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Canadian Forestry Journal, September, 1915- 



This is a "homestead" in Boyer Township. According to the fake 

 settler's patent, he is to sow this in cereals or garden truck. As a 

 matter of fact he has no intention whatever of farming. His sole 

 object is to strip the land of timber and move on On the patch 

 shown in the photograph he has fairly well succeeded. 



steaders who are allowed under the tion well nigh impossible Having 

 law to pre-empt lots one mile deep no permanent mterest m the locality 

 without payment of a penny. The he uses fire for his own convenience 



settler immediately commences to 

 cut his timber and deliver it at the 

 sawmill. Knowing full well that 

 trees are the only crop the 'home- 

 stead' will produce, he proceeds to 

 'skin' the property, observing no 



diameter limit, such as applies to the ^ . 



lumberman, and leaves it bare of 'homestead provide the settler and 

 growth and makes natural reproduc- his friend the sawmill owner with 



and if it escapes into neighboring 

 forest, the fact gives him no worry. 

 He is there for a day and some one 

 else can worry about to-morrow. 



Good Profits Made. 

 These 'skinning' operations on the 



A bleak and barren hillside from which the settler has cut the 

 timber clean, leaving only a useless blot of gravel ridges and boulders. 

 There is little pretence of farming operations. 



