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neither game uor fish. Both subjects in- 

 terest the friends of conservation from the 

 fact that both apples and fish, in their 

 sale and transportation, require consider- 

 able quantities of timber for the manu- 

 facture of barrels and boxes. We are be- 

 ginning to see, however we look at it, that 

 our forest wealth jdays a large part of our 

 national life. 



OLD WAYS AND NEW. 



One of our oldest members, Mr. E. J. 

 Drunimond, of Perth, Ont., writes that he 

 recollects, as a boy in Ottawa, when 

 Sparks street was a green common, seeing 

 the men pass with cant hooks and other 

 tools to repair the cribs at the foot of the 

 lo<d\s of the Eideau Canal. In those days 

 timber prices were low and the waste in 

 the woods great. Every Sej^tcmber the 

 people of Bytown (Ottawa) and surround- 

 ing towns suffered from sore eyes from 

 the presence of so many busli fires. Great 

 improvements have been made, but more 

 still remains undone, and Mr. Drummond 

 urges greater activity, with a Dominion 

 minister and department devoted exclu- 

 sivclv to forests. 



DESTRUCTIVE PEACE. 



Forests have been ravished in Europe 

 and towns and villages destroj'ed by men 

 with a deliberate purpose, and the world 

 stands aghast at the wantonness. But in 

 the United States and in Canada the fire 

 of the negligent camper, the indifferent 



locomoti\'e fireman or the careless bush 

 ranger is just as destructive to property 

 as the fire of an enemy,, whose aim it was 

 to work ruin. In time of war the greatest 

 vigilance is maintained. Public property 

 is closely guarded; every bridge, railroad 

 and canal is patrolled in fear that by some 

 remote chance it might be attacked by the 

 enemy. But in peace, we leave our great 

 forest possessions in many cases witliout 

 a corporal 's guard and often without so 

 much as a sentinel. And we are shocked 

 and secretly rail against Providence rather 

 than against ourselves when the inevitable 

 happens. — I'lilp (iiiil I'tipcr Miiiiazinc of 

 Cuiiada. 



LAURENTIDE CO. PLANTING. 



The Laurentide Company, Limited, is 

 enlarging its forest nurseries in order to 

 provide for the systematic planting, on 

 an increased scale, of considerable areas 

 of nonagricultnral, cutover lands in the 

 watershed of the St. Maurice Eiver. This 

 work is being accomplished by the com- 

 pany's forestry division, which has just 

 finished a survey and map of the com- 

 jjany's limits, comprising 2, .3.50 square 

 jniles of land, mostly timbered. The map 

 shows all drainage, roads, portages and 

 trails, lookout stations, telephone lines, and 

 timber conditions. The company is also 

 importing reindeer from Dr. Grenf ell's 

 herd in Newfoundland to take the place 

 of sled dogs, which are very troublesome 

 to keep in the summer and not very effi- 

 cient in the winter. This experiment is 

 being watclied with mucli interest. — Paper. 









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