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Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1917 



the encouragement of men, with fam- 

 iUes, who can find work in the logging 

 camps or mills for a certain period 

 in each year. Good crops can be 

 raised by cultivating between the 

 stumps, which can be removed as 

 conditions permit, but success will 

 be impossible if the settler is burden- 

 ed with a purchase price in which 

 heavy overhead expenses and pro- 

 motion costs have been included, as 

 the settler's capital usually consists 

 of a big family and his bare hands. 



Survey Comes First. 

 The first step tow^ard the utiliza- 

 tion of a tract of logged-off land 

 seems naturally to be a survey and 

 then its sub-division into plots so 

 arranged that each settler will have 

 access, if possible, to any stream 

 flowing through the area and to the 

 roads, w^hich have been located prior 

 to the purchase by the settler. 



REPLANTING SAND DUNES 



The famous Sandbanks in Prince 

 Edward county may be converted 

 into a big reforestation plot. The 

 drifting sand has covered several hun- 

 dred acres of farm lands adjoining, 

 rendering the property useless. A 

 deputation w^aited upon Hon. G. H. 

 Ferguson, Minister of Lands, Forests 

 and Mines, Toronto, with the recjuest 

 that the Ontario government estab- 

 lish a reforestation scheme upon this 

 barren waste. The Minister seemed 

 favorably impressed with the sugges- 

 tion and promised consideration. 

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I SERMONS IN TREES 



1 Exchange 



I A good colored man once said 

 I in a class meeting — "Bredren, 

 I when I was a boy I took a hatch- 

 f et and went into de woods. 

 When I found a tree dat was 

 straight, big, and solid, I didn't 

 touch dat tree; but when I found 

 one leaning a little, and hollow 

 inside, I soon had him down. 

 So, when dem debils gets after 

 Christians he don't touch dem 

 dat's straight and true, but dem 

 dat lean a little and are hollow 

 inside." 



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