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Educational efforts to solicit trade for our products in the Old Land 

 and to combat misrepresentations that have been made against our woods 

 will be continued, it is hoped, to the end that a new and important trade 

 avenue will be created. 



What effect British preference in tariffs will have on Canadian markets 

 remains to be seen. Ontario's exports to the United States have suffered, 

 but the exclusion of Canadian lumber from American markets may well have 

 a boomerang effect, by virtue of tariff adjustments against United States 

 products by other British Dominions, and in the ultimate become of great value 

 to Canadian exporters in consequence. 



Increased use of Canadian timber in Great Britain under the Ottawa 

 Agreement is bound to come. No doubt a swing from foreign sources of 

 supply will come, but it is too much to expect it to become evident over- 

 night. 



Less than 15% of Great Britain's timber needs are homegrown, and it 

 is surely to be hoped that the Ottawa Conference will eventually prove to 

 have been a boon to our timber trade. 



One hundred-and-seven years ago this Department, dealing with timber 

 in this Province, made its first sale. In the interim Ontario timber has enjoyed 

 much activity on the British market. It has also suffered adversity through 

 changing conditions, and the Ontario industry has suffered severely in the 

 last three or four years. 



Tariff adjustment, however, may well increase United States consump- 

 tion of Ontario timber; adaptation of British needs and methods to Ontario 

 sizes and quality may accomplish the same result. 



In addition to this the domestic market has only one way to go. The 

 development of our Province can only continue, and its development definitely 

 involves the use of our own products. That development has been retarded, 

 it is true, but the restoration of normal business conditions cannot fail to 

 stimulate the Ontario forest products industries, which in turn will contribute 

 their share to employment and their own market, with obvious results. 



The pulpwood industry during the last six months has shown an improved 

 tone, and plans now being projected by some of the leading companies tend 

 quite clearly to a substantial increase in the cut on Crown areas, with a cor- 

 responding purchase from settlers. 



Quantities Cut 



Appendix No. 8 details the types and quantities of timber cut during 

 the year. Red and White Pine accounted for only 13,245,846 ft. B.M., which 

 was less than half of that cut in 1932, the lowest production in many years. 

 Jack Pine was operated in the log to the extent of nearly Eight Million Feet 

 B.M. only, as against over Thirty Million Feet B.M. for the previous year. 

 Between Fourteen and Fifteen Million feet of other lumber, including mostly 

 hardwood, was covered by operations. 



These figures cover the material take for boom purposes. 



