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Canadian Forestry .Journal, October, 191'. 



How a 'protection belt' of trees pays good profit to the fruit grower. Orchards heavy with 

 fruit are often protected so that loss from windfalls and broken branches is greatly lessened. 



The above picture shows the progress made on the pine and spruce plantations on the sand 

 lands near Lachute. The work has been in charge of Mr. G. C. Piche, Chief of the Forest Service, 

 <.)uebec and is showing up well. The trees were transplanted from the nursery beds in 1913. 



