. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1642 Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1918 and the barn a stratum of ground, composed of large stones and clay, hammered into place, it might be said, by the wear and tear of years; therefore, dynamiting, as an easy way out, was decided upon. One- third of a stick was used for each shot with one and a half foot of fuse. Two men made the holes and one man cut and prepared the charges, and two men placed the charges in the bore holes. Two hundred and fifty trees were planted in two days with this force. The nursery had ofT
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1642 Canadian Forestry Journal, April, 1918 and the barn a stratum of ground, composed of large stones and clay, hammered into place, it might be said, by the wear and tear of years; therefore, dynamiting, as an easy way out, was decided upon. One- third of a stick was used for each shot with one and a half foot of fuse. Two men made the holes and one man cut and prepared the charges, and two men placed the charges in the bore holes. Two hundred and fifty trees were planted in two days with this force. The nursery had ofTered a price of $ each for the planting when they realized the obstacles they were up against. The total cost of planting with dynamite, including the cost of it, was $ Only nineteen trees were lost out of the two hundred and fifty, and that was more due to the fact that that year was the driest summer that we had had in forty years. The next year the trees made a foot of new wood. Some of the evergreens were ten feet in height. Two years have now gone by since the planting was done and the trees planted with dynamite are a foot taller than trees of larger size which were planted a year previous to this planting but with pick and shovels. A Log Castle Built by One Man. This is a picture of "Sterling Castle,"—not the original in Scotland, but an improvement, built by Mr. James McQuot, a hermit of White Otter Lake, Western Ontario. Mr. McQuot settled on White Otter Lake, in the wilds some forty miles north of Rainy Lake, about fourteen years ago, and immediately started to build this structure, which has but recently been completed. He cut the timber, dragged the logs to the building site, and put every log in place without any assistance what- ever; in fact, he would have no assistance from any one. The "hermit" is well known among the trappers and loggers in that part of Ontario. He is literally "monarch of all he surveys," since there
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