Title: Canadian forestry journal
Identifier: canadianforestry16canauoft (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: Canadian Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals
Publisher: (Ottawa) : Canadian Forestry Association
Contributing Library: ROM - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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How Rcgiiia"s handsome legislative buildings are enhanced by a park of thriving trees. Prairie Tree-Planting and Profits from Live Stock (An Inter\>iew with Dr. Rutherford of the Board of Railway Commissioners, formerly Veterinary Director Qeneral of Canada) The Canailian Rbrestry Association has been directing considerable attention to the subject of tree planting on the open prairies of Western Canada for shelter purposes for the crops and for beautifying and rendering more comfort- able the homes of our Western farmers and ranchers. The importance of the re- lation of shelter belts to the live stock in- dustry has perhaps not been sufficiently emphasized and the following remarks embracing the opinion of such a well- known authority as Dr. Rutherford should prove of interest and value to our Western readers. According to Dr. Rutherford, there can be no doubt as to the advantage of judiciously planted windbreaks to live stock for their protection and for the growing of forage ; and such windbreaks should, in his opinion, be planted around barns, outbuildings and corrals on the bald open prairie. Cattle, like most human beings, are very susceptible to the bitter cold winds which blow across the prairie in winter and an efficient wind- break of trees planted around the corral or cattle sheds is sufficient to aiTord the necessary shelter. In Manitoba there is, as a rule, suffic- ient natural shelter in the shape of bluffs of Poplar, Willow, etc., to which the cattle or sheep can go for protection against the cold winds, but on the open prairies in Saskatchewan, and particular- ly Southern Alberta, the natural shelter is seldom available. Protection from the wind in the shape of efficient windbreaks of trees is all that is necessary to maintain live stock in a state of health and contentment. The relation of tree shelter belts for the growing of forage for live stock is also a very important one. It has been found extremely difficult to successfully grow corn without adequate shelter. Ex- periments with the growing of sun- flowers conducted bv Dr. Rutherford

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