Canadian Forvslii/ Juurnal. November, 1918 



1921 



had been secured cfTorls were made scene of the fire. Two days subse- 



to locate them. qiiently the second man was appre- 



Five days later one of the men was hended. They will be tried for leav- 



arrested more then 100 miles from the ing a camp fire unextinguished. 



Forestry and Apple Growing 



Bij the lull lor of the Toronto ''Globe'' 



When most of one's life lime is 

 spent in the same locality changes 

 which go on from year to year, and 

 in the course of time become almost 

 revolutionary, pass almost unnoticed. 

 When another, after an absence of 

 30 years, returns to the same locality, 

 the extent of the changes w^hich have 

 taken place is observed at once, and 

 the possible efTects of these naturally 

 become a subject of enquiry. 



Mr. W. H. Belford of The Winni- 

 peg Free Press, recently visited his 

 old home in Northumberland county 

 for the first time, in summer, since 

 1888, and to him some things that 

 have taken place in the time stated 

 caused both astonishment and regret. 

 Orchards which were bent to the 

 ground with apples in the autumns 

 of his boyhood he found bearing 

 axceedingly light crops this year. 

 To him the statement that this was 

 due to the peculiarly trying condi- 

 tions of .last winter did not furnish 

 a sufficient explanation of the dif- 

 ference in yields between now and 

 then. In his view the cause of this 

 difference is found in the fact that 

 a country once well wooded is now 

 almost bereft of forest trees and that 

 a free sweep has thus been given to 

 the cold, dry winds of winter. 



Other causes than the one mention- 

 ed by Mr. Belford have, however, 

 been at work. Scarcity of help and 

 uncertainty as to markets have led 

 to neglect of the sparying, pruning 

 and cultivation now necessary to 

 the production of apples in this 

 Province. Still there is no doubt as 

 to the evil effects on the apple grow- 

 ing industry due to the unwise cutting 

 of foresl timber that has taken ])lace. 

 The removal of nature's protection 

 has subjected orchards that were 

 well cared for to climatic conditions 



which even these could not resist. 

 The severity of these conditions has 

 not only reduced the apple crop of 

 this year, but it has so weakened or 

 wholly destroyed thousands of trees 

 that a shortage in fruit is bound to 

 be experienced for years to come. 



The condition of Ontario orchards 

 in 1918 affords one more reason, and 

 an exceedingly cbgent reason, for 

 the adoption of a reafforestation 

 policy in Ontario. 



READER ! 



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