. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. A Permanent Forest Asset Easily Within the Power of the Canadian People—The Lumberman's View. Canada is a forest country, full of lumbering and empty of forestry. Over sixty per cent of our total area is unfitted for agriculture. Of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, for example, fully seventy per cent will never pay a profit to the plow. In Quebec, about nme million acres are being tilled, out of more than 250 million acres of area. About two-thirds of Manitoba is for timber-growing solely, and in what is commonly called &qu
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. A Permanent Forest Asset Easily Within the Power of the Canadian People—The Lumberman's View. Canada is a forest country, full of lumbering and empty of forestry. Over sixty per cent of our total area is unfitted for agriculture. Of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, for example, fully seventy per cent will never pay a profit to the plow. In Quebec, about nme million acres are being tilled, out of more than 250 million acres of area. About two-thirds of Manitoba is for timber-growing solely, and in what is commonly called "treeless Alberta," not more than 40 per cent of its 163 million acres are fit for cereal production, and in 1915 only 6,000,000 of Alberta's acres were tilled. Can- ada's most widely distributed crop therefore is wood, the harvest of the timberland. THE DOWN HILL TENDENCY. Contrary to usual belief, forests are not a self-perpetuating asset. If it were so, Cana- dians would fear nothing from the bush-whack- ing programme of armies of men. If pme fol- lowed pine and spruce followed spruce, invar- iably and without loss of a century or more of time between crops, Ontario and Quebec would have quite as much pine and spruce as stood on the soil in 1850. But pine is a failing crop and so short is the supply that Ontario's cut is swiftly decreasing year by year. Spruce is not repeating itself except at long inter- vals—about 150 years in Central Quebec. The two great pillars of the wood-using industries of Eastern Canada are a pine log and a spruce log. Human ingenuity can bring along no substitutes. It is pine and spruce or disaster. WHICH DEFINITION? Right here we come upon the cross-roads of Canadian forest policy. Lumbering, as com- monly practised, means cutting timber for the market. This is good as far as it goes. The theory was quite sufficient for the days of super- fluous forests and ill-developed machinery of government. Our forests are no longer super- fluous.
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