. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Forestry Journal, Mai/, 191S 1709. {From an Illustrated Brochure Distributed bij the Canadian Forestry Association to 3000 Alberta Settlers in Timbered Districts â 'I'm an Alberta farmer. Fifteen years ago, I owned a place in Peel County, Ontario. In the spring of 1916 I started West. Queer chances interfere with plans sometimes and I never reached be- yond Matheson, a brisk little town on the Temiskaming and Northern Raihvay. I left the train for a day; I didn't get aboard again for six months. The country looke
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Forestry Journal, Mai/, 191S 1709. {From an Illustrated Brochure Distributed bij the Canadian Forestry Association to 3000 Alberta Settlers in Timbered Districts â 'I'm an Alberta farmer. Fifteen years ago, I owned a place in Peel County, Ontario. In the spring of 1916 I started West. Queer chances interfere with plans sometimes and I never reached be- yond Matheson, a brisk little town on the Temiskaming and Northern Raihvay. I left the train for a day; I didn't get aboard again for six months. The country looked too good to miss. Splendid rich soil, good roads, a first class railway, and ready markets. Being a new^ country, most of the clearings were marked off by thick patches of spruce bush. When midsummer came, the smoke of bush fires was everywhere. Hot mornings gave way to hotter after- noons and still the fires raged. Some- times a settler would pile his debris against the standing timber on the edge of his clearing and then set fire. Another might attempt a wind- row, out of reach of the spruce bush, but with no one watching it the first night breeze sent the llames racing across the peaty topsoil and into t-lie forest. On my brother's farm, we tried to burn during the hottest days and burn safe, too. But you might as well talk of having a safe smoke over a powder keg. I recollect one day saying to my l)rother: "This slash burning is bound to put some of us in the grave- yard,âif rain doesn't come before ; He neither agreed nor disagreed. Through the kitchen door I could see the clouds of smoke gathering across the seillement. "You play with death," I warned, "every time you start clearing fires in weather like ; "How else will the land get clear- ed?" my brother asked. ^SV//V or L^nsafr Ways? "They get it cleared just as quick in Quebec, Nova Scotia and British Columbia, and most of the States," 1 told him, &qu
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