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Reforestation is being encouraged in every possible way and a 

 provincial nursery for forest trees has been established at Berthier- 

 ville, capable of producing millions of infant trees. Since its 

 establishment more than 1,500,000 infant trees have been shipped 

 to the lumber companies, private individuals, scholastic institu- 

 tions, etc. With all due precautions against forest fires and with 

 a generous encouragement of the reforestation movement, there 

 is reason to look forward to an increased rather than -a lessened 

 area of forest growth, so essential to the national wealth and the 

 conservation of our water supply and fish and game. 



There are several forestry reserves in our province. We have 

 also three fish and game reserves: the Laurentian Park, 2531 

 square miles; Trembling Mountain Park, 14,750 acres, and Gaspe 

 Park, 2,500 square miles. The first one is already organized and 

 the others also will soon be organized. 



I feel that I should not conclude these remarks without con- 

 gratulating you upon the final adoption of the treaty, between the 

 rulers of our respective countries, for the protection of migratory 

 birds, in the passage of which considerable interest was man- 

 ifested by the Department over which I have the honor to preside. 

 Our laws have been for many years past in unison with the pro- 

 visions of this treaty, and if they had not been so it would not have 

 taken long to have made them so. 



