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Canadian Forestry Journal, March, jpi6. 



EVINRUDE 



DETACHABLE ROWBOAT AND CANOE MOTOR 



A practical, powerful, reliable, two-cycle gasoline 

 motor that can be attached to any row-boat in less 

 than a minute; may also be attached to canoes, duck 

 boats and all manner of small craft. 



Very efficient for towing heavy loads. 



All motors are equipped with reversible, high ten- 

 sion magneto and Maxim Silencer. 



Drive a rowboat up to 8 miles and a canoe up to 

 12 miles an hour. 



Our 1916 models embrace all the unequalled fea- 

 tures of the 1915 machines, plus the new and ex- 

 clusive Evinrude Automatic Reverse which adds 100 

 per cent, flexibility and enables Evinrude equipped 

 craft to manoeuvre in a marvelous fashion. 

 Nearly 40,000 in use. 

 Write for catalogue and prices to 



MELGHIOR, ARMSTRONG & DESSAU 



116-A, BROAD STREET. NEW YORK. 



2 H. P. and SJ^ H. P. 



Deciduous and Evergreen Forests 



Those who lament the disappear- 

 ance of the primeval forests of the 

 older parts of Ontario probably 

 have specially in mind the deciduous 

 trees, which shed their leaves in 

 autumn and renew them in spring. 

 These were nearly everywhere inter- 

 spersed more or less thickly with 

 evergreens, such as the pines, 

 spruces, balsams, and hemlocks, and 

 in many localities the evergreens 

 predominated. Pines and hemlocks 

 were cut up into lumber in local 

 sawmills, while the deciduous trees 

 were got rid of by the aid of fire. 

 The Canadian white pine, economi- 

 cally the most valuable lumber- 

 producing tree in the world, has be- 

 come practically extinct in the older 

 settlements, and is becoming very 

 scarce in the Laurentian region 

 that was once its natural home. 



The removal of the white pine, 

 either by the lumberman or by fire, 

 leaves room for an extensive and 

 rapid growth of young deciduous 

 trees that are of no great economic 

 value ; birches, poplars, basswoods, 

 maples, and others. Unless these 

 spaces are reseeded with white pine, 

 there will be no new valuable crop 

 of timber, and the denuded spaces 

 will remain what they are now : the 

 "waste lands" of the Crown domain. 



In this connection arises the ques- 

 tion of utilizing these same waste 

 lands for ranching purposes. As- 

 suming that the ranching of beef 

 cattle would be a good use to put 

 such lands to, then it is worth while 

 to recall to mind that while cattle 

 are fond of browsing on the leaves 

 and twigs of the young deciduous 

 trees, thev have no inclination to 



