The Victorid, B.C. Convention. 



VXi 



FORESTRY IN KOREA. 



The iii()>t visilile iiiisfortuno of Korea ih 

 the lo>iH of h<«r forests, hays President Starr 

 Jonian, of Stanfor(i University, writing; in 

 the AmiTictin lievicw nf litviewn. Kxrept 

 alon^ the ^':ilii l{ivcr in the north, whore 

 still remain the pine fore>t> which the Hus 

 sian promoters had taken, Korea is prac- 

 tically a treeless land. 



Originally the forests were ilestroyed to 

 get rid of tij.;ers aiiij leopard*'. Now every 

 young tree or Itu^h that springs up is taken 

 for iirewood. The people luirn weeds and 

 hay, and suflFer greatly in the winter time. 

 Good cattle are rai.M'd in Korea, being us»>d 

 nuiiidy as heaits of burden, nevi>r fur milk. 



tie chance row n pim-i. in forbidden. A com- 

 plete and careful fort-try iiiu|i of Knr>-a )uu 

 been completed and c\c- • ri to 



fnri'-try for brintri'iL' > 'in 



u»e. 



Lt. <'ul. T. H. AtkiuMMi. m member of the 

 Ontario l^egixlative .\'-*eiidi|y for N 

 .Norfolk, is a strong advocate of rvfori :a 

 tion in Southern Ontario. In one of th* 

 debates during the .»e>Nion juxt piuiM'd, b« 

 di^cu^^ed th«' >iti:ation. Me argued that 

 tin- pr(jvirice was not giving nearly ctnxigh 

 money for this work of re fore-tat ioii. He 

 thought there ^houbl l>e thre*! hundred or 

 four hundred acri's of .\aste land '■ " ' ' I 

 each year. He aUo critici^ed what ' 1 



the ' cut an<l-^la^h ' polii-y followed in north 



The Heart of (he Down-cuwn Distriet ami Wati Tfr< iit . Naneouver 



but the jn'opie i-annof nlTord to keep thein 

 as they need all their hay to burn. 



The loss of titid>er ca"'e«t great w , 

 of land by wash of the hills. One hnn.i;. . 

 and .-eventy thou^and acres of land arv 

 taken to the ^ea every year. The wa»h of 

 the land destroys the breeiling grounds of 

 herring. 



The .Ia|>ane.'e have taken the task of rr 

 foresting v«>ry .»eriously. O. Saito, the head 

 forester, has in experimental ml' 

 nearly all the trees of value in te 

 regions. This year thrive million pim- ir»-»«' 

 were planted. (Vrtain privileges are grant 

 ed to farmers who rear the tree^ which are 



■ ' !' .»ii the 



nnd 

 iitr Inr 

 .. , . -inent tin. 

 Ix' cut on mirh a plan that ' 

 would have a good "^ • 

 over the area. In '' 

 try conhl lf« rrfore*t»'.l »i 

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given them, while the <lestniction of the lit-[>«riod. 



