Canadian Forestry Journal, December, igi6 



879 



With the coming of man all these 

 things changed. He saw only those 

 things which he could convert instant- 

 ly into value and carelessly allowed to 

 run away everything that could not be 

 turned into instant use without some 

 extra course of treatment. In the 

 mountain-side a spring of pure water 

 gushed forth and started for its trip to 

 the ocean with as unerring an instinct 

 as that which inspires the tendrill of 

 the pea vine to reach out for a support 

 that it may climb heavenward. 



The rill of water increases and grows 

 as it pursues its way, joined by other 

 httle rills until it becomes a creek, and 

 then winds out to the river. In the 

 clear, cold spring water nature planted 

 our brook trout, which you are all fa- 

 miliar with, if you have ever tried your 

 hand at trying to land him. As the 

 stream grew wider, the water warmed 

 under the sun's rays and the trout re- 

 fused longer to dwell in the waters 

 which enervated him as the Turkish 

 bath enervates its devotees. In these 

 warmer waters nature placed the bass 

 and salmon and the other fish which we 

 class as food fish. You will see here 

 the relation of the forests to the 

 streams. The warming up of the wa- 

 ter in most of our trout streams is due 

 to the deforestation. When the for- 

 ests are cut away the sun's rays have 

 a grand opportunity to make the wa- 

 ters warm. If the banks of the 

 streams were lined with trees, as they 

 should be, this would not be the case. 



On account of the deforestation of 

 our mountains and hillsides, the De- 

 partment of Fisheries has inaugurated 

 the distribution of fish in the yearling 

 stage. The fish in this stage are able 

 to meet the conditions and take care of 

 themselves much better than the small 

 fry which was formerly placed in our 

 streams. When the streams were 

 lined and practically covered with for- 

 ests there was plenty of food for the 

 young fish, but since these have been 

 cut away the conditions have to be met 

 by planting larger and stronger fish. 



There are, according to statistics, 

 over forty-eight thousand industrial 

 plants located along the streams of 

 Pennsylvania which are running their 

 refuse into the streams- If you stop 

 to think of this for a minute you will 

 realize what it means to the streams 

 and forests. If the stream is polluted 

 by industrial waste, it is, naturally, de- 

 pleted of fish and the shrubbery is kill- 

 ed all along the stream, which detracts 

 from the attractiveness of the stream 

 as well as the forest through which it 

 runs. The streams could be cleaned 

 up if the Department wanted to go 

 ahead and stop the wheels of industry, 

 but it is not the desire to do this. It 

 is the desire of the Department to as- 

 sist the manufacturers rather than to 

 harass them, and for this purpose a fil- 

 tering apparatus is being recommended 

 which will stop the polluting of our 

 streams. Much good is being accom- 

 plished along this line. 



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Annual Meeting To Be Held January 1 5th 



The eighteenth annual meeting of 

 the Canadian Forestry Association will 

 be held on Monday. January 15th, 1917, 

 commencing at 10 a.m. Lieut.-Col. J. 

 B. Miller, President, will occupy the 

 chair. 



\\"hile the programme has not been 

 definitely fixed at the time this issue of 

 the Journal goes to press, it is certain 

 that the problem of White Pine Blister 

 Rust now threatening the ruin of Can- 

 ada's white pine possessions will oc- 



cupy a leading part. The meeting will 

 for a time resolve itself into a confer- 

 ence of provincial and federal authori- 

 ties, the object being to determine a 

 course of action by which speedy and 

 thorough suppression of the disease 

 may be attained. No subject has more 

 importance or interest, and while the 

 Forestry Association has been adver- 

 tising the Blister Rust danger for some 

 time past throughout Eastern Canada, 

 in an effort to stir up public opinion as 



