Canadian Foreslry Journal, March, 1917 



1007 



years to get a start, and will gladly 

 give il approval and support. 



With the forest survey and land 

 classification completed, New Bruns- 

 wick will have a first-rate inventory 

 of its two main resources. The real 

 task of building a foreslry policy will 

 then require the utmost care, if the 

 limber assets are to be administered 

 on the basis of permanent yield. No 

 consideration, however, should be 

 allowed at this time to place the 

 slightest obstacle in the way of the 

 survey, which Mr. P. Z. Gaverhill is 

 directing. To do so would be to 

 throw the province back into the dark 

 ages of forest administration. 



The completion of the forest sur- 

 vey, however, need not hold back a 

 modern fire prevention policy, which 

 New Brunswick imperatively needs. 

 The late Government was definitely 



committed to a reorganized fire pro- 

 tection plan in the timbered areas. 

 The new government can place before 

 the Legislat^jrc no more statesman- 

 like undertaking than to erect a 

 barrier against needless fire losses in 

 much the same way as Ontario is now- 

 doing. Elimination of fire is surely 

 non-conlroversial. There can be no 

 'Opposition criticism' in the New- 

 Brunswick Legislature to a sensible 

 and thorough scheme to overcome the 

 annual havoc of flames. 



The Canadian Forestry Association 

 will probably hold a Maritime Pro- 

 vince Convention shortly after the 

 conclusion of the war. It is earnestly 

 hoped that the assembly will be able 

 to speak of New Brunswick forestry 

 conditions as comparing creditably 

 with those of any other Province in 

 the Dominion. 



How to Plant on the Prairies 



"Farm Forestry" was the subject 

 of an interesting address by Norman 

 M. Ross, chief of the tree-planting 

 division at the Dominion government 

 forestry farm at Indian Head before 

 the Manitoba Horticultural and For- 

 estry Association at Winnipeg. 



Mr. Ross said that the three mo- 

 tives which prompted a farmer to 

 plant trees are (1) for windbreaks; 

 (2) for ornamental purposes; (3) for 

 woodlots where trees are grown for 

 the material they may produce. 



"Everywhere we go," said Mr. 

 Ross, "in the country we see the re- 

 sults of haphazard tree planting. In 

 summer the garden plots so over- 

 shaded with trees that no vegetables 

 or small fruit will grow, and in the 

 winter, lanes so drifted with snow 

 between the trees as to make them 

 almost impassable." He urged that 

 careful thought and preparation as 

 to location and arrangement of the 

 trees was the first step in tree plant- 

 ing; if possible a plan should be 

 drawn to scale to embrace all the 

 grounds to be set aside for buildings, 

 gardens, ornamental grounds, roads. 



tree belts, etc., and this plan adhered 

 to. 



Tree Belts 



The tree belts, Mr. Ross said, 

 should not be more than 10 to 15 feet 

 wide, for unless they are protected 

 with snow breaks they are liable to 

 be broken down in the centre with 

 the heavy snow; for the same reason 

 it is not well to plant trees very close 

 around buildings as the snow has a 

 tendency to drift up in the middle. 



The tree planting should be done 

 gradually, too much should not be 

 attempted at once, every year a piece 

 of land should be thoroughly sum- 

 mer-fallowed for planting the fol- 

 lowing spring and no more than can 

 be comfortably handled should be 

 planted each year. If this method is 

 followed, in the course of a few 

 years the original plan will be com- 

 pleted and the disappointments and 

 discouragements which inevitably 

 follow rash and haphazard planting, 

 will be avoided. 



Mr. Ross said* that he had no hesi- 

 tation in advising deep summer fallow 

 in every case, and while in a few in- 



