ILLUSTRATIONS 



I. Former Pineries Frontispiece 



II. Water Storage Basin Surrounded by an Old Burn 3 



One of the Numerous Undeveloped Water Powers 3 



III. A Natural Barren 5 



A Man-made Barren 5 



IV. Prospective Farm 11 



Abandoned Farm 11 



V. Abandoned Farm Still used for Pasture 38 



Bank Showing Cross-Section of Sub-Soil 38 



VI. Two Examples of Maple Forests 41 



VII. Mixed Type — Birch and Pine, on Thin Granitic Soil 47 



Similar Type Which Has Suffered Successive Fires 47 



VIII. Two Types of Reproduction after Fire 51 



IX. Seed Trees Left after Cutting ; Reproduction of Pine in Com- 



mercial Quantities 60 



X. Former Pineries : Insufficient Seed Trees Left to Re-Establish 



Crop on Commercial Basis 63 



XI. Cutting in Hardwood Forest : Little Danger of Fire 67 



Cutting in Pine Forest : Much Inflammable Material on Ground 67 



XII. Balsam-Cedar Swamp : Common Type in Northern Tier of Town- 



ships 89 



Natural Meadow between Granitic Ridges 89 



XIII. Sample of Tillable Soil to be Found on Upland Granitic Areas ... 92 

 Farm on a Glacial Moraine 92 



XIV. Field Strewn with Limestone Boulders : Good Pasturage between 



Them 95 



Poor Pasturage 95 



XV. Typical Upland Farm 97 



Better Type of Fakming Country : Gull River Valley Near Min- 



den 97 



XVI. White Pine Log Cut 23 Years Ago and Left as Defective Accord- 



ing to Standards of that Time 99 



The Present Harvest 99 



MAPS 



I. Forest Fires, 1913 32 



II. Forest Distribution in Trent Watershed In pocket 



III. Crown Timber'Lands In pocket 



