. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1076 Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1917 the encouragement of men, with fam- iUes, who can find work in the logging camps or mills for a certain period in each year. Good crops can be raised by cultivating between the stumps, which can be removed as conditions permit, but success will be impossible if the settler is burden- ed with a purchase price in which heavy overhead expenses and pro- motion costs have been included, as the settler's capital usually consists of a big family and his bare hands. Survey Comes First.
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1076 Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1917 the encouragement of men, with fam- iUes, who can find work in the logging camps or mills for a certain period in each year. Good crops can be raised by cultivating between the stumps, which can be removed as conditions permit, but success will be impossible if the settler is burden- ed with a purchase price in which heavy overhead expenses and pro- motion costs have been included, as the settler's capital usually consists of a big family and his bare hands. Survey Comes First. The first step tow^ard the utiliza- tion of a tract of logged-off land seems naturally to be a survey and then its sub-division into plots so arranged that each settler will have access, if possible, to any stream flowing through the area and to the roads, w^hich have been located prior to the purchase by the settler. REPLANTING SAND DUNES The famous Sandbanks in Prince Edward county may be converted into a big reforestation plot. The drifting sand has covered several hun- dred acres of farm lands adjoining, rendering the property useless. A deputation w^aited upon Hon. G. H. Ferguson, Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, Toronto, with the recjuest that the Ontario government estab- lish a reforestation scheme upon this barren waste. The Minister seemed favorably impressed with the sugges- tion and promised consideration. .{.„ ,.j „ „„ „„ ,j ,., „„ „„ „, „, „„ „, „„ „ J, I SERMONS IN TREES 1 Exchange I A good colored man once said I in a class meeting—"Bredren, I when I was a boy I took a hatch- f et and went into de woods. When I found a tree dat was straight, big, and solid, I didn't touch dat tree; but when I found one leaning a little, and hollow inside, I soon had him down. So, when dem debils gets after Christians he don't touch dem dat's straight and true, but dem dat lean a little and are hollow ;. HANDBOOK OF TREE
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