CIRCULATION. MAY, 4.500 COPIES. 



Canaaian forcstrp Journal 



Vol. XII. May, 1916. No. 5. 



(Printed at Kingston, Ont.) 



Forests and the Prairie Provinces 



The Imperative Problem of the Future Wood Supply of Canada 



West Told From a New Angle. 



[Reproduction of a brochure written by the Secretary of the Canadian Forestry 

 Association and presented to the members of Western Boards of Trade, etc.] 



To the People of Western Canada : 



This brochure talks of forests. Forests and the things they provide 

 are as much the fotmdation of prosperity in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and 

 Alberta as in Ontario. Quebec and New Brunswick. Most of us have 

 thought that the prairie provinces had little to do with forests, but that is 

 mostly because forests do not advertise. 



You know your own town ! 



The buildings are made of wood. The trimmings and floors are wood. 

 You kindle your morning fire with wood, you stand before a wooden dres- 

 ser, open a wooden door, seat yourself on a wooden chair at a wooden 

 table, read a newspaper made of spruce, balsam, poplar, scanning despatches 

 that leaped across thousands of wooden poles, spend five minutes in the 

 garden with a wood-handled rake, walk along a tree-shaded avenue to 

 catch a half-wooden street car. enter an office lined and furnished with 

 wood, take your place at a wooden desk and prepare to write with a 

 wooden pen. 



And yet you sometmes wonder what interest the Western town has in 

 its native zvood crop. 



The Fanner and His Wooden Farm. 



You are obliged to make a journey. The railway coaches are mostly 

 wood, and run over wooden ties, past stations constructed mainly of tim- 

 ber. You leave the train, cross a wooden platform, and drive in a wooden 

 democrat to a farmer's wooden home. Two hundred acres he has hemmed 

 in with wooden fence posts procured at little expense from nearby wood- 

 lands. Great wooden barns that in due season will receive the harvested 

 wheat ! In the fields the wood-and-steel binders whip merrily into the 

 standing grain. On the next concession a wooden threshing outfit is 

 clattering northward. Secure from the weather, three plows, a hay rake 

 or two, a grain wagon, a buggy and a spare wagon tongue are crowded 



