ILLUSTRATIONS 



I. Former Pineries Frontispiece 



II. Water Storage Basin Surrounded bt an Old Burn 3 



One op the Numerous Undeveloped Water Powers 3 



III. A Natural Barren 5 



A Man-made Barren 5 



IV. Prospective Farm 11 



Abandoned Farm 11 



V. Abandoned Farm Still used for Pasture 38 



Bank Showing Cross-Section op Sub-Soil 38 



VI. Two Examples op Maple Forests 41 



VII. Mixed Type- — Birch and Pine, on Thin Granitic Soil 47 



Similar Type Which Has Suffered Successive Fires 47 



VIII. Two Types op Reproduction after Fire 51 



IX. Seed Trees Left aiter Cutting ; Reproduction op Pine in Com- 



mercial Quantities 60 



X. Former Pineries : Insufficient Seed Trees Left to Rb-Estabush 



Crop on Commercial Basis 63 



XI. Cutting in Hardwood Forest : Little Danger op Fire 67 



Cutting in Pine Forest : Much Inflammable Material on Ground 67 



XII. Balsam-Cedar Swamp : Common Type in Northern Tier op Town- 



ships 89 



Natural Meadow between Granitic Ridges 89 



XIII. Sample op Tillable Soil to be Found on Upland Granitic Areas ... 92 

 Farm on a Glacial Moraine 92 



XIV. Field Strewn with Limestone Boulders : Good Pasturage between 



Them 95 



Poor Pasturage 95 



XV. Typical Upland Farm 97 



Better Type of Farming Country : Gull River Valley Near Min- 



DEN 97 



XVI. White Pine L'og Cut 23 Years Ago and Left as Defective Accord- 



ing to Standards op that Time 99 



The Present Harvest 99 



MAPS 



I. Forest Fires, 1913 32 



II. Forest Distribution in Trent Watershed In pocket 



III. Crown Timber'Lands In pocket 



