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Canadian Forestry Journal, June, icjid. 



elders. Colored instructive pamph- 

 lets were issued in French and Eng- 

 lish to the extent of about thirty- 

 five thousand. Twenty-five thous- 

 and copies of "A Matter of Opin- 

 ion," a propagandist novelty of 24 

 pages, and fifteen thousand copies 

 of "Your Enemv's Photograph" in 

 two languages, have gone through 

 the country. The banks, railways, 

 forest departments and private corp- 

 orations undertake to give all these 



issues verv careful distribution to 



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settlers, railwaymen, riverdrivers, 

 campers, etc., etc.. from coast to 

 coast. The association also main- 

 tains "The Canadian Forestry Jour- 

 nal." which has been found of mark- 

 ed value educationally. The forego- 

 ing are some of the more tangible 

 concerns to which the attention and 

 revenues of the association are di- 

 rected. • 



It will be noted that In no depart- 

 ment of its work is the association 

 taking up cudgels for anything but 

 the most practical and proved meth- 

 ods of forest preservation through 

 the sure channel of education. 

 (Article reproduced trom "Canada 

 Lumberman") 



How to Prune Your Trees 



Always use a pole saw and pole 

 shears on the tips of long branches, 

 and use the pole hook in removing 

 dead branches of the ailanthus and 

 other brittle trees where it would 

 be too dangerous to reach them 

 otherwise. 



Do not "head back" or cut off the 

 top of a tree except where the tree 

 is old and failing, and then under 

 special instructions. 



Be as sparing and as judicious in 

 pruning as possible, and do not 

 raise the branches so hikh as to make 

 the tree look like a telegraph pole. 



Commerce pruning the tree from 

 the top and finish at the bottom. 



Make every cut as close and paral- 

 lel to the trunk as possible. 



To make the cut perfectly smooth 

 the saw must be well set and sharp. 



Leave no stubs, dead and dying 

 wood, or fungus-covered branches 

 behind you. 



Do not fail to cover every wound 

 with coal tar. not allowing it need- 

 .lessly to run down the trunk. 



D(j not remove sevieral large 

 branches on one tree- at a time. 

 They must be removed gradually, 

 the work extending over several 

 seasons. 



The Forests of Paradise 



::: The followiug quaint expression by one of his friends of the views 



:|i of the future felt to l)e those of ^l. Desjobert. the old and respected 



Ij: forester of the forest of Troncais, who has recently died in Franc, will 



::! find an echo in the hearts of other foresters for' what it anticipates 



::: both iu the presence and in the absence of some of the things that go 



::: to make up the forester's life in this world. 



Ijj "A fervent and consecrated Christian. Desjobert was not one of 



::: tlifise who scc death approach with terror. I have always thought 



III that in the face of eternity he imagined Paradise like a great forest of 



ill Troncais. more magnificent certainly, more spacious, an ideal forest 



jji where the wind of politics does not blow and which is lighted by a 



iji great sun of justice.' 



