. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 34 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER Dean Fcrnow on Forestry. At the final public lecture of the Summer School of the University of Toronto which was held recently in the Physics Building, before a fair audience, two speakers took part. Dean Pernow, of the Depart- ment of Forestry, and Mr. E. J. Zavitz, of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, delivered interesting addresses on reforestation. A number of lantern views were shown illustrating the remarks of each spea
. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 34 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER Dean Fcrnow on Forestry. At the final public lecture of the Summer School of the University of Toronto which was held recently in the Physics Building, before a fair audience, two speakers took part. Dean Pernow, of the Depart- ment of Forestry, and Mr. E. J. Zavitz, of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, delivered interesting addresses on reforestation. A number of lantern views were shown illustrating the remarks of each speaker Dean Fernow stated that Canada was poor in resources of that kind of timber used in the arts. The chief forests of value were located in British Columbia, and in the Maritime Provinces. There were, said the speaker, only 200,000,000 acres of timber land, instead of four times that amount, which was the usual claim. Destruction ot forests by fire meant not only loss of timber, and its future growth, but more* than that, the loss of the soil itself. When the timber was all swept away by successive fires, the soil was exposed to wind and water, and soon carried away by the latter. Something might be found m the future to take the place of wood, but nothing could take the place of the iv Some of Dean Fernow's views showed the process ot replanting trees on rockv hillsides, that had been denuded of both forests and soil. Willow bundles were anchored to the rocks to check the flow of a streamlet, and in this way soil was deposited, and young trees planted. . Mr. Zavitz confined his attention to the work of reforestation m Ontario. There were two phases of the work, he said, reforestation of waste lands of farms, and similar work in large areas of country in the older parts of Ontario. There were 10,000 square miles of forest reserves in the province, but a large portion of this included bodies of water. Of the smaller reserves in the southern part of the province, there we
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