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are five or six thousand, cover about 

 one-sixth of the country, but these 

 lakes, rivers, and waterways all take 

 their share in the wood trade. In the 

 autumn the trees are felled and left for 

 the first fall of snow. The timber is 

 conveyed to the nearest waterway, 

 where it is stamped with the owner's 

 registered mark and rolled upon the 

 ice of lake or river to await the natural 

 transport of spring. On they voyage, 

 these soldiers of the forest, for hun- 

 dreds of miles to the coast, till finally, 

 arriving at such an enormous wood ex- 

 port station as Kotka. 



Forest Fires and Fire Prevention. 



(Kitchener, Ont., Record.) 

 That Canada's losses through forest 

 fires in 1916 total $9,000,000 is a state- 

 ment which has been repeatedly made 

 in the public prints. It seems incred- 

 ible, yet when it is recalled that 1,200 

 square miles of timbered land in North- 

 ern Ontario was burned over last sum- 

 mer, t?he figure at which the losses is 

 placed may not be a whit too high. 



Government and people, when reports 

 of the losses of life and resources in the 

 Northern Ontario conflagration of 1916 

 came in, exclaimed, "Oh! Dear! Dear!" 

 And afterwards apparently treated the 

 matter as a visitation of Providence. 

 Not so, however, the Canadian Forestry 

 Association of Canada. It looked for 

 causes and discovered that forest fires 

 generally are preventable to a large ex- 

 tent. It recommends a reorganization 

 of the fire-ranging organization, with 

 particular attention to the timber lands 

 of the Crown and the enactment of 

 legislation which would prevent set- 

 tlers starting brush or clearing fires 

 without the authority and the personal 

 supervision of government officials. 



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