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Canadian Forestry Journal, January, 1917 



places for two trees for the children 

 who live there, Oh^ yes, there are 

 some apartment houses that take 

 children. I've seen 'em! 



Then there are the children on the 

 farm, where father has brought in the 

 home tree from the back pasture, and 

 has sent John down to the freight 

 station, with forty bundles of trees 

 on the big sled. He is glad to have 

 that much more clearing done, and 

 to have the work pay for itself. He 

 wouldn't care, I am sure, to have a 

 tree-planting band go out and put 

 in two new ones. 



Besides, there is all the trouble and 

 expense of getting the two additional 

 trees, and the very great risk that 

 they will not live after they are plant- 

 ed would make possible a loss of 

 three trees instead of one. 



"The best way is to have just as 

 much or as little Christmas tree as 

 you wish, but not to try to make other 

 folks do things your way. • In many 

 cases the merriness of the Christmas of 

 the farm child depends on whether 

 there is a good sale for the trees that 

 the farmer hauls to train or town. 

 In any case, could we get the opinion 

 of the tree, it would probably echo 

 what one said in our discussion: "If 

 I were a tree I'd rather be used in 

 making little children happy at Christ- 

 mas than in any other way." 



The Christmas Tree Trade. 



It is most unfortunate from a con- 

 servation standpoint that Christmas 

 requires the use of tens and tens of 

 thousands of spruce and other ever- 

 green trees, observes the Pulp and 

 Paper Magazine. These trees are 

 cut down and shipped out by the 

 car load; the annual export making 

 very serious inroads on the future 

 timber supply of the nation. 



Among cattle men and farmers a 

 movement has been started to put a 

 stop to the killing of calves for veal. 

 It is pointed out that the present very 

 serious shortage in dairy and beef 

 cattle is largely due to the pernicious 

 habit of slaughtering young calves. 

 If a calf is allowed to grow to ma- 

 turity it plays a very much larger 

 part in the economic life of the na- 

 tion than if slaughtered shortly after 

 birth. 



In much the same way the cutting 

 down of young spruce trees affects 

 our supply of pulp wood. A man 

 gets but a few cents for .a Christmas 

 tree yet it is probably cut from a 

 hillside which is incapable of grow- 

 ing anything else but trees. The 

 cutter never thinks of replacing the 

 destroyed tree with a seedling and 

 so the way is paved for the land to 

 become a barren waste. If the tree 

 is left to mature and then cut and 

 used to make paper the return is much 

 larger and with our growing apprecia- 

 tion of the value of reforestation 

 the probabilities are that a seedling 

 or two would be planted to take the 

 place of the tree cut down. 



From the standpoint of the paper- 

 men the Christmas tree trade is most 

 hurtful and we would like to see the 

 Pulp and Paper Association and the 

 Commission of Conservation take 

 some action in the matter. 



Above all others the cry of "Wood- 

 man spare that tree" goes out to the 

 man who cuts down and ships out 

 car loads of young spruce trees. 



Canada As a Paper Maker. 



Indications point to Canada as 

 one of the most important pulp and 

 paperproducers of the world for many 

 years. There is no reason, except 

 apathy respecting fire-protectibn in 

 the pulp producing regions, why Can- 

 ada should not produce perpetually 

 a large part of the world's paper. 

 The large spruce forests in the east 

 and north including the sub-arctic 

 forest which has value chiefly for 

 pulp, show Canada's capacity to grow 

 suitable wood in enormous quantities, 

 sufficient, with any kind of protec- 

 tion and management, to supply the 

 demand of all time. Pulp forests 

 are, however, particularly susceptible 

 to fire, and need careful protection. 



It is gratifying to see that some of 

 the most progressive pulp companies 

 are successfully protecting their lands 

 from fire. On account of the com- 

 paratively rapid growth of pulp tim- 

 ber to a commercial size it appears 

 that pulp companies will be the first 

 who can prove that scientific forest 

 management is good business for a 

 private concern. 



