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SHINGLE CREEK, OKANAGAN VALLEY, B.C:. 

 showing Yellow Pine type on slopes. This forest has sustained several fires and the hill 

 slightly eroded. There is little undergrowth and fair grazing. 



The Menace To Our White Pine 



By Prof. J. H. Faull, Ph. D., University of Toronto 



Canada's Greatest Timber Tree Rapidly Losing 

 Its Rank. Blister Disease Makes Headway, 



White pine is the basic tree on 

 which the forest wealth of Canada, 

 east of the Great Plains and of the 

 North Eastern States, has rested; 

 it has been the source of the success 

 and the fortunes of our great lumber 

 companies, it has contributed largely 

 to the revenues of our government — 

 in Ontario to such an extent as to 

 free us so far from direct taxation — 

 and it has brought comfort to the 

 home of every citizen, for it has 

 been used inside and out as has no 

 other in the building and furnishing 

 of the dwelling and its surroundings, 

 in which the home resides. 



"This is the forest primeval. The 

 murmuring pines and the hemlocks," 



so Longfellow pictured the Acadian 

 forests of Evangeline's people. With 

 the hemlock we are not concerned 

 here, but what of the pine? That 

 primeval forest of the Annapolis 

 Basin with its closely-spaced "mur- 

 muring pines." the plumed crowns 

 waving a hundred feet or more above 

 the darkened lloor, and the clean 

 straight shafts three to four or five 

 feet in diameter, stretching up sixty 

 to seventy feet without a break was 

 but a small corner of the glorious 

 primeval forest of pine that covered 

 the maritime Provinces, Quebec and 

 Ontario south of the Height of Land, 

 Minnesota, \\'isconsin, Michigan, 

 Ohio, New York, ^iaine and the 



