Canadian Forestry Journal, June, 1918 1749 



Good Results in Prairie Planting 



Bv Alex. Harding, Lolgheed, Alberta. 



When I began the work of raising a fairly large area with the greatest 



conifers here twelve years ago the economy. 



work met with the greatest scorn and Protection against the various 



ridicule from the public. People enemies of trees is the thing which 



hoped that the experiment would be offers the greatest difficulty, but I 



a disappointing failure. I was young think that ways have been arrived at 



then and the district had just been to meet them. 



opened but today most people con- It is my desire to carry out an 



sider that it has been a fme work, experiment with Engelmann spruce 



Most of the spruce are now but so far have been unable to obtain 



eleven years from seed and many of either seed or little trees from our 



them are from 7 feet to 9 feet 5 inches own Rockies. It is not that I expect 



in height. Pines are^nine years and this species to excel the white spruce, 



range up to 12 feet high. but I consider it best to make use of 



I have saved seed at times since several of the best species of timber 



and have a small stock coming on. trees when developing a farm wood- 



I also set in parcels of young trees lot. The white spruce is very free 



from the woods. I have planted a from injuries and defects but no one 



good sizedpatch both in the natural can tell what is ahead and by referring 



woods and in the open, but at present to European texts it becomes quite 



my intention is to carry out a thor- plain that trusting mainly to 



ough experiment covering all features species is not the best forestry 



of the work so that in time I can plant method. 



What is the Purpose of Conservation ? 



The purpose of conservation, in practice and as a public policy, is to 

 increase the productive power of natural resources and to heighten social 

 values. As we insist, it deals not with natural resources alone, but with the 

 coordinated functioning of natural resources, labor, and capital; and it is 

 particularly concerned with their productive possibilities in the future as 

 compared with their actual utilization in the past and the present. — "Founda- 

 tions of National Prosperiti;.'' 



Private Rights and Social Welfare 



"The final arbiter between private rights and social welfare is official 

 authority asserted in behalf of the sovereignty of the State and perpetuity of 

 society and made effective through the arm of the pohce power in supervising 

 and, possibly, restraining the arbitrary exercise of individual freedom and in 

 restricting' the unsocial use of property." — "Foundations of National Pros- 

 perity." 



"Natural resources are but one of three essential economic supports of 

 industrial society. Excepting extreme conditions of extensive or intensive 

 industrial organization, land, labor, and capital are mutually interchangeable 

 and compensatory in productive processes. The economic importance, or 

 value, of a unit of either in terms of another is, at any time, inversely pro- 

 portional to the relative supplies of the two." 



Conservation has been characterized as a managerial pohcy designed to 

 promote industrial capacity. 



