Canadian Forestrij Journal, October, 1917 



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farm and the best means of compari- 

 son is for one to slay on a treeless 

 farm for a short period and then 

 stay on a well treed farm. In the 

 case of the former, one feels that 

 home is just a figure of speech and 

 in time becomes surfeited with the 

 feeling of being too much outdoors 

 and among the elements. There is a 

 good choice of trees for the purpose 

 of establishing a prairie home; the 

 Green Ash, with its slender leaves, 

 the Mountain Ash giving a splendid 

 display of little red berries in the fall 

 among its rose-like leaves, the Birch 

 with white bark standing out in bold 

 relief from the general environment 

 of green. The Asiatic Maple is an- 

 other tree of great color effect, as 

 the leaves turn from green in the 

 summer to crimson in the fall. These, 

 with a background of evergreens, 

 form a picture of extreme beauty in 

 the fall. Flowering shrubs such as 

 Lilac and Honeysuckle are an annual 

 source of pleasure to their owners 

 and others who are favored by their 

 sphere of influence. Mention must 

 be made of the Caragana, a favorite 



hardy hedge maker. It forms a 

 tight hedge, is a good growe,r and 

 bears a pretty yellow bloom. In 

 evergreens, the Spruce and Scotch 

 Fir form an all year green shelter 

 and a most efficient windbreak. 



A plantation of Cottonwoods be- 

 comes a fuel yard in the making and 

 the rapid growth of these trees makes 

 them a worth-while proposition to 

 the average farmer. 



Trees rnay be acquired by various 

 means, viz., from the woods, pur- 

 chased from nurseries, and grown 

 from seed. It is better to thoroughly 

 thresh out the question of planting 

 before actually putting it into prac- 

 tice. A pencil drawing of the pro- 

 posed layout is a good initial step 

 and is easily altered to accommodate 

 the desires of second thoughts that 

 may crop in, whereas, should the 

 planting be accomplished before thor- 

 ough consideration has had full scope, 

 any alteration involving the labor of 

 transplanting may prove fatal both 

 to the trees and the ambition of the 

 planter. 



Notes on the Western Fires 



Forest fires in the Coast district 

 have been numerous owing to the 

 long spell of extremely dry weather, 

 but so far the International Timber 

 Co., Ltd., has been the only heavy 

 loser on the Coast, says the Western 

 Lumberman of Vancouver. A ser- 

 ious fire broke out August 3 in the 

 company's limits at Campbell River, 

 Vancouver Island, destroying about 

 7,000,000 feet of timber cut at Camp 

 Three, and seriously damaging a lot 

 of valuable logging equipment, in- 

 cluding an overhead system and five 

 donkeys. The loss will run into big 

 figures, but M. D. Rector, general 

 manager, is not yet in a position to 

 name the amount. 



In Vancouver district, the Taylor 

 & Naysmith Lumber Company, oper- 

 ating a sawmill and logging camp 

 north of Burnaby Lake, met with 



misfortune on Sunday, August 5, 

 when a fire which started in old slash- 

 ings and down timber in the vicinity 

 of their logging operations on Snake 

 Hill, a couple of miles from the mill, 

 got beyond the control of the men, 

 destroyed several bunkhouses and 

 other camp buildings, and damaged 

 some of the equipment. The men 

 managed to remove the two donkey 

 engines before much injury had been 

 done them. 



LIVES AND PROPERTY 



In the Kootenay district, the most 

 disastrous fire was near Fernie, where 

 the Elk Lumber Co. lost a camp out- 

 fit complete, and ten of the men lost 

 their lives. The camp was located 

 in a blind valley, and when the fire 

 swept up the men had to flee over 

 the hills. Previous to that the lum- 



