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Canadian Forestry Journal, February^ ipi6. 



iji Saving Timber for Settlers jjl 



In different parts of eastern Can- 

 ada in the early days the country 

 was settled up indiscriminately. To 

 the poor immigrant from crowded 

 Europe all land looked alike, and the 

 result was that much land not fit for 

 agriculture was cleared. After work- 

 ing this land for perhaps two genera- 

 tions it became so poor as to be 

 utterly useless and the family have 

 had to remove to other land. Un- 

 fortunately in the meantime all the 

 good land had been taken up, and, 

 as the people on the poor land were 

 practically driven off through pov- 

 erty, they had no money to buy 

 good farms and, consequently, be- 

 came hewers of wood and drawers 

 of water to the rest of the commun- 

 ity. Sentimentally the scenes in the 

 abandonment of these poor lands 

 were and are very pathetic, while 

 economically the Dominion of Can- 

 ada has lost the labors of two and 

 perhaps three generations wasted in 

 rocky, sandy hill-sides; which labor 

 if expended on good land would 

 have made the workers well-to-do 

 and would have produced abundance 

 of real wealth to feed and clothe the 

 community. 



Worse than the millions of dollars 

 thus wasted has been the waste of 

 thousands of good lives. In eastern 

 Canada the lesson has been taken to 



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