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Canadian Forcstrij Journal, September, 1918 



and oats and potatoes would perish. 

 How sensible it is, therefore, to put 

 on each kind of land exactly the 

 growth that will bring the owner 

 most money. Of course, trees will 

 grow quicker and better on rich clay 

 loam, but such soil rightly belongs to 

 the farmer and should be cleared. 

 Good soil is not nearly as important 

 in forestry as in agriculture. The 

 forest is a natural improver of soil, 

 for each year the decaying needles, 

 leaves, twigs and branches add to the 

 richness of the ground, while wheat 

 and oats and barley take away from 

 the soil without adding much to it. 

 Here is another feature. The 'sub- 

 soil' — underneath the surface layer 

 — is not important in farming but 

 it is most important in growing 

 forests because the trees sink their 

 roots very deep and draw up for 

 Lheir nourishment the moisture lying 

 far beneath the surface. Land too 

 dry on the top layer for field crops 

 will often grow splendid trees." 



How do the timberlands make 

 Ontario prosperous? 



■'wSuppose we were to draw a 

 picture of two long roads. One 

 road leads from the forest to the 

 paper mill. Down it we see a great 

 procession of spruce and balsam logs, 

 bound for the huge 'grinders.' It 

 is hard to guess how many logs there 

 are, but one Canadian mill takes out 

 of the forest a million trees a year. 

 Then we see the other road, leading 

 from the mill to the great cities of 

 (Canada and the United States. No 

 longer do we fmd a procession of logs, 

 but of mammoth rolls of paper, 

 ready for the printing presses. Do 

 you know that in the United States 

 and Canada every week-day forty 

 million newspapers are whirled from 

 the printing presses and that 6,000 

 tons of raw paper are necessary to 

 keep those presses in operation?" 



"But there is something else in 

 the picture. While the logs almost 

 fill up one road and the manufactured 

 paper fills up another, we see a more 

 wonderful line of wagons returninu 

 from the cities and towns where the 

 paper cargoes have gone. What are 

 these return wagons carrying? It 



looks like an endless band of gUnting 

 gold. Indeed that is exactly what it 

 proves to be, for these wagons are 

 bringing back into Canada from 

 Uncle Sam's great country to the 

 south 40 millions of dqllars just for 

 a twelvemonth's supply of paper. 

 All along the roads, men in charge of 

 the wagons hand out small bags of 

 the rich metal to eveiy man who had 

 anything to do with making the paper 

 or cutting or driving the logs. Thou- 

 sands of men claim and receive their 

 share until when the wagons at last 

 reach the camps in the forest most of 

 the money has been distributed." 



"This gold seems to come from the 

 cities, doesn't it? Actually, however, 

 it comes from the forest. The 

 moment the forest is ruined, the pro- 

 cession comes to a stop. Logs no 

 longer go to the mill, paper no longer 

 goes to the cities and the wagons of 

 gold no longer start on their welcome 

 journey into the towns and villages 

 and farming communities of our 

 Province." 



"The little picture we have called 

 to your imagination applies in the 

 same way to the lamber mills. 



"So now we have come to the end 

 of our little catechism on the Forests. 

 No there is something else — the 

 Pledge. Every boy and g'rl who 

 wants to strke a good blow for Can- 

 ada will see that their names are 

 entered in the back of this booklet." 



CANADA CLAIMS SHIP RECORD 



Canada now claims the record for 

 wooden ship building on the American 

 continent. The feat was accomp- 

 lished by Quintan & Robertson Ship- 

 building Co. of Quebec, in the 

 construction of the War Seneca, a 

 wooden steamer. This vessel was 

 launched on June 13 and a dock 

 steam trial was made forty-eight 

 days later by turning over the main 

 engine and auxiliaries under steam. 

 This is six days better than the previ- 

 ous best made in the United States, 

 which is said to have been fifty-four 

 days. The ship was built for the 

 Imperial Munitions Board. 



