102 EUEAL LIFE IN CANADA 



organization whose formative processes themselves shall 

 prove to be at once the needed ethical disciplines which 

 shall bring the new age into touch with God through 

 Christ and the social opportunities for the satisfaction 

 of aspirations now unrealized. 



All lands must be put to their best use. In Edwards- 

 burg we have several thousands of acres of sand-bar- 

 rows. Once they had mould enough to yield large 

 crops of corn, rye and potatoes. Now they afford 

 scanty pasture. So soon as the mould is once broken 

 through they become drifting sand. There are already 

 many hundreds of small areas where the sand drifts 

 in wavelets with every wind. It is beautiful, but with 

 a beauty which is costly and is unappreciated. The 

 fertile intervales between the sand-barrows are threat- 

 ened. Herein lies a real community danger. 



For years past I have urged, from every available 

 platform, the instant duty of reafforesting every acre 

 where drift may yet occur. Last year I was invited by 

 a farmer in the neighboring township of Augusta to' 

 visit his farm and see a plantation of four thousand 

 thrifty young pine trees from one to four years old, 

 growing where drifting sand had been. The Govern- 

 ment of Ontario had supplied the seedlings free of 

 charge. It is the beginning of much that is yet to be. 

 Forestry, silviculture, shall yet rank with agriculture. 

 Its importance as an occupation, to say nothing of its 

 importance in conserving stream flow, rainfall, fertility, 

 and climate, or in supplying the world's timber needs, 

 is not realized. " For example, in our Province of 

 British Columbia the timbered land will have 10,000 

 to 40,000 feet of timber to the acre, say on an average 

 25,000 feet, which would furnish to our transportation 



