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Zurich Herald, 1923-10-25, Page 3Cat eillatis Have Planted BY 17r. G. D. Howe, Preeiclent, Canadian Forestry Association, , At the Ontario Forestry Station at programs, the leader in this work be - r , 6t. Williams,illiams, about 604 acres are now under plantations. and .the nursery oqutains un werda of 15000,00o young trees, There are about 5,000,000 more seedlings, ,at the two eunsidiary-.nur- series, one at, Orono, Durham, County, and the other at 'Midhurst, .Iu Sircoe County, established last year. The mother nursery in Norfolk County since . its restablie'hroeut has distri- buted around 6,000,000 • seedlings, chiefly to farrnors„ for the planting up of waste places, or at the rate of 350, y 000 seedlings a year. At the; present time it supplies a great deal of material for planting in the co-operative arrangements be- tween the Comities and Municipalities as well as stock for fixing 700 acres of shifting.: baud 'in Prince Edward County; in all over a million seedlings,• and cuttings were distributed last year. May Restock White Pine. „ e The ,production of 20,000,000 seed-. lings in the Ontario Provincial nurser- los 1s preparatory to the Gavernanent's plan of. reforesting. 10,000 ,acres of waste land in Old Ontario, each year 'for at yeast 60 years. The Provincial arester estimates that 600,000 plant- ed acres,- all within 100 ranee of the •principal' markets, eventually' would yield •more sawlog material than le now gleaned frons over eleven million; acres of timber. limits under. license scattered front, one end of the"Pro- , vince to the other.' A farest nursery was established in the Province of Quebec at Berthier- ville in 1903, and sinceethat time about four million seedlings have been dis- tribated for private planting and in 'addition more than 300 acres; of 'shift ing sand areas have bee:a reclaimed. The latter is. the beginning of the For- est Service program of reforesting as much as posssibee; of the three'millien markets are near and adequate fire acres of waste land within the Pro- vince. , Quebec has also under con- siderati.,n the 'establis'iment of com- munal forests. What the Companies Are Doing.: - The planting of forests in Canada is not confined to Government organi- zations.' It. is a notable and significant fact, that certain pulp- and paper coin panes are carrying on reforestation the forest. Mg the l.aurentide Company at Grand Mere, Quebec, The forester of -this in nu �Se a T r bli lz ed � . x 'r eta s yai a co Y rn1 r er t� nus I�J1'l. In the eleven rears the Y has grown from a few square rode to a0 acres in extent and it nowleontains 15,000,000' seedlings and transplants: 'llte epmlaay hays, planted 2,500 acres,: P'ractically all the work has been done ori pnrohased lands, not on' lands leased under timber limit regulations, The IlI ordon Company established a forest nurser and has reforested about 300 acres. The Abitibi Com- pany and the Spanish River Company have forest nurseries, and ars initiat- ing reforestation programa. .::.I can find no statements he the vagi- ons official' reports as to the extent of the area • under Pores plantations in Canada. If, however, we -take the num :her of esedlings known to have been. distributed by the Dominion and Pro- vincial organizations, and the areas planted by private companies during, the past 20 years, and suppose that they were planted at the rate of 1,200 per acre; and allow a, 20 per cent. loss, we find that in; the neighborhood ot 50,000 acres have been planted to trees, or at the rate of 2,500 acres' a year for the past twenty years. It is only fair to 'point out, however, that only 'a small portion.. of this area is• What wouldbe strictly called forest plantation. Much the .greater, portion consists of shelte." belts and small. patches of waste land on farms. So far as'I am able to ascertain, there are about 6,000 acres of actual forest plan- tations, for the purpose of timber pro- duction alone, in Eastern Canada. A Profitable Investment.''` Forest planting for purposes of tim- ber production will without doubt re- sult in profitable investment in the older portions of the - country where protection' is assured, but neither of the two later condiions applies on much the greater portion of our for- ested area. Here in most cases arti- ficial reforestation is not indicated. The function of forest planting is tb supplement our main forestry •effort, which is the guidance of Nature's 'Creative and regenerative forces in The Weaver of Rugs. The • Weaver of Pugs has dreamed a dream And brooded the summer through; With tender love he's plotted his theme ' • And now His dream's come true. He' eneneea ante -carpet over the hills, Sboit 'is- its silken sheen Of red and the color of'daffodils, Of rose and orange and' green. And a patch of blue, reflecting there The color of autumn skies; The pattern vague, but beyond com- pare Are these clear, mysterious dyes. Its knotted warp in the ground below Holds close its• shimmering pile. The Weaver of Rugs has dreamed it so, And this •' is its Maker's smile. ' The Weaver of Rugs, bas dreamed a dream And brooded the suzumer through,. Over the forest, field and stream • And nem His dream's come true! —Beatrix R,eynolde. Mountain Aerials. A. large wireless station is being fit- ted up in Bavaria, which will have the distinction of being the only an.e of its, kind in the world. Instead of having steeltowers for aerials, this unique `;;station will employ two high adjacont mountain peaks for the purpose, As the sides of the peaks are almost per- - pendicular then should prove ideal for broadcasting messages. Owing to the great height and length of the aerial, its ends will be attached -to heavy, wagon like appliances on the ground, these- serying to balance the effect of wind pressure. Many long-distancerecords are ex-. • pected to be, brokenwhen the station is complete and' the mountain" aerial gets into action. :. Smile.:: • • Someone has said- that no smile is so :beautiful as the one that struggles through tears. If we . only use our afflictions . and troubles aright we can soften and enrich our natures by our sufferings, our disappointments, or we ' can turn.tltem into ,nstruments of tor- ture. On the Reed Minister '(sternly) ----"I want to satie- ty myself as. to the contents of that bottle;" o Woozy Wet ---"Jos' s' long as yer Killjoys. Among the most practical end easy methods of mending one's relations with other persons is praise. Unimag- inative persons don't praise their fel- lows because they can't find anything to praise. They are literalists, and Just Borrowed It. The doctor called on a man who was ill, and told the wife that she must put hint into a recumbent position. "A what, doctor?" "A . recumbent position," said the doctor. As soon as he had gone, she went to a neighbor and said: "Mrs. Brown, could you lend me a recumbentapos1- tion?" But Mrs. Brown was determined not to show her ignorance,and answered: "I'm very sorry, my dear, but I've just lent mine to 1VIrs. Smith." —AND THE W R, Y~LTO ernes. ei fil 11i C..►_•-..,�: .. ,hip, �,�. : 5--� 1 i n • +o v ` Upland Meadow. Are the sweet airs- always ::blowing in the balsam and: the oak trees? Is the sky with. clouds dappled, and the grassaa, all astir? , Do the berry vines' bold clamber on the wall that's old and crumb ling, As.. they did' each flowerful summer in_the happy days that were? Like - a water color, splendid, glowing rich 'in: gold and azure , Hung on memory's wall for ever, safe from • time and care -full years, Is the , upland meadow stretching,,. broad, serene :a haunt of -child- . hoed, And the thought .of all its- treasures flus my eyes with sudden tears. —Alix Thorn. Outside. A dog and -gun and the open fields, • ',the tang's of the autumn air; The savage thrill., as the setter steals' To the bob -white's grassy lair. The open road, a motorcar, . The ithaki''clothes';and all, Ai camping; kit, a journey far, A primas;gypsy call, The campfire's glow, the open sky, A3ed beneath the trees, Tli " solitude when embers die, The forest -scented breeze. A wooded lake, a towering crag, A hunter's, kit,and,boat, The drinking plane of the. lordly stag, Wild geese and ducks afloat. The deep dark woods, where woodfolk dwell, Where•rivers; dash' and:foam— The outdoors holds me in -its spell. nd there I feel athome! t —Cecil D. Basham. nada' o. wodaries Alin The important Work of the International Boundary Com- mission–, -How the Line is Determined axed Marked. The prime importance of haying the ary line between the United Staten boundaries of au individual's real pro - pert, accurately surveyed and defined' both k marks on the ground and hY desei"iption on paper, and a record of the same property registered and ac- knowledged is everywhere recognized, As with the individual so, but In a cor- respondingly greater degree, with the nation. The duty of delimiting .and marking the boundaries between Can- ada and the United States is now Placed upon the International Bound- ary Comnnis'sion composed of two commissioners, one representing each country, This work is `undertaken under the -:' ".ilengethe A,,ady living far inland .was advised by her physician to get salt -water bathing. With her husband she went to the_sea,shore. In the evening, when it happened the tide was in, he went down to the beach with a pail. See- ing a man at work, he asked if he would sail him some water. The man, recovering himself, said he would. "How much?." "Fifty cents." The next morning the inlander tame again, when the tide was out. After his pur- chase, he remarked With commercial zest, "By George, what a business you do!" Customer—"I'd like to try on that pair of shoes inthe showcase, if you please." - Smart Clerk --"But you'd be much more comfortable out here,'madam,, in a chair!" and Canada extends 645 miles en south es s C a to Mount St, eta M u t M x n along the1�k,5t d 1 n g J Elias, and parallels the Pacific Ocean s'liort distance inland and through the Portland canal for a distan•ee of 862 miles, Than from the entrance to the straits of Juan de Fuca, the. boundary extends eastward 3,000 miles across the continent to the mouth of Passamaquoddy Bay on the Atlantic coast. The first stretch of this ex- tends- xtends' along the �d9th Parallel Trona the Pacific Ocean to the Lake of the Woods and thence to' Lake Superior, a distance of 1,668 miles, then through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence authority of certain treaties and eon- to the Bay of Fundy, a distance of 775 veutions entered into by Great Britaip !riles, Of the 1,500 miles of the Alas - and the United States. The defining kas boundary, 180 miles are water and of the Alaskan coast boundary was so are 2,100 miles of the 3,900 miles done under the Convention of 1903; 'from the Pacifio to the Atlantic Ocean. tb.e work on the 141,st Meridian from i The surveys were executed through - the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias, ' out with a scientific :accuracy befitting (the boundary between Alaska and the .boundary between sovereign the Yukon) under the Convention of states. The expense is divided equal- 1906; and that on the boundary from ly between the two countries. The the Atlantic Ocean to, the Pacific operations •consist of reconnaissance, Ocean under the Treaty of 1908, secondary, and tertiary schemes of Marked'by Monuments. triangulationa.-reto locate monuments •: . The principal requirements of these; and to control the topography.. treaties orconventions are 'Chat the A twenty -foot sky -line: was opened land boundary shall be marked by dur- through the timber wherever eneoun- abl"e monuments at frequent intervals; tered.on the line, much of this work that the water boundary shall be re -being : very .arduous owing to the ferenced by monuments on the shore; ' rough, mountainous character of the that the boundary line shall be drawn , country, The line proper has been by the Commissioners on accurate, marked by permanent cement and modern maps, and that a joint report metal monuments and permanent describing the boundary line, monu- marks have been set at triangulation menta; and operations shall be sub- I points. mitted at the close of the work. l The work of this Commission fur - As no maps were in existence of nishes three long, accurately mea - sufficient accuracy for the laying down I sured, and permanently marked bases of the International Boundary line, it was necessary to make them, involv- ing the extension of -a belt of triangu- lation along the boundary line to de- termine the .geographic positions of ,,the monuments and to control the topographic work. The work -included the precise measurement of base lines. Levels had to be run to fix elevations and a belt was accurately mapped ex- tending from half a mile to miles on either side -of the boundary line for its entire length. It was also necessary in places to make sounding, In the water areas traversed by the line. Details of the Boundary. From the Arctic Ocean, the bound- which -will serve to control future sur- veys and to co-ordinate existing sur veys. The sections across the con- tinent ontinent ars tied to and controlled by the work of the : Canadian and United States Geodetic Surveys. Part of the record of the work consists of- 290 topographical maps, the preparation, engraving, and printing of these being not the least formidable of the Com- mission's tasks. The geographic posi- tions of all monuments and triangle - lotion stations are computed, and it formation is supplied on request to many federal and provincial govern- ment overnment departments, as well as to many organizations outside of these. Retort. One of the best things ever said by a witness to a counsel was the reply. given ,to Missing, :the barrister, who was at•the time leader of his circuit. He —was defeTxdimg-- u -- !sonar charged with stealing a donkey. The prosecutor had left the animal tied to a gate. When he returned it has van- ished. Missing was -very severe in his ex- amination. "Do you mean to say, witness, that the donkey was stolen from that gate?" "I mean to say, sir," giving the judge and jury a sly look, "the ass was Missing." • they see all the errors. For them 'one error spoils an otherwise perfect page. Poor Chick Chick—"My, what a nice large red! worm!" Clemenceau liveddin the United? States for a short time wlien a child with his father, exiled by Napoleon III. The My little expedition was • slowly working its -way up along the wild Pa- tine coast, walking about all the deep intruding fleets and "canals," and put- ting forth to sea to examine the mat- ing grounds of the sea fowl .on the far- off reefs and uplifts. My assistant was a tcaneko. from the South Sea Is- lands. Not only could he climb well, but he had prehensile toes, else he would have been hurled to his death. from every precipitous cliff. "Don't. go through Seymour Nar- rows," the old man said, "but titer is an island just below it full of cormor- ants and sea pigeons and oyster catchers and -gulls:" We thanked him. I verbally, and my manwith a grunt, and off we stet to find a. boat big enough to cross the Gulf of Georgia. I finally made an ar- rangement with a man one would not expect to find,on that rude shore. He was a Trinity M.A.„ Dublin, with a golden beard and a face that reminded me strongly of the face in the photo- graph taken from the painting, done, 'it was said,, while He was on earth, of • the Master. (`his was exhibited in the window of the •Y,M.C.A. In New York, 187'7-S0, He bad a house on the shore but he lived in the big flat bot- tomed boat I was trying to hire. He bade me take the wheel after we had gone,; -up the narrow waters, and headed cut over the sandheads for the open gulf. The steamer was ninety feet 'long, flat below as the proverbial pancake, and as she failed to sink her twin sdrew when launched, the eccen- tric owner simply laid -beds of cement on her inside 'bottom until the screws were covered. - There was a tall stool in, the wheel houso, and 1 was promptly thrown from that the moment we entered the great so'east swell that was running in the Gaif, Every timethat awful craft 'slid down 'a tiough she plumped her blunt bow deeply into,the retreat= inn sea, and threw geysers over the Wheelhouse. I steered na drunken course u that iinknown water.. Once, don't satisfy yelaelf with the contents an the wayup, we met a gasoline f this 'bottle parson 's all'right." boat from Alaska, She wast painted unters Arno t e K Scenes of the Gulf of Georgia—By ' Bonnycastle Dale. red below the waterline right down to ( birds sprang aloft in a frenzy of rage and fear and circled high above the island. Again they settled on the still warm eggs, and again silence fell on the :Mittlenatch. 1i or ejust a week the Kanaka and I the keel—I saw it all, After thirty miles of this hard struggle with her bluntships, we neared the• lvlittlenatch, an uninhabited island six miles below Seymour Narrows, which were roar- ing like bulls at the full running tide. noted and counted. and located and Directly ahead ot us was "The,meet- photographed the eggs of that nesting ing of the Waters," where the two boat. We found well over 2,000. One great tides that run up and down the night I heard the regular splash, Gull meet—a line of mad, white, dare- splash! of paddles and, craning my ing waves cutting the sea in twain, head out•of the tent, I saw a great, Down rattled the anchorin a beauti- long', high-powered canoe go silently fui bay, and I bade that strange M,A. by, a ghost of former Kwakiutl riders. farewell. He told me as he rang for We were up before daylight and Kan steam—"Indians will visit you in a pointed to the high crest of the uplift. bit,—treat them well,—bad lot—" and off plunged Mrs. Flatbottom; They had landed us in the small boat and promised to call in thirty days' tune: The long wide island was an uplift that had broken from off the mainland:in some convulsion of nature, and all its strata of rocks pointed sky- Ward. A host of sea fowl and gulls .rose screaming before us,, "Kan" and I carried the duffle up and put upthe tent. Fully' a hundred gulls were sit- ting on the nests right across from'. the tent door, and all the rocks cover - ,ed with guillimot sea pigeons) or oyster catchers, or bigblack cornice -- ante screaming and flapping wildly overhead. I estimated, before the sun set, that there Were a thousand Birds on the;Mittlenatch, a large proportion of which had eggs,' the gulls four, the guillimots two, : theoyster catchers. three, the cormorants three or four. So that hare were fully 2,500 eggs there for us to guard (as I had re- ceived a ,trust • from the head of the government to try and preserve the eggs on all the breeding isles I visit- ed), isit-ed) there was a silvery moon ` that nigrit with a mass of recingr- lacy.. Clouds between, and the nesting birds were late In sleeping. Until ten o'clock varleas whimpering 'notes earns from the dark ledges where the,,. nests- lay, I then all was still as though the island were deserter.!. Sud•itenly across the face, of the moon dew a groat owl--- "l.Wh who-oo" and all the nesting There stood a kloatchman with child on back and egg basket on arm. We ki ran about and found many of the nests with broken eggs in them or empty of all eggs, and we hastened and caught up with the oldest man of the raiders. "Kla-how-yai" I called. "ItIa-how yai" he answered.. "(How are you)" in Chinook. This is a dialect of the entire coast formed of English, French Spanish, Indian." "Iktah mike mamook?" I cried. "(What do you do?)" "Kahtah mika" he called. "What ails you)." I told him in broken Chi- nook and English that the eggs must not be taken. He told, me his father and his lather before him gathered eggs when the -wild onion (garlic) was anima ...r.- r rano.... J05.11U. t4otsr H 14 ns up. I asked him how many: "Many times what they get now," he replied. Then I told him that if they did take these eggs every year the little ones among them would not have any eggs left to gather when they grew up, and then he said: "Yaka hyas solleko" ("we are very hungry)" and off they went, filling their baskets and break ing the oldest eggs so that.elaw ones would be laid. Of course we were powerless. My only weapon in any wild country is my tripod for my camera and there were twenty of them to two of us, so they despoiled the is• land, Not only do they gather the eggs in late May, if any, and all of June and part of July, but they set fire to the dry vegetation on the top of the great uplift, "so that onions grow next year," they told ire, and mien any young in the nests unable to fly are burned to death. If; they rob, as we saw them in June, tho full clutch of four eggs of the Glacous winged gulls then the next clutch would be but two and if that was taken the third but one. No wonder there are only a few hundred gulls and seafowl on any of these far-off breeding grounds. The ones that lie off in the Pacific, where the tiderips howl and "overfalls" occue (boiling up of waters, from the wild in- rush of the tides into narrowing ehan- nels) are rarely visited by: white men, but are regularly robbed by the In- dians. The whites do eat the eggs of the gulls; the yolks are very red and tho egg tastes strong, I made my last "'isit tl,@re some years ago (1911) and the Indians. gath- ered eggs and garlic still. I asked the old chief: "Have you seen Chief Chaco of the Naas?" I had been there lately and had the photograph of the old In- dian with the devil fish he had taken to eat. I pulled the picture from ney pocket and held it towards him. -- "Ela -how ye -Ma -how -yea" "(Gooddayi Goodday I )" he muttered, retreating rapidly. His haltbreed son -inn -law told me that he cams home and said, "'%'al] mat got 'Chief Chico in his pocket_. -AH 11"