CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 115 



Japan, which has a definite forest policy, has during the last 25 years 

 reforested 200,000 acres at an average cost of a little less than $9.00 per 

 acre. 



In the United States activity in reforesting is worthy of notice. Several 

 states are buying back waste lands for forestry purposes. 



The State of New York has for several years been buying back waste 

 lands and replanting. In 1908, $30,000.00 was available for nursery work 

 and replanting. In this work the low cost of $6.00 per acre for plants and 

 planting is said to have been attained. 



The State of Wisconsin has adopted a definite forest policy, and is 

 segregating its non-agricultural lands at the headwaters of the Wisconsin 

 River. During 1908, 33,880 acres of cut over forest lands were purchased 

 at a cost of $98,590.00. 



As a testimony of a private corporation's faith in reforesting a good 

 example may be cited in the operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad. This 

 corporation ;em.ploys trained foresters and has adopted a definite forest 

 policy in regard to its waste lands. 



In 1907, the total number of trees set out was 315,000. In 1903 about 

 448,000 seedlings were planted. The latter plantations were made at a 

 cost of $12.00 per acre, using purchased plants. By the use of plants from 

 their own nurseries, which have been established, it is expected to lower 

 the cost to about $8.00 per acre. 



This problem is not wholly in the experimental stage and we havs 

 abundant proof of the practicability of reforestation. 



The policy of segregating and placing under forest management, the 

 large bodies of waste land, in the southern part of the Province, is safe from 

 a purely financial consideration. There are, however, other economic rea- 

 sons for adopting this policy. 



The story of agricultural settlement, in these regions, with its struggles 

 to wrest a living from the soil, and the final abandonment of farms, would 

 call forth facts which alone would prove a strong argument in favour of 

 removing people from such conditions. 



These districts under attempted agricultural management, cannot pro- 

 perly support social organizations such as schools and churches. The state 

 cannot afford to allow citizens to live and develop under the enforced con- 

 ditions existing in many of these waste areas. 



It is very important that the private land owner be urged and educated 

 to feel the necessity of protecting existing woodlands, and replanting waste 

 areas. This branch of work can be greatly assisted by demonstrating for- 

 estry methods on these larger areas. The influence which this policy must 

 eventually exert may be realized by noticing the representative way in 

 which these proposed forest reserves are situated throughout southern 



