers with which the sacrifice of the forest have menaced 

 it in its economic, agronomic, climatic, hygienic and aesthetic 

 relations. As with agriculture even where the provinces have 

 supreme control, a paternal policy productive of the best results 

 has been long adopted federally by which educational and practi- 

 cal assistance has been bestowed, so in the forestic endeavour 

 the presence of the instructor and the bestowal of stock where- 

 with to re-plant may become necessary. The farmer can thus 

 be taught the value of his wood-lot at comparatively little 

 expense to the country, rttid the result in j-jrosperitv and national 



