1885.] CANADIAN FORESTRY. 293 



Take in corroboration the following items of the principal wood 

 exports from Canada in loads : — 



So here is just another way of putting it, that the goose is killing 

 ^he golden eggs, by hard and fast speculation, which is in the end 

 forestal poverty. 



The complete tables show eveji more extraordinary oscillations 

 than these extracts manifest. The trade relied on the supposed 

 unlimited supplies of the primeval forest. But .our readers have 

 been already informed how these predictions have been found 

 wanting. The somewhat optimist views of Sir Charles Tupper, as 

 chairman at Mr. Simmonds' lecture, surely do not betoken a rest- 

 and-be-thankful policy on the part of the Dominion Government in 

 regard to Forestry. He said : " Care was now taken in the manage- 

 ment of the forests ; only trees of a certain size were allowed to be 

 cut, and it was found that by avoiding the destruction of the smaller 

 trees, allowing the light and air to penetrate, the growth became 

 so rapid, that after a few' years an additional number of trees were 

 of sufficient size for the axe. The various provinces were now 

 enacting laws for the preservation of the forests, and the too rapid 

 destruction was being stopped. It was interesting, looking at the 

 matter not from an English or Canadian, but from an imperial 

 standpoint, to know that, however great might be the demands of 

 England for wood in all its various forms, she coitld turn to one 

 portion or another of her own territories for all the supplies she 

 needed." But how long is this to last ? No mere stop-gap measures 

 of arbor days and the like can supply the lack of a thorough survey 

 of the forest lands, of a forest conservancy independent of political 

 changes, and the prevention of such speculations in Government 

 licences as unfortunately proved somewhat of a bitter bit to recent 

 Edinburgh shareholders. 



At the Washington meeting of the American Forestry Congress, 

 speaking with regard to the reduction of duties on timber brought 

 into the United States from Canada, Mr. Shearman, of Brooklyn, 

 remarked : " There is but one class who would suffer from the 

 change ; and it is from that class that all the opposition comes. 

 The owners of timber lands know that their ' stumpage ' (which is 

 only another name for rent) would be reduced by the competition of 



