. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 912 Canadian Forestry Journal, January, 1917. i Free Cartoon Service of Canadian Forestrv Assoc. I I i Although the interests of the farm and the forest have been regarded in the past as more or less distinct and hostile, the broader outlook stimu- lated by the War has brought in- telligent Canadians to understand the woodsman and the agriculturist as close partners in the great Canadian estate. More than sixty per cent, of the whole area of Canada is adapted by Nature for growing timber or held as permanent barrens and w
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 912 Canadian Forestry Journal, January, 1917. i Free Cartoon Service of Canadian Forestrv Assoc. I I i Although the interests of the farm and the forest have been regarded in the past as more or less distinct and hostile, the broader outlook stimu- lated by the War has brought in- telligent Canadians to understand the woodsman and the agriculturist as close partners in the great Canadian estate. More than sixty per cent, of the whole area of Canada is adapted by Nature for growing timber or held as permanent barrens and will not produce field crops profitably. On this sixty per cent, no farmer desires an acre. At the same time it ought to be producing revenues for the na- tion. As much of it as possible should be kept under frest growth, producing wood crops regularly. This is the argument for "forest conserva- tion" in a nutshell. No one asks to be allowed to use agricultural lands for tree growing. And no farmer will object if the country maintains non- agricultural lands in their natural money-making conditions, giving tim- ber harvests year by year. but is the ally and supporter of agri- culture. Canada takes $200,000,000 a year from the forests and a very great part of this amount goes to purchase farm products. Until every destructive forest fire is stopped and every timber-growing area restored to its productive condition, Canada's agricultural interests must suffer the chief loss. Of every hundred dollars that come out of the forest, seventy- five dollars go for wages and supplies. The remaining twenty-five dollars pay interest on the lumbermen's invest- ment and help make up the $7,500,000 taken by the provincial and federal governments each year in taxes. Canadian Forestry Association, Ottawa. The Forest Dollar, therefore, is not earned at the expense of agriculture. New B. C. Minister of Lands. The Hon. Thomas Dufferin Pat- tullo, has been chosen as Minister of Lands in the
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