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And while the individual may well 

 take to heart the demand for more 

 production the urgency is as great 

 on those charged with the adminis- 

 tration of the forests to organize on 

 such a basis of permanent policy 

 that the production from them may 

 be permanent and uninterrupted by 

 loss from fire ot other causes. It is 

 becoming increasingly clear that in 

 all matters that affect the future of 

 this or any other country there must 

 be a looking forward and a present 

 preparation for the needs of the fu- 

 ture; Colonization should be so di- 

 rected as to become permanent in- 

 stead of shifting, agriculture should 

 not result in impoverished land and 

 its abandonment, the forest should 

 be permanently producing, not 

 evanescent. While the government 

 urges on the individual the duty of 

 greater production it should bend its 

 own efforts in the same direction on 

 the public domain. 



Using the Waste Lands. 

 Production may be increased by 

 planting a forest where none now 

 exists, and it is in the doing of such 

 work that we may realize how for- 

 tunate we are in that nature has 

 done so much of the reproducing of 

 the forest for us without our effort. 

 By the cheapest methods that will 

 have any adequate success reforesta- 

 tion on denuded land may be carried 

 out at S7.00 to $12.00 per acre, and 

 the returns at this rate are well 

 worth while. Belgium, before the 

 war, was planting waste land at a 

 cost of $20.00 per acre and consider- 

 ed the investment a profitable one. 

 There are unfortunately many miles 

 of waste land in Canada where re- 

 planting will be required. Such 

 work has been well begun by a few 

 private owners and the success at- 

 tending the efforts of some of these, 



and also of the governments of On- 

 tario and Quebec have been already 

 described in the Forestry Journal. 

 The Dominion Government has as- 

 sisted largely in the planting of 

 trees on farms in the prairies and is 

 now using the nursery developed for 

 this purpose to supply stock for a 

 vigorous policy of reforestation on 

 denuded public lands which is being 

 inaugurated. 



Management Needed. 



Production can be increased by 

 proper forest management. It is 

 not realized what an increase in 

 production may be made by proper 

 management of a forest but the ex- 

 amples from European practice are 

 abundant of forests where the quan- 

 tity and value of the production have 

 been steadily increased through a 

 series of years without a diminution 

 and with even an increase in the 

 stand itself. As an instance is the 

 small forest of Couvet in Switzer- 

 land comprising 345 acres. It was 

 put under technical management in 

 1883 with the result that in 1913 the 

 annual cut had increased from 42.36 

 cubic feet per acre to 128.49, or three 

 times the quantity ; that the quanti- 

 ty of large timber in the cut had in- 

 creased from 18% to 30%, and that 

 the timber standing on the ground 

 had slightly increased in quantity. 

 That similar results are obtained 

 over large areas and districts in 

 Europe accentuates the possibilities. 

 The low average production in Can- 

 ada per acre as a result of the con- 

 dition of the greater part of the 

 forests shows that there is a large 

 field for increasing production in 

 this natural product. Outside of a 

 few tentative efforts on small tracts 

 no effort has been made in Canada 

 to increase production by this 

 mean« but the foresters of the Do- 



By the cheapest methods that will have any adequate success, 

 reforestation on denuded land may be carried out at $7.00 to $12,00 

 per acre and the returns at this rate are well worth while. Bel- 

 gium before the war was planting waste lands at $20.00 an acre 

 and considered the investment a profitable one. 



