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Canadian Forestry Journal, December, igi6 



i( uu;ici> Grand Trunk Railway.) 

 LADY EVELYN FALLS, TEMAGAMI, ONT. 



The Partnership of Farm and Forest 



The Old and the New View Points of the Relationship 

 of Timber Crops to Agriculture 



By Rohson Black. 

 {Article runs concurrently in "The Farmer's Advocate.") 



The Farm and the Forest were born 

 twins, with equal rights in the great 

 Canadian Estate, and not the slightest 

 reason or desire to live in disagree- 

 ment. What farmer begrudges the 

 service rendered by the silver and coal 

 and nickel mines, or the fisheries on 

 either seaboard? This is indeed a 

 land of many businesses, in which any 

 developer of a natural source of wealth, 

 be it the land, the mines, the fisheries, 

 the forests, is playing benefactor to his 

 generation. We are poor stewards, in- 

 deed, if we cannot extract from each of 

 the natural gifts of Providence the 

 maximum wealth and service, without 



trying to change agreeable servants 

 into quarrelsome rivals. 



I have emphasized the identity of in- 

 terest as between farm and forest for 

 a good reason. The older days of 

 Canada bred a notion in the minds of 

 men and wdmen that tree life was a 

 cumberer of the ground, that forest 

 fires were a blessing in clearing lands, 

 that the lumberman was a "predatory" 

 creature, appropriating some easy 

 money without much effort, and that 

 Canada owned so much timber that 

 nothing could reduce our super-plenty. 

 The Forest, of course, had no spokes- 

 man. Where agricultural experts by 



