. Canadian forest industries 1880-1881. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. FOREST CULTURE ON THE PRAIRIES. In a thickly-wooded country it is natural that sutlers should turn their chief efforts to getting of the timber. Only a very small portion of it can be utilized for building and fences; the rest is valuable only for the potash it will pro- duce. This is true of the early settlements. After a while the merchantable timber, the black walnut, where it happens to grow, the pine, the oak, the bird's-eye maple,
. Canadian forest industries 1880-1881. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. FOREST CULTURE ON THE PRAIRIES. In a thickly-wooded country it is natural that sutlers should turn their chief efforts to getting of the timber. Only a very small portion of it can be utilized for building and fences; the rest is valuable only for the potash it will pro- duce. This is true of the early settlements. After a while the merchantable timber, the black walnut, where it happens to grow, the pine, the oak, the bird's-eye maple, are worth marketing. At a further stage, such as that which the State of New York has now reached, almost all kinds of hardwood are valuable, not only to produce heat, but for use in manufactures. In a country where the prairies are all proportion to the â woodlands, large, the necessities are of an opposite kind ; instead of tree destruction, which is the law of progress ii»forest lands, tree planting is a necessity. But there is, nevertheless, a natural reluctance to engage in it. To plant in autumn or spring a crop that will be reaped in the coming summer is what most strongly recommends itself to the farmer. To plant and reap in a few months is the sort of alternation that suits him best. To plant trees which may be years in arriving at maturity, which the planter may never live to see fit for use or the market, offers a too remote chance of compensation for the labor and patience expended, to make planting trees an alluring enterprise. And besides tree growing, which consumes a number of years, raises a question of capital. If a farmer has no capital which he can afford to invest without the hope of a return for a number of years, he cannot go into forest culture, even with a strong inclination to do so. In such a state of things, forest culture needs special encouragement. Bounties and freedom from taxes have both been tried in the western States. In some case
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