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Marmora and Lake Townships, Hastings County. 



In reply to your letter re non-agricultural lands in Marmora and 

 Lake townships that could be re-forested, would say that at least 

 one-half of Lake township could be re-forested, perhaps about 40,000 

 or 50,000 acres. There is considerable timber in Lake township yet. 

 Only a small portion is used for agricultural purposes. 



In regard to Marmora township, I would estimate that there are 

 about 30,000 acres that could be re-forested. 



Would think that it would be a grand thing to establish a forest 

 reserve on those lands. Bush fires would be the greatest hindrance. 



Hoping to hear from you at an early date to know if the matter is 

 progressing favourably through the other parts of Canada. 



Limerick Township, Hastings County. 

 You have asked me a hard question to answer. In the first place, 

 this township is not a good farming township. A man who intends 

 to do anything wants from three to five hundred acres, in order to work 

 the best portion, and pasture the rough portions. There is about 50,000 

 acres of land in the township, about 17,000 assessed to residents. The 

 balance is held by non-residents. I estimate that there are from ten to 

 twelve thousand acres as good as what is settled on and woiild be settled 

 if it could be bought. There are from ten to fifteen thousand acres that 

 has been mostly a pinery. It is all stripped and left a slash and the fire 

 has run over it until it is a barren looking place, so grown up with small 

 red cherry, some poplar, and small undergrowth, that it is hard to get 

 through it. Some places there is little pine. There was some land 

 burned over when I first came in the township, forty-eight years ago. 

 It has been mostly all cut over and is pretty much all a slash. I have 

 watched the growth of the timber and it makes very slow progress. 

 Some affords some wood but nothing of value. I am one of the oldest 

 settlers and have been through the forest a good deal, and my opinion 

 is that the second growth will never amount to much. 



Chandos Township, Peterborough County. 

 Yours of the 22nd to hand and contents noted. The assessment 

 of 191 1 of the Township of Chandos, gives the total number of acres of 

 waste land as 1 1,158 acres, while perhaps 25 per cent of this is drowned 

 land, or too wet for forestry. The balance, or as much of it as possible, 

 should, in my opinion, be administered for forest reserve purposes. 



Harvey Township, Peterborough County 



In reply to your letter, I would say that I judge there is twenty 

 per cent of this township of Harvey unsuited for agricultural purposes, 

 and that it would be a wise act to have the said twenty per cent reserved 

 for forest purposes. 



Harvey Township, Peterborough County 

 In answer to your letter of Jan. 17,1 would hke some more informa- 

 tion in regard to what you would consider non-agricultural lands. 

 There is a great deal of land in Harvey township not suitable for culti- 

 vation. In fact, I do not think that more than 20 per cent of Harvey 

 is at present under cultivation. This includes about all that is suitable 

 for cultivation, and some that is not suitable. On the other hand, 



