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regard for forestry; and fresh tracks of bear had been found on 

 the trail just outside camp. 



What is more pleasant than an evening in camp, especially 

 on a lake full of fine pike? When too late for fishing there is 

 always a vacant place for you at the camp fire. The pipes are 

 lighted, good yarns are following each other, and for hours you 

 sit there listening, till suddenly you find yourself alone Throw- 

 ing a piece of wood on the dying fire you manage in the upflam- 

 ing light to look at your watch. Midnight! All the fellows in bed. 

 And with lingering steps you go to follow their example. From 

 the lake there comes the weird cry of the loon and back in the 

 forest the wolves are howling. 



Much more could be said about a forester's interesting work 

 and his pleasures; about rainy days and millions of mosquitos. 

 But what true woodsman would mind the latter when he knows 

 that they are the evils of the early summer and that better days 

 are coming? 



There are farmers in every section of the older provinces 

 who regret their lack of foresight in the early days of settlement, 

 when trees were cut down heedlessly and indiscriminately on 

 their lands and burnt on the spot or sold as cordwood in the 

 neighbouring towns leaving them, as many are to-day, with little 

 or nothing to occupy them in the winter season, and without 

 shelter for their live stock at a time when pasture in the old 

 days was still accessible for weeks longer on the approach of 

 cold weather than it has been of later years. 



The influence of the forests of Canada upon the streams and 

 lakes has long been a problem with our people. The floods at Mon- 

 treal have cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars besides 

 interfering with business and affecting the health of the citizens. 

 It has been well known for years that the almost sudden down- 

 pour of water and cakes of ice in the spring, as compared with 

 early days, was due to the denudation of the forests in the upper 

 reaches which prevented the too rapid thawingof the ice and snows 

 on the inland lakes and streams, the feeders of our great rivers. 

 — The Canadian Journal of Commerce. 



