Forest protection in Canada, 1912-1914, by Clyde Leavitt . RAILWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY PREVIOUS TO CLEARINGAs required by Section 297 of the Railway Act. A WINTER FOREST SURVEY CAMP IN NORTHERN ONTARIO RAILWAY FOREST FIRES Wherever satisfactory arrangements can be made with theowners of cultivated lands who object to the construction of fire-guards through fields of grain, flax, hay, etc., while the crop ison the ground, fire-guards as above specified shall be constructedat the earliest possible date after the removal of the crop, and thestubble shall be then burned over between the fire-guard and th
Forest protection in Canada, 1912-1914, by Clyde Leavitt . RAILWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY PREVIOUS TO CLEARINGAs required by Section 297 of the Railway Act. A WINTER FOREST SURVEY CAMP IN NORTHERN ONTARIO RAILWAY FOREST FIRES Wherever satisfactory arrangements can be made with theowners of cultivated lands who object to the construction of fire-guards through fields of grain, flax, hay, etc., while the crop ison the ground, fire-guards as above specified shall be constructedat the earliest possible date after the removal of the crop, and thestubble shall be then burned over between the fire-guard and thetrack. Where owners of cultivated lands object to the constructionof fire-guards through fields of grain, flax, hay, etc., arrangementsshould be made, wherever possible, for the utilization, during theensuing year of strips not less than sixteen feet in width, at a dis-tance of not less than three hundred feet from the track, for thegrowing of root crops, such as potatoes, turnips, beets, etc., sincesuch strips will serve as efficient fire-guards and will not preventthe utilization of the land, as would be the case were fire-guardsplowed t
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