Canadian Foreslrif Journal, Juhj, U>1S 



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White Pine Forest with an Understorey of Spruce, well Illustrating the Tendencies of 

 White Pine Areas when Cut Over to Come Back in Other Species. 



Save the Soldiers from Profitless Lands 



The danger that some of Canada's 

 returned soldiers may be settled by 

 Government commissions on lands 

 wholly ansLiited for agricultaral com- 

 munities is engaging more and more 

 public attention. In the case cf 

 Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick 

 and British Columbia, it is comforting 

 to note that only lands of proved 

 agricultural possibilities are being 

 opened to soldier-settlers. The 



importance of land classitication by 

 agricultural and forestry experts is 

 recognized and practised in these 

 provinces to a degree that promises 



well for the land settlement policies 

 of the future. In Ontario, for example, 

 only the splendid agricultural soils 

 of the Claybelt are being opened to 

 the s ildier communities. All future 

 settlement will be similarly safe- 

 guarded, as far as organized colonies 

 are concerned. There remains the 

 danger so long persisting in Ontario 

 and Quebec, with its attendant waste 

 of human effort and its ill effects upon 

 forest conservation, that sections of 

 timber lands of doubtful agricultural 

 value will continue to be thrown open 

 to settlement, therein- creating all too 



