. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 410 Canadian Forestry Magazine, Aiigust-Scptcnibcr, Can the prairie produce trees? Notice this beautiful effect at Brandon, Manitoba, ; a n of evergreens and hardwoods. Is not this an improvement on a bare wind-swept plain. "Do Not Use Less Timber, Grow Morer From a Public Statement by Col. IVm. B. Greeley, Chief Forester of the United States. Many of us who served in France â were able to see at first hand the condi- tions of life and industry in a country where population has crowded close up- â¢on n
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 410 Canadian Forestry Magazine, Aiigust-Scptcnibcr, Can the prairie produce trees? Notice this beautiful effect at Brandon, Manitoba, ; a n of evergreens and hardwoods. Is not this an improvement on a bare wind-swept plain. "Do Not Use Less Timber, Grow Morer From a Public Statement by Col. IVm. B. Greeley, Chief Forester of the United States. Many of us who served in France â were able to see at first hand the condi- tions of life and industry in a country where population has crowded close up- â¢on natural resources, where for the masses living has become close and hard, :and, even to maintain standards of com- fort far below what the average Ameri- â¢can demands, a degree of thrift and frugality beyond our comprehension must be constantly employed. In France â wood is a commodity of a totally differ- tent character from what it has been in the United States. Even with the care and intelligence applied unremittingly to French forests, lumber is priced as an imported luxury. No one can become familiar with that country without ap- preciating how this fact handicaps the comfort of living and the industrial o])- portunities of the French nation. The gleaning of the forests for little fagots, the very scaffolds used .in city building, which are made out of small poles care- fully lashed together and used over and over again, tell the storv. With all their beauty and picturesqueness the rural dis- tricts of France often leave an impres- sion of decadence. A new structure of any kind is a rare sight and moss-covered stone buildings of the time of Jeanne d'Arc must serve the French farmer of to-day. Only a people great in industry and foresight could, under such limita- tions, have built up within an area less than that of our single largest state, the great industrial nation that France is to- day. The lesson which such things bring home is, in a broad way, the same funda-
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