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Canadian Forestry Journal, November, 1917 



Settlers Pap Penalty at Peace River 



Under the heading: "Should Be 

 Sternly Dealt With," the Peace River 

 (Alberta) Standard comments as fol- 

 lows upon the laxity of fire laws and 

 enforcement by the Alberta Govern- 

 ment : — • 



"The dire calamity accompanying 

 the prairie and bush fire which has 

 swept across Peace River country 

 from Dunvegan to Bear Lake and 

 beyond is a sad blow to many settlers 

 striving to get upon their feet. The 

 loss of a winter's supply of hay is 

 bad enough, but on top of this is the 

 destruction of millions of acres of 

 pasture, cutting off any possible 

 chance of even stock feeding until 

 the coming of the winter season. 



The carelessness and negligence of 

 some people in the season of dry grass 

 is positively criminal and such per- 

 sons should be brought to justice. 

 The aggravating part of it is that 

 even should this be done it cannot 

 restore the hundreds of thousands of 

 dollars worth of property which has 

 been destroyed in one fell stroke." 

 Ed. Note. — This annual hazard 

 could be done away with very largely 

 if the Provincial Government would 

 apply a system of granting permits to 

 all settlers wanting to burn slash in 

 the dangerous seasons and provide for 

 enforcement of strict laws to stop 

 carelessness with fire by whomsoever 

 caused. 



Forestry Instruction for Farmers 



In the report of the Ontario Min- 

 ister of Agriculture there is much 

 interesting information, especially 

 concerning the Junior Farmer Asso- 

 ciations and the work of district re- 

 presentatives. One of the former 

 has carried out 46 agricultural experi- 

 ments; one of the latter has written 

 29 articles for the papers of his coun- 

 try. The locality is not given in 

 either case, but neither the list of 

 experiments nor the list of articles 

 has any reference to forestry. This 

 might well be included in the literary 

 work of college and school. For the 



farmer and the embryo-farmer there 

 are a number of forestry problems 

 that are intimately connected with 

 the success of the farm. Perhaps 

 the first problem is to decide whether 

 the wood is to be cleared for plant- 

 ing or maintained as a source of in- 

 come. The answer to this question 

 involves knowledge of the kind of 

 trees, what they are used for, the 

 sizes demanded and the market con- 

 ditions and values. Stands of spruce, 

 pine, poplar, maple and mixed hard 

 woods present different phases of the 

 problem." In mixed stands it will 



