Page 16 TERRACE ‘“‘Omineca” HERALD, TERRACE, BRITISH COLUMBIA Wednesday, February 2, 19 Minor Surgery For Skeena M.P. Frank Howard, MP for Skeena, entered the Ottawa General Hos- Pital Sunday, January 30, for a minor operation to remove a polyp from the back of the nasal pass- age. Mr. Howard expected to be hos- Pitalized for only two or three days. YURON TRACTOR PARTS LTD. Box 554, Prince George, B.C. Tel, 564-9151, 564-2612 COMPLETE REBUILDING SERVICE ctf A forester's ee SELLING USED CARS RIVERSIDE Auto Wreckers Highway 25 Ph, V1 3-687 ‘Mr. and Mrs, Duke Newhoven, Mr. and Mrs, Ernie McConnell and and Mr. and Mrs, J. Fred Weber ate at present holidaying in Ha- waii. aaa an ae ate ae ate ate ate ate ate at aie amy” Call 843-5752 SUPERIOR BUILDING MAINTENANCE LTD. 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There also has leon practical application of sel- in agriculture down through the ages. The forest tree-breeder came on the scene only recently, but he came much -better equipped than his predecessors in the fields of plant and animal breeding whose skills, although well and purpose- fully used, were wanting in scienti- a More Robin Hood Flour [100°c°e BONUS CERTIFICATE CASH WINNERS $100.00 winners for week of January 31, 1966 Mrs. Hattie Hazlehurst Pritchard Safeway Store, Kamloops Mrs. Roy Mouland 505 - 7th Ave. GE. Prince Rupert Co-op Centre, 138 - 3rd Ave. W. Mrs. Louise McMillan Kitamaat Village . Grants Coffee Shop YOU TOO CAN WIN $100 CASH! Look for 6100 Certificates in the 25 Ib. bags of Robin Hood Flour, Fi mie i> 25 the, Hy ROBIN HOOD FLOUR is really big on bake-testing... to hetp you make a good thing a sure thing! ) TS Modern Forester Has Entirely New Approac —by THE Hu NOURABLE RAY WILLISTON, Minister of Lands, Forests, and Water Resources A gnarled, windswept tree, clinging tenaciously to the brink of a rugged cliff has an air of artistic and Oriental splendour. However, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and while such a sight would delight the landscape. artist it: is more than likely to distress the forester, must straight and tall, clean-stemmed and large of girth. To obtain his ideal he will spend many pattient years of research in the forests and in the tree nurseries. From Just what is the modern forast- er’s approach? And what are some of the problems he must resolve? To begin with, good seed is the first ingredient of sticcessful re- forestation. Both the germinative capacity of the seed and the gene- tic characteristics of the parents are important. However, there is no swift, sure way to determine the heredity characteristics of seed parents and their offspring. One of the first steps is to pay attention to the provenance or geographic source of seed. It is a safe rule to collect seed from trees of native stock growing as closely as possible to the planting Site. For example, the Forest Serv- ice registers the place of origin of all seedlots and makes every ef- fort to use stack produced from seed harvested within 100 miles horizontally and 1, 000 feet ver- tically of the point where it is to be used. But this is not always possible because of the irregular- ity of seed production in a given area, and it then becomes the task of the research scientist to say how far seed may be moved from its source with impunity. Of considerable importance to the future of British Columbia's forests are the studies under way to develop seed transfer rules for eoastal Douglas fir and for the white and Engelmann spruce of the interior. Already spruce seed- lings over one year old are being observed for growth behaviour in the nursery. These spruce seed- jings represent 150 seed sources widely dispersed throughout the interior forests from the southern border to an area north of Fort St. John. After three years in the nursery, the better performing provenances will be used to esta- blish test plantations at several selected points in the four interior districts of the Forest Service. In each plantation, the survival and growth of the seedlings whose parents come from widely separ- ated areas will be compared to each other and to seedlings from a seed-source nearest to the plant- ing site. In time, as they grow, the plantations will provide crit- eria to say whether or not it is necessary to be as restrictive as at present on the transfer of seed from one region to another. at Lakelse Hotel Dining Room Open Daily — We Specialize in Sunday Dinners NEW BANQUET ROOM NOW AVAILABLE FOR MEETINGS The control of provenance aloy does not ensure the collection good seed. It still must be colledg ed from the best mother trees, stands of acceptable quality. requires intensive selection to tate trees that will have proge at least as good as the best tainable in nature. Ft is almost i possible to distinguish with eqjam tainty the effect of environma from those hereditary charact¢ istics by the appearance of tr in the forest. Cuttings have tof taken from the tree crowns a grafted to root stock. This is a laborious technig when we think in terms of evi a model number of trees such 500 or 1,000. Btu it does en that the hereditary characterist? of selected trees are preserv! from exploitation or natural astrophe, and it. also provides: bank of material for the genetic{ to use when he seeks to impra existing strains by selective bre|, ing or hybridization. Even then such a bank does solve immediately the problem finding a large supply of hi quailty seed to renew our forep One of the best ways to make % progeny of those selected try available in sufficient quantity } extensive planting is to establk seed orchards in which desiral trees are propagated and cultivé ed exclusively as sources of set The progeny from this seed « be expected to have growth chy acteristics superior to wild sourd of local seed and to be adapted \ the rigours of the planting sij However, it takes patience and: long period of observation to &g sess the results. if As one forest scientist sadly ol served: “The only drawback ti forest genetics is that one is onl; mortal and will not see the fineg results of many of the studies} which have been inaugurated.” i Parties - Weddings - Large Parties up to 350 0 For Reservations Phone Dances - Conventions r for as smal! as 20 Persons VI 3-2287 or VI 3-6062 Lokelse Avenue 2 a Terrace, B.C. |