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the seed grows in Ontario and Quebec the thing can be done with very little expense, 

 and if it could be done by people who would maKe a business of it, I think it would be 

 a paying business. I think it well to give you my experience. It is a very small one, 

 but shows that if the matter is taken up in a thorough business way it can be done and 

 done successfully, all wLo use the seed can get it, and whoever takes it up can make 

 money out of it. 



The CHAIRMAN. It will be noticed that the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Hon. 

 Mr. Davis, has done us the honour of being present this afternoon, and we would like 

 to hear a few words from him. 







Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President and gentlemen, I am exceedingly glad to have the 



opportunity of being present with you this morning and this afternoon for a short 

 time to show that I appreciate the excellent work which is being done by the Forestry 

 Association of the Dominion of Canada. I am glad also to be here to listen to the 

 excellent papers that have been iead to-day, so full of interest and practical suggestions 

 which cannot help aiding very much in advancing the work which you are specially 

 interested in, and which I think I may say every citizen of this Province and this 

 Dominion ought to be exceedingly interested in. (Hear, hear). Perhaps in the 

 position which I hold for the time being I have some responsibility, as far as the 

 Province of Ontario is concerned, in dealing with the forest reserve matters in the 

 larger sphere. Mr. Bertram, who gave us such an excellent paper, was good enough 

 to make ax slight reference to what has been done in the way of setting apart permanent 

 forest reserves. I think that most of us do not appreciate what that work will mean 

 in years to come. In a comparatively short time, within two or three years, there have 

 been set apart of virgin area unsuitable for agricultural purposes in this Province, 

 9,000 square miles of territory for the purpose of permanent crown reserves, to be 

 used in the interests of the people and for the production of valuable timber for all 

 time to come. (Applause). We have been engaged for some little time in preparing 

 i.-i: illations for handling the timber of these reserves. I need not say to practical men 

 that this is a question that requires, a good deal of careful consideration and due delib- 

 eration, that when we arrive at a conclusion, it will be one that will be practical and 

 useful, and from which the people of this Province will derive the best results. I 

 hope that, ere long, we will have these regulations completed and in shape to put into 

 operation. Of course there is no great hurry as we are not thinking of disposing in 

 the immediate future of additional timber. 



Then, there are many features in connection with forestry outside of the perman- 

 ent forest reserves which I have referred to. We are trying to do a little in another 

 way. That is re-foresting reserves that have been cut over in the past, and which 

 have fallen back into the hands of the Crown, and I am endeavouring to make special 

 inquiry through our proper officers in order that a thorough examination may be made 

 in various parts of the Province of areas of this description. Wherever we find such 

 areas suitably large enough to be worth while, and which are not suitable for agricul- 

 tural purposes, these will be set apart as reserves for the purpose of re-forestry, and, 

 in that way, will be of great advantage in years to come. (Applause). I would like 

 to a.*b a question or two of Mr. Bertram with reference to his paper. There are many 



