298 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [Vov. VIII. 
It is apparent, therefore, that our need for a College of Forestry 
depends on the probable demand by employers for the services of its 
graduates, and a canvas of the situation in this regard will be of interest. 
In this I shall refer to Ontario with which I am more familiar than with 
the rest of Canada. 
The forest lands of Ontario for the purposes of this discussion, may 
be divided into three classes: those under a practically perpetual lease to 
lumbermen; those under lease to lumbermen for & fixed period; and those 
still held by the Crown free from lease or “‘license to cut”’ as it is usually 
termed. 
The first and second classes comprise about twenty-one thousand 
square miles, or about thirteen and a half million acres of forest lands. 
On some of these areas the encroachments of agricultural settlement will 
some time cause the abandonment of the lease or license, but by far the 
greater part of this area is not adapted for agriculture, and will or 
should continue to be timber producing. These lands, as stated, are 
under license to individuals or companies, and the nature of the lease 
is such as to leave the control and management of them almost wholly 
in the hands of the lessees, subject to the payment to the State of a nominal 
ground rent varying from $3.00 to $5.00 per square mile, annually, and 
a stumpage charge of $1.00 to $2.00 per thousand feet as the timber 
is cut. The State may or may not some time receive a greater share of . 
the value of the timber on these lands than at present, but in any event 
the non-agricultural areas under license should be properly worked with 
a view to perpetual recurrence of crops of the most valuable sans of trees. 
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To this end technically trained men are necessary. &B S's rE = & is | 
The men or companies operating these limits employ many thousands 
of men with a very large number of superintendents, rangers and fore- 
men. 
In 1903, with a view to ascertain the chances of employment for 
forestry graduates, I wrote to a number of the leading lumbermen of 
the Province, asking if, in the event of a properly equipped College of 
Forestry being established, they could find employment for its graduates. 
Replies were received from all of them, and there was a striking unanimity 
of opinion among them to the effect that the graduates of a College of 
Forestry would be of little use to them owing to their want of praccies 
knowledge in the bush, sawmill and lumber vard. | 
I am glad to be able to say that one of these men has so far changed 
his opinion as to tell me recently that he proposed to engage a forester 
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