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Notes on Agriculture Abroad. 



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and Parks Act, which received Royal Assent on May 19th, 191 1, certain 

 lands in Canada are scheduled and set apart as Forest Reserves for the 

 growth of timber, the conservation of minerals, the protection of 

 animals, birds, and fish, and the maintenance of conditions favourable 

 to a continuous water supply. 



The control or management of the reserves is vested in the Director 

 of Forestry, subject to the direction of the Minister of the Interior. 



The Act provides for the appointment of rangers and the expro- 

 priation of any land within the reserves not vested in the Crown. 



Provision is made to allow of the building of necessary public roads, 

 and the holders of licences to cut timber are protected. 



During the construction of railways the Minister may appoint fire 

 rangers to protect the adjacent forest from fire, one-half the cost of 

 such fire ranging to fall on the constructors of the railways. The 

 ranger is given extensive powers to enforce the provisions of the Act. 



The Governor in Council may make regulations for the proper 

 utilisation of the reserves, including the cutting of timber, working 

 of mines and natural sources of power, preservation of game, and pro- 

 tection against fire. 



The Governor in Council may proclaim areas within the reserves 

 as Dominion Parks, which shall be maintained as public parks and 

 pleasure-grounds. Parts of these parks may be made available for 

 building purposes. 



The Schedule shows that 25 forest reserves are established, aggre- 

 gating 25,200 square miles. Of these, 9 reserves, totalling 2,115 square 

 miles, are in British Columbia, 5 reserves (3,584 square miles) in 

 Manitoba, 7 reserves (937 square miles) in Saskatchewan, and 4 reserves 

 (18,564 square miles) in Alberta. 



Importation of English-Grown Sugar Beet into Holland. — A report by 

 H.M. Consul at Rotterdam (F.O. Reports, Annual Series, No. 4654) 

 states that, in view of the experiments being made in the United King- 

 dom with the cultivation of beet for sugar-producing purposes, it is 

 of interest to note that several ship-loads of British-grown beet arrived 

 at that port in 19 10, destined for inland tinned milk and sugar fac- 

 tories; the crop of Dutch beet not having been equal to the demand, 

 these factories have had to look to another source of supply. 



H.M. Consul adds that the cost of railway freight in the United 

 Kingdom and the sea carriage to the Netherlands so enhance the final 

 value of the beet that its importation into the Netherlands in normal 

 times would not be feasible, and only when the factories are at their 

 wits' end to find the supplies they require will they turn to the United 

 Kingdom to make up the deficiency; whether further shipments will 

 be ordered will also depend on the value of the British beet on the 

 market as a sugar-bearing root. 



Agriculture in Argentina in 1910. — H.M. Minister at Buenos Aires, 

 in reporting on the condition of agriculture in Argentina in 1910, states 

 that the year was an unfavourable one both for crops and cattle, owing 

 chiefly to drought. The shortage in the rainfall, which has been 

 severely felt in the southern districts for three years or more, extended 

 more into the south-western camps of the Pampa, where immense 

 damage was done to lands cultivated for a large part in a poor way 

 by emigrants who had no funds wherewith to face a bad season. 



