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and at Ottawa cannot be expected to weeks and will address a joint lunch- 

 make headway." eon of the Calgary Board of Trade 



and Canadian Club, another evening 

 Mr. Black is also holding public meeting and two high school lectures 

 meetings in British Columbia for two in Calgary. 



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Succeeding With A Tree Plantation 



SILOAM TROUT PRESERVE— VIEW OF THE BROOK AND TROUT PONDS. 



One of the most interesting spots 

 in Ontario is near Uxbridge, Ontario, 

 at the Siloam Trout Preserve and 

 Plantation owned by Mr. T. B. 

 Prankish, 33 Prince Arthur Ave., 

 Toronto. 



Mr. Prankish has a property of 75 

 acres of which 25 acres are under 

 water, constituting one of the best 

 speckled trout preserves in the 

 Dominion. The township lot of 

 which it forms a part was patented 

 in 1790 and the following year a saw- 

 mill was erected which was run on the 

 water power developed until 1914. 

 In the Spring of 1912 Mr. Prankish 



began reforesting a portion of the 

 land and there are now well on to 

 fifteen thousand trees growing. They 

 consist of Scotch, Red, White and 

 Bull Pine besides Black Walnut, 

 Butternut, Red and White Cedar, 

 Red and White Oak, and White Ash. 



The first year's planting consisted 

 of 2500 Scotch pine out of which less 

 than six failed. A better picture of 

 vigorous growth could not be found; 

 some of the trees' have reached a 

 height of ten feet. 



Mr. Prankish spends most of his 

 summer months at this delightful 

 spot directing the work on, the 



