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to the farmers for cattle bedding- for an average of $4.83 per acre, sometimes 

 as high as $19.43 per acre, the farmer buying it "on the stump," so to speak, , 

 and removing it himself. Then the pine forest is underplanted with oak, 

 Q. rubia being used where the soil is poor, and Q. pedunculata where the 

 soil is o-ood. The underplanting has a magical effect on the thriftiness and 

 rate of height growth of the Scotch pine. 



The stands of Scotch pine in the Maasbosch are exactly similar in 

 appearance to the lodgepole in the plateau south of the Chilcotin River. 

 (What our lodgepole needs undoubtedly is thinning and underplanting.) 



The Scotspine is sold on the stump for $0.15 per cubic foot on the 

 volume estimated by the forester while the tree is standing, a volume 

 which includes trunk, limbs and leaves no stump. As soon as the timber 

 is cut a new plantation of Scotspine and oak or elm is started. . 



Damage to Shade Trees 



A case of much interest to the 

 property owners of Ontario was re- 

 centlv decided at Omemee, Ont., re- 

 lating to the rights of property own- 

 ers in the trees on the highway ad- 

 joining their premises. The tree in 

 question was in front of the resi- 

 dence of Mrs. Edward, mother of 

 Mr. Tas. Edward, divisional freight 

 agent of the G. T. R. at Ottawa. A 

 neighbor complained to the town 

 council that the tree had grown so 

 large as to injure the draught of his 

 chimnev. The council without in- 

 vestigation ordered one of its em- 

 ployees to trim the tree. Mrs. Ed- 

 ward sued the municipality for dam- 

 ages. The case was heard by Judge 

 McMillan who awarded the plaintiff 

 $15 and costs, by the terms of the 

 Municipal Act, Section 487. The 

 judge contended that ten days' no- 

 tice should have been given to the 

 plaintiff. 



Another instructive case came be- 

 fore the Ottawa Police Magistrate 

 recently. A teamster damaged a 

 city shade tree by wilfully backing 

 his wagon against it. It was one of 

 the first cases of the sort to be heard 

 in Ottawa. The magistrate decided 

 that an example should be made and 

 he sentenced the driver to pay a fine 

 of $5 and $2 costs or one week in 

 jail. 



These decisions are interesting to 

 those who are suff'ering from dam- 

 age done to trees by corporation 

 employees, linemen and others. 



Stringent A dministration 



It is interesting to study the 

 lengths to which Governments in 

 European countries go in the way of 

 interferring with property rights of 

 the individual for the benefit of the 

 community. In Denmark, for in- 

 instance, the purchase of any forest 

 area, however small, by no means 

 carries the right to administer it in 

 accordance with the plans and de- 

 sires of the new owner. Until he 

 has been the registered owner of 

 such an area for ten consecutive 

 years, he is not permitted to cut 

 down a tree without authority of the 

 Minister of the Interior. The other 

 day, an owner was fined a consider- 

 able amount for having done so in 

 ignorance of the law on the subject. 

 We have much to learn in this West 

 of ours as to what price the individ- 

 ual must pay to promote "the 

 greatest good for the greatest num- 

 ber." And this, we presume, is the 

 object of all administration." — 

 "Farm and Ranch Review" of Cal- 

 gary. 



From a Paper Manufacturer 



Secretary Canadian Forestry Assoc. 

 "I enclose $10 to help along 

 the publication of some of your work 

 in French." 



