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Canadian Forestry Journal, March, ipi6. 



JVisJom in Replanting 



(Toronto News) 

 Because grandfather believed that 

 the forest was infinite, we act as if 

 it were. Yet the casual and occa- 

 sional use of our eyes would prove 

 the contrary. Forests have almost 

 disappeared in the settled portions 

 of Ontario. Wasteful methods of 

 lumbering are clearing them away 

 with appalling rapidity in the unset- 

 tled areas. The Laurentide Com- 

 pany, at Grand Mere, Quebec, per- 

 mitted itself to be told by one of its 

 staff that it was in a fair way to 

 destroy its supply of raw material. 

 Reforesting was undertaken in 1907, 

 under the direction of Mr. Ellwood 

 Wilson, and the results of that poli- 



cy are explained in the current num- 

 ber of The Canadian Forestry Jour- 

 nal. Five thousand white, Scotch 

 and jack pines were planted in May, 

 1908, on the waste lands of the St. 

 Maurice Valley. These have reach- 

 ed an average height of five feet, 

 eight feet and twelve feet respective- 

 ly. Additional plantings were made 

 every spring, and now a tree nursery 

 has been established with capacity 

 for a million trees per annum. It is 

 the hope of the Company to plant 

 one tree for every one cut down and 

 ground into pulp. This will make 

 the timber limits near the mills per- 

 petual, keep the cost of transporta- 

 tion low and avoid the difficulty of 

 having an expensive plant stranded 

 in a bald country-side. 



A Hint to School Teachers! 



How a study of wood-using in- 

 <iustries may be linked up with the 

 everyday programme of the public 

 school was well exemplified recent- 

 ly in Fort William! The Secretary 

 of the Canadian Forestry Associa- 

 tion delivered a lecture to several 

 hundreds of children and teachers at 

 an afternoon meeting in the Audi- 

 torium. 



On the following day, two of the 

 teachers took the trouble to co-op- 

 erate with the lecturer in a way that 

 may be duplicated in almost any 

 town having a saw mill or boat or 

 furniture factory or other plant us- 

 ing wood and can be done, too, with- 

 out a lecturer's help. The Fort 

 William Times-Journal mentions 

 the undertaking in this way : 



"As a result of the address by 

 Robson Black, on forest protection 

 and forestry, G. H. Mathews re- 

 ceived a visit yesterday at his wood- 

 working factory from two of the 

 teachers of the Fort William public 

 school staff with their classes who 

 were escorted around the works and 



given 



a lot of interesting informa- 

 tion by Mr. Matthews regarding the 

 products of the forests and the use 

 to which different woods were put 

 and the possibility of making use of 

 the waste material round a mill. 

 The Mathews plant may from this 

 time forth be made into an auxiliary 

 school room if other teachers follow 



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