. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. FORESTS FORESTS 319 square miles, nearly half of which is in British Columbia. Commercial timber is now, and will con- tinue to be, secured from the forests of the old eastern provinces and British Columbia,the remain- ing territory being either forestless or depleted of its valuable timber. Some twenty-five millions of acres have been cut out in the settlement of the country for farm purposes. The composition in general is the same as that of the northern forest in the United States : hard- woods (birch, maple and elm prevailing) with con
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. FORESTS FORESTS 319 square miles, nearly half of which is in British Columbia. Commercial timber is now, and will con- tinue to be, secured from the forests of the old eastern provinces and British Columbia,the remain- ing territory being either forestless or depleted of its valuable timber. Some twenty-five millions of acres have been cut out in the settlement of the country for farm purposes. The composition in general is the same as that of the northern forest in the United States : hard- woods (birch, maple and elm prevailing) with conifers mixed, the latter, especially spruce, be- coming pure occasionally. The nearly pure hard- wood forest of the southern Ontario peninsula has been supplanted almost entirely by farms, and here, even for domestic fuel, coal, imported from the United States, is used. Although white pine, the most important staple, is found in all parts of this forest region, the best and largest supplies are now confined to the region north of Georgian bay. Unopened spruce- and fir-lands still abound, especially in Quebec on the Gaspe peninsula. Spruce forms also the largest share in the composition of the New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfound- land forest, the pine in the first two provinces having practically been cut out. Extensive, almost pure balsam-fir forest, fit for pulp wood, still covers the plateau of Cape Breton, while Prince Edward island is to the extent of 60 per cent cleared for agricultural use. Much of this eastern forest area is not only culled of its best timber, but burnt over, and thereby deteriorated in its composition. North of the Height of Land (a plateau with low hills, which cuts off the Atlantic region from the northern country, and marks the northern limit of commercial forest) in Ungava and west- ward, spruce continues to timber line, but, outside of narrow belts following the river valleys, only in open stand, branchy and stunted, hardly fit even for pulp, fo
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