DISCUSSION ON FORESTRY IN SCOTLAND. I 35 



land before he could get supplies, and every fifty miles he 

 passed he would find plenty of land capable of growing timber, 

 with not a tree upon it. I think we have entirely ourselves 

 to blame. Our representatives in Parliament are not doing 

 anything like their duty. The question of afforestation is 

 certainly not a vote-catching one, and I believe that has a 

 great deal to do with the way it has been neglected. We only 

 want the Government to give us the money, and we will find 

 the land and the men, and we will demonstrate to the world 

 what Scotland can do. There is not a country in the world 

 that has done less for afforestation than our own. This is a 

 disgrace to Scotsmen." 



Mr H. M. Cadell of Grange, Linlithgow, said : — " I have been 

 over in Canada lately, and I travelled from Nova Scotia to 

 Klondyke. It has been said in Canada that half of the people 

 who govern Canada come from Scotland. Instead of staying at 

 home and energetically developing their own resources, they go 

 abroad and show their native capacity. Those who develop 

 Canadian resources get a lot of assistance from the Government, 

 and we ought to kick until we get more encouragement and 

 help in afforestation and the development of our resources at 

 home. We should not sit down humbly and quietly as we do 

 like decent, honest, and well-behaved people, and submissively 

 let Ireland and England get all the plums. Look at the amount 

 we contribute to the Imperial revenue in comparison with 

 Ireland. Nobody in Scotland is any good at asking boldly. 

 If our ancestors had behaved like this there would never 

 have been any Bannockburn at all. " Ye have not because 

 ye ask not " is a text that we are too apt to forget on this 

 side of the Tweed. 



" In the Island of Raasay a large seam of ironstone has lately 

 been discovered and is now being worked, and if this new local 

 industry develops it may require a good deal of coniferous 

 timber. Our coal is getting exhausted and will become perma- 

 nently dearer, so that we should also turn our attention to the 

 growing of trees that will make good fuel in the future, such as 

 beech. We should find out the best places and grow different 

 kinds of trees and not confine attention to conifers entirely, as 

 they have less fuel value than hardwoods, and may as time 

 goes on not be needed so much for colliery purposes." 



The Chairman said: — "This resolution has been moved, 



