. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Forestry Journal, September, 1915. 189 they represent very considerable money value—a potential forest which some day will give wood crops and render every square rod of the sandy waste as good a rev- enue producer as can be found in the county. Hardwoods are also grown in en- ormous quantities, such varieties as ash and hard maple, elm, nettle tree, etc., reaching a growth in one year's time that surprises all who guage tree growing possibilities by unaid- ed natural processes. These, too, are kept in perfect co
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Forestry Journal, September, 1915. 189 they represent very considerable money value—a potential forest which some day will give wood crops and render every square rod of the sandy waste as good a rev- enue producer as can be found in the county. Hardwoods are also grown in en- ormous quantities, such varieties as ash and hard maple, elm, nettle tree, etc., reaching a growth in one year's time that surprises all who guage tree growing possibilities by unaid- ed natural processes. These, too, are kept in perfect condition by weeding and artificial moisture. On the property owned by the De- partment are substantial areas of hardwood and mixed forest. They have been heavily interplanted with evergreens which are showing good development and will, in time, greatly improve the value of the woodlands. Means of protection against fire have been taken in all sections of the property, four miles of ploughed fire guards, carefully tented, traversing the timbered sec- tions and keeping the young growth clear of risk. Planting Up the Sands. Of course, one of the first objects of establishing the Government Nurseries in Norfolk County was to bring it into direct relation to the problem of barren lands. Thi^ will be dealt with in a subsequent, arti- cle. Norfolk County, which in parts, has ideal fertility of soil, pos- sesses ten thousand acres of sand in one block in the townships of Wal- singham and Charlotteville. To re- claim this once useful area to the purposes of timber growing, so that no square mile of the county shall bear the stigma of 'barren,' has for some years engaged the attention of the Department. Large tracts have been planted many hundreds of thousands of trees being taken for this purpose from the A thick growth of Scotch and jack pine at St. Williams, six years from the nursery, or about nine years from seed. The Canadian Forestry Journal will be sent to any addres
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