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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1952-02-27, Page 7THE WING-I-1AM ADVANCE-TIMES. in Northern Ontario is from natural reproduction rather than planting, Reforestation from natural repro- duction is much cheaper and is purer than by planting. This is especially true on certain sites such as shallow soil, stony ground, swamps and heavy clay soils, The first requisite of nat- ural seeding is seed trees and they should be of the more valuable' spec- ies, and the reason that large areas have to 'be planted is that there are practically no trees on the area that is to be reforested. Much of the re- forestation' from natural seeding -is not composed of the mere desirable species such as Pine, White Ash, Maple, Basswood, but is largely Blue Beech, Pin Cherry, Hawthorns and Choke Cherry, The reason for this unsatisfactory condition 'is that all the better species were cut and the weed trees were left to seed up open- ings. The practice 'of grazing is respon- sible for the absence of seedlings, sap- lings and small trees in many farm woodlots. The stock browse the seed- lings and saplings, break down the saplings and injure the roots of the larger trees. The small woodlot event ually disappears if it is pastured yearly. It may last fifty to a hundred years, but most of them disappear in a few decades, This Spring and Summer tree seeds will be germinating in the woodlots G. ALAN WILLIAMS Optometrist In former office of Dr. R. C. Redmond Patrick St., Wingham Professional Eye Examinations Phone 770 Evenings by appointment. and many of these tiny seedlings would grow to be valuable timber trees if they were protected from stock and fire. Last year's seed, from Sugar Maple, White Ash, Walnut, Oaks and Pines, will be germinating this spring, Soft Maple and Elin seed will ripen in June and will be dis- persed by the wind. Farmers will be keeping the value of their farms higher by preserving a woodlot because a farm with a woodlot will bring a, better price than one with the entire acreage cleared, even if the farm is all good agricul- tural soils. Even if we did not bene- fit directly we should be unselfish enough to preserve a woodlot for the benefit of future owners and in the interests of conservation, ROW ALL WE CAN THE WORLD NEEDS IT Hundreds of millions of people are starving or on the verge of starva- tion. Hundreds of millions of other people are getting less food than they need to nourish healthy bodies and minds. Hundreds of millions of other people want more and better food than they are getting. These three groups of people total almost two thousand million. They are all in this one world, in which Canada must produce, and exchange as much as the health of our people permits if Canada is to survive as a HAMM'S SMOKE SHOP for - Smokers' SUNDRIES MAGAZINES SOFT DRINKS free nation playing its part in pro- moting world well,being. No Canadian is exempt from the duty of doing all that he or she can do within the limits of health to pro- vide the needs of humanity. In this dire extremity the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, encourag- ed by the Minister of Agriculture, is wondering whether Canadian farm- ers should engage in maximum pro- dention until the world-food market mirage they are following becomes an oasis for them in the desert of economic destruction. The hungry people of the world will pay every cent they can for food, They will deprive themselves of everything else that they can live without to get enough to eat for another day. A free world market for food would bring Canadian farmers the last pittance in price that the world can pay for our production. A con- trolled world food market is an utter impossibility this side of the world government that would deter- mine what everyone ought to have and what every man, woman and child would have to do to get it. The alternatives to maximum pro- duction and exchange are horrifying. They involve a totalitarian Canadian economy in which the work, produc- tion and standard of living of every Canadian must be dictated by an all- wise bureaucracy, The one world we arc in, as it is, not as we would like it to be, is the world in which we must lived work and exchange our goods and services. Our most urgent need is to cut our costs by more production per person per day and by better 'methods, and to reduce our prices accordingly. There is plenty of room in this dir- ection to accomplish enough to keep our agriculture and industry thriving and play our part in averting disas- ter. RECENT & READABLE Several new books dealing With Canada's north are now on the shel- ves of the Wingham Public Library. With so much of Canada's future bound up in the north these books are of special interest to anyone who wishes to keep informed about this relatively unknown section of our country, Both books are both inter- esting and informative, HUDSON'S BAY TRADER by Lord Tweedsmuir In this personal diary of a year spent at a Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading post in Baffin Land, Lord Tweedsmuir has written a vivid, first hand description of the life led by fur traders, trappers, hunters and Es kimos, From 1938 to 1939 he worked in the Far North and was so completely cut off from the outside world that he knew nothing of such historic and momentous events as Munich and the German march into Czechoslovakia. But the fur trader's country did not lack adventure, excitement and some danger, It was a world of its own where a man had to be self re- liant. As the author shows, mere knowledge of trading was not enough.. At different times the fur trader must be a naturalist and a linguist, a hunter and a trapper; a marksman and a navigator. This enthralling travel book and exciting adventure story follows the high literary tradition of the author's father, John Buchan. Thus it was particularly appropriate that, after the author had joined the Canadian Army it was John Buchan who dis- ' covered the manuscript of the diary and had it typed. He used much of, the material in it to give him the authentic background and local col- our for his last novel, Sick Heart River. Hudson's Bay Trader is illustrated by more than eighty photographs, most of which were taken by the author. 0 - 0 - 0 NORTH POLE BOARDING HOUSE as told by Elsie Gillis to Eugenie Myles When Mrs. Gillis accompanied her husband on the Nascopie to Arctic Bay, the separation from the life she had known was as complete as if she had gone to the moon except that there was the radio, a magic bridge between worlds. Mrs. Gillis' husband was an officer at the meteorological station at Arctic Bay, gathering data about the weather upon which "civ- ilization" depended. Mrs. Gillis kept house and boarded the staff, and thus the title of this book. The original title of the MS, was "I Kept a Boarding House between The North Poles," and that is strictly more accurate, but too long for a book. Arctic Bay is situated between the North Pole and the Magnetic North Pole. Here Mrs. Myles has set down the story Mrs. Gillis told her, checking her facts, amplifying here and there as occasion demanded, and organiz- ing it all into book form. It is an ex- citing story, how this. little household lived; how the community farthest north worked and played and surviv- ed, the visitors that came from out beyond, the Priest and the Canon; traders to the Hudson's Bay Post; the crew from a visiting U. S. A. war ship; and of course the exciting pas- senger list of the Nascopie. Here are tragedy and comedy, great heroism and something else, a little frozen world within a world, that is chang- ing with the years. And here are PAGE $1 people among. the .0%4, of the as yet unsung, who belong to tta: cord of Canada expanding frot.i her last frontier. .•„„ iFAMOUS FUR CO. MR, A. 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'Phone 106 Night 189 WINGHAM ONT, Reforestation from Seed in Farm Weedlots There is general , agreement that fifteen to twenty per cent of an agricultural district should be in woodland in order to provide the farmer with cheap fuel and timber, as a help to control floods and as a natural reservoir to supply water to springs and wells. There are also many thousands of acres in Southern Ontario that are only suitable for growing trees. These sub-marginal agricultural lands include light sand, Shallow soils, stony soils, swamps and steep hillsides. , The necessity of Reforestation is apparent, and ,the provincial govern- ment, county councils, township councils and private owners are spending money on planting trees each Spring. Mdgt people think only of planting when Reforestation is mentioned, They do not realize that the larger percentage of reforesta- tion in Southern Ontario is from seed that drops from the trees in a wood- lot. Practically all the reforestation Ceo. 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