Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1918 



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reasonably efficient administration. 

 A system of burning "permits" is 

 imposed on those clearing land or 

 roadways. A penalty of $50 is at- 

 tached to acts of wilful carelessness 

 such as the dropping of lighted 

 matches or tobacco within or near 

 any forest or woodlot. Provision 

 is made for compulsory piling of 

 slash within 300 feet of the railway 

 track. The Act profitably approp- 

 riates certain clauses by which the 

 Dominion Railway Act has safe- 

 guarded the territory contiguous to 

 roads under its control from fires 

 caused by railway smoke stacks, 

 ash pans, etc. The clauses dealing 

 with the inspection of railway ap- 

 pliances, the enforcement of railway 

 patrol, etc., should quickly do away 

 with the large number of fires which 

 have caused needless losses m the 



past, 



Editorial, Frederidon Gleaner 

 To what extent does the annual 

 cut in this province exceed the 



annual growth? It was said some 

 eight years ago that the annual 

 cut was not in excess of the annual 

 growth, but recent information does 

 not appear to support this opinion. 

 If we are cutting in excess we are 

 impairing our capital. The Minister 

 of Lands and Mines appears t^ be 

 strongly of the view that we are 

 cutting largely in excess, for he 

 argues that at the present rate 

 our forest lands would be almost 

 depleted of spruce and fir in about 

 eighteen years, if the annual growth 

 were not taken into consideration 

 and the annual growth he figures at 

 something less than five per cent. 

 We must, therefore, proceed cau- 

 tiously and prudently, seeking not 

 only to increase production and to 

 eliminate unnecessary waste but also 

 to get adequate returns from the 

 annual cut. 



Planting by Dynamite 



By F. Norman Supplee, Landscape Engineer. 



At the Cheshire Hunt Club Kennels 

 at Unionville, Pa., owned by Mr. 

 W. Plunkett Stewart, considerable 

 landscape development was under- 

 taken. 



A farm, perhaps tw^ hundred 

 years old, had been purchased on 

 which the original mansion stood 

 and the lane leading up to it was 

 lined by 150 year old pines. With 

 here a branch gone, there a top 

 taken out by some severe storm, 

 but stalwart, though gnarled, they 

 still raised their grand heads to 

 face the storms of the four winds. 

 Mr. Stewart, realizing that some 

 day these old fellows must go, decided 

 to plant some young evergreens to 

 take their places and then to continue 

 from where this lane struck the 

 public road right on up into the 



opposite field with another lane of 

 evergreens to the kennels. 



In order to give a pleasanter 

 treatment arOjund the manse, it was 

 decided to plant a screen separating 

 it from the barn, and to make the 

 houndsman's cottage more pictur- 

 esque, some planning to soften its 

 outlines and to tone down its color 

 was made. The owner also decided 

 upon some foundation planting 

 around the base of the manse, with 

 an immense group of 150 year old 

 box in the circle of the driveway. 



In the planting of the trees along 

 the old lane, it was found to be 

 practically impossible to dig with 

 any expediency among the old pine 

 tree roots. Up the new lane a ledge 

 of rock of mica formation was struck 

 and in the screen between the manse 



