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anticipate that the district representatives 

 will aid very much in the solution of this 

 problem as in many others. 



At the Forest Station, in Norfolk County, 

 our nurseries are being improved and better 

 organized, and we wiU be able to meet the 

 demand for forest nursery stock on a large 

 scale in the future. 



Mr. F. S. Newman, B.Sc.F., has been ap- 

 pointed assistant to the Forestry Branch, 

 and will have direct charge of this work. 



At the present time there are about one 

 million plants in our nurseries and about 

 500,000 of these are ready for distribution 

 this coming season. 



In last year 's planting, at this station, 

 we used alaout 200,000 plants. The older 



plantations at this station are proving very 

 satisfactory and encouraging. In addition 

 to the experimental value of these planta- 

 tions, I feel that there is a local influence 

 which is quite noticeable. Our plantations 

 on the blow sands, which at first were more 

 or less ridiculed, have proven successful, and 

 now a number of people throughout the 

 country are taking advantage of the dis- 

 tribution of trees and making plantations 

 upon similar situations. 



I believe that with the solution of the 

 labour problem and the general improvement 

 which is coming throughout older Ontario, 

 there will be a healthier interest taken in 

 the reclamation and reforesting of poorer 

 soils of the farm. 



Group of B. C. District Foresters at Victoria, B.C. 



B.C. Foresters' Conference. 



'We have benefited wonderfully by this 

 Conference, and I am sorry you could not 

 be present,' writes Chief Forester H. R. 

 MacMillan in reference to the Conference 

 of District Foresters and Forest Assistants 

 held at Victoria, B.C., recently. The Con- 

 ference was a gathering of all the field men 



of the British Columbia Forest Service to 

 discuss problems arising in the work and the 

 results of this meeting were very satisfac- 

 tory. The picture shows the men of the B, 

 C. Forest Service gathered in front of the 

 Forest Department Office. Our eastern read- 

 ers will recognize many of those in the 

 group. Chief Forester MacMillan is in the 

 centre, wearing a light-colored overcoat. 



PROMOTION ON MERIT. 



There is only one way to have a high 

 standard of efficiency in the public ser- 

 vice and that is by appointment made pure- 

 ly on merit, and for tenure of good be- 

 havior with a system of promotion on 

 merit. When that is the rule all over Can- 

 ada it will be a bjenefit to the whole Do- 

 minion. . .Qwe&ec Chronicle. 



The Argentine Touring Club has decided 

 to award a special gold medal annually to 

 the landowner in the Province of Buenos 

 Aires who plants the most trees at the 

 sides of the public highways. The trees 

 may be fruit or forestal, and instructions 

 and advice concerning planting m^ay be 

 had from the Touring Club. 



