Tlu Poj)lar Tree, Friend or Foe 





 



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The Poplar Tree 

 Friend or Foe ? 





 



CAXADIAX TREK SEEDS FOIi 



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Editor CflHrtrfuin Forestrii Juiinuil: 



III your issue of April, 101"), \o. 4, you 

 call atti'iition to tho jiuplar tree ami speak 

 of it as a "farmer's tree." 



My cxin'rijMK e with jio|)lar trees has been 

 that they are the worst nieniy of the 

 farmer. 



An experience which 1 have hail with 

 them has made a lasting iniiiression. At 

 my jilaee at Lake George, seventeen years 

 ago I jdanted several trees like maple and 

 elm about the place. Some of these trees 

 are now eight or ten inches in <liameter and 

 have a magnificent sprea<l, while others have 

 practically made no progress during all this 

 time. 



Around the shore of the lake I have a 

 grove of different kinds of trees, and in 

 one section there were a large nuiul)er of 

 l>oplars. My attention was called fiually to 

 the fait that as the distance was removed 

 from these poplar trees the trees which had 

 been set out on the j)lace were more luxur- 

 iant in their growth; in fact, the trees that 

 had been set out nearest to the poplar trees 

 had not grown at all, while as the distance 

 was increased the trees imi>roved, ana the 

 -ones that were the furthest removed from 

 the poplars were the largest in growth. 



Two years ago I decided to take out all 

 of these i)Oi)lar trees, ami the result has 

 been that tne planted trees in their imme- 

 diate neighborhood have grown more m the 

 jiast two years than in the entire fifteen 

 years previously. 



This indicates very strongly to me that 

 the jioplar tree is a great robber of the 

 soil, and, if my experience is borne out by 

 'Others, instead of being the "farmers 

 friend," the poplar is one of his worst 

 enemies. 



Yours very truly, 



K. C. TEFFT, 

 President, The Sandi/ Hill Iron and Brass 

 Works, Hudson Falls, X.Y. 



The position of City Forester is now 

 •oCFering a new field for men with a tech- 

 nical training in forestry. Fitchburg, Mass., 

 is one of the latest towns to secure an offi- 

 •cial of this sort. 



In this time of war many important move- 

 ments which would attract attention at other 

 times are going on almost unnoticed. One 

 of these is the etVort of educationists, gov- 

 ernment officials ami missionary organiza- 

 tions to get the jioor people of China back 

 on to the land. This work is proceeding 

 along dillVrent lines. As in other countries 

 much of the soil of China is unsuited to 

 any other crop than trees, and part of the 

 effort is to get reforestation started. Last 

 month the ('aiuid\iin F^orestri/ Journal had 

 an appeal through Or. C. C. James for tree 

 seeils from one of the professors of the 

 Agricultural Department of the I'niversity 

 of I'eking. This month we have to chron- 

 icle the receipt of a letter by Mr. K. H. 

 Campbell, Uominion Director of Forestry, 

 Ottawa, from Mr. J. H. Crocker, one of 

 the Secretaries of the ^'oung Men's rhris- 

 tian Association at Shanghai, China, thank- 

 ing him for the gift of seeds of Canadian 

 trees whi(h have been distributed in this 

 effort. Mr. Crocker states that a young 

 Chinese student a graduate of an United 

 States forestry school, is on their staff to 

 take charge of this forestrj' propaganda, 

 and he is sure that before long they will 

 be getting results. 



The whole world is awakening to the 

 folly of denudation and to the need of re- 

 forestation, and (,'anaiia, with her great 

 natural advantages and the advantage of 

 the experience of all these older countries, 

 must not lag behind. 



B. (' 



HOOD SAMPLES FOli BRITISH 

 AND FOREIGN MARKETS. 



The cauijiaign directed l)y the Hon. W. 

 K. Ross, Minister of Lands foi- Hritish 

 Cohnnlda, in order to eilucate the consumer 

 in distant markets <oncerning the (pialities 

 and adaptability of Hritish Cohunbia woods, 

 has been advanced another steji, the first 

 consigiuiient of the permanent exhibits to 

 be stationeil at important traile centres 

 throughout the world, having been already 

 dispatched. 



The eight sets already forwarddl will l.e 

 on view at five trade centres in the Inited 

 Kingdom, namely London. Birmingham. 

 Manchester, Bristol and Glasgow, also at 

 I'aris, Shanghai and Vokohama, in tne care 

 of the respective ("anadian Trade Commis- 

 sioners, and cannot fail to attract the at- 

 teiition of imjiorters. 



There will shortly be sent out the ba.ince 

 of the exhibits, sixteen in number, destined 

 for sixteen points in Australia, Xew Zea- 

 land. South Africa, the East and West 



Coasts of 

 Canada. 



South America and Ea.stern 



