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Canadian Forestry Journal, January, 1917 



i Free Cartoon Service of Canadian Forestrv Assoc. I 



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Although the interests of the farm 

 and the forest have been regarded in 

 the past as more or less distinct and 

 hostile, the broader outlook stimu- 

 lated by the War has brought in- 

 telligent Canadians to understand the 

 woodsman and the agriculturist as 

 close partners in the great Canadian 

 estate. 



More than sixty per cent, of the 

 whole area of Canada is adapted by 

 Nature for growing timber or held 

 as permanent barrens and will not 

 produce field crops profitably. On 

 this sixty per cent, no farmer desires 

 an acre. At the same time it ought 

 to be producing revenues for the na- 

 tion. As much of it as possible 

 should be kept under frest growth, 

 producing wood crops regularly. This 

 is the argument for "forest conserva- 

 tion" in a nutshell. No one asks to 

 be allowed to use agricultural lands 

 for tree growing. And no farmer will 

 object if the country maintains non- 

 agricultural lands in their natural 

 money-making conditions, giving tim- 

 ber harvests year by year. 



but is the ally and supporter of agri- 

 culture. Canada takes $200,000,000 

 a year from the forests and a very 

 great part of this amount goes to 

 purchase farm products. Until every 

 destructive forest fire is stopped and 

 every timber-growing area restored 

 to its productive condition, Canada's 

 agricultural interests must suffer the 

 chief loss. Of every hundred dollars 

 that come out of the forest, seventy- 

 five dollars go for wages and supplies. 

 The remaining twenty-five dollars pay 

 interest on the lumbermen's invest- 

 ment and help make up the $7,500,000 

 taken by the provincial and federal 

 governments each year in taxes. 



Canadian Forestry Association, 

 Ottawa. 



The Forest Dollar, therefore, is not 

 earned at the expense of agriculture. 



New B. C. Minister of Lands. 

 The Hon. Thomas Dufferin Pat- 

 tullo, has been chosen as Minister of 

 Lands in the new administration 

 formed by the Hon. H. C. Brewster. 

 Mr. Pattullo, represents the district 

 of Prince Rupert in the provincial 

 legislature, a section of the country 

 containing considerable forest re- 

 sources. 



