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Mr. WILMOT seconded the resolution. There was no 
doubt that this paper was of a novel character as connected 
with fish culture, for he was quite aware that it had not 
been discussed before in any public manner, but he might 
be pardoned for mentioning that on two or three occasions 
on sending reports to the Government of Canada he had 
expressed his views that the clearing of the forests had 
been one of the principal causes of the destruction of 
salmon in the Province of Ontario. He could speak from 
experience in the matter, on account of salmon being very 
numerous in a stream that ran through his property. 
Before the forests were cleared off, salmon and the better 
kinds of fishes were there in vast numbers, but as the 
trees were cleared off the water changed its temperature, 
it became less in quantity, and the consequence was they 
had lost all those valuable fish. He should not attribute 
it wholly to the want of trees, but that had been one of 
the principal agencies. Man, with his destructive engines, 
had of course aided by killing the parent fish when laying 
its eggs in those streams, but there was no doubt that 
the want of sufficient shade and coldness of the water for 
the fish to live and breed, was also an important element, 
because these higher breeds of fish were always found in 
cold waters. So important was it, that for the last two 
or three years he had set out a large number of trees 
round the pond where he was carrying on fish culture, 
and found it very beneficial, and he had often noticed the 
fish run underneath the shade of the trees on hot days, 
the temperature being lower there than out in the open 
stream. He had always contended that farming, forestry, 
and fish culture should go together, because one aided 
the other. Forestry aided agriculture, because if the whole 
forest was cut away the rainfall was interfered with, and 
