300 The Farm Woodlot 



The Dominion Branch has established a large experi- 

 ment station on the prairies and has done a great deal, 

 by the distribution of free nursery stock, toward the 

 planting up of those sections. This work has been a de- 

 cided success. 



In 1900 the Canadian Forestry Association was formed 

 and has done much toward backing up the government 

 departments. It has been of great value in interesting 

 the people and lumbermen in the work of the Forestry 

 Branch. Since 1905 they have been publishing the Cana- 

 dian Forestry Journal as a means of educating the people. 



In 1907 the University of Toronto established a Faculty 

 of Forestry with the equipment necessary for a complete 

 course of instruction. In 1908 New Brunswick also es- 

 tablished a department of forestry in the University. 

 The Agricultural College at Guelph has for some years 

 been offering a course, in farm forestry. 



As may be seen from the foregoing,, the progress toward 

 the application of forestry in the Canadian forests has 

 been very slow and dotted with many setbacks, but the 

 prospect at present is, on the whole, promising. The 

 political interference in the management of the forests — ■ 

 which has been the great obstacle in the past — is gradu- 

 ally disappearing, and this, together with the rapidly 

 increasing timber supply, is awakening the people and the 

 government to the necessity of a permanent and construc- 

 tive policy. Such a policy adopted and the means fur- 

 nished to put it into practice, it is not too late for Canada 

 to grow her own supply indefinitely. There is plenty of 

 available productive land. 



