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up, Father Burke, except that I happen to be very particularly related to these three 

 bodies. I have the honour to be a graduate of Queen's, of holding a degree from 

 Toronto, and being a professor of the Macdonald Institute, which is affiliated with the 

 Agricultural College. And I might add to this, that I have on several occasions made 

 some reputation as a peacemaker, and it just occurred to me as gentlemen were speak- 

 ing that if the universities of the province cannot agree as to what ought to be done 

 we have a staff of very able and very, very unassuming and very self-sacrificing men 

 up at Guelph wonderfully well acquainted with the practical side of the science on 

 which forestry is based. I suppose that our professors, through their relations to the 

 agricultural interest, have paid more attention to the practical application of the 

 biological sciences than most professors in merely academic institutions. It just 

 occurred to me that really, if these gentlemen cannot agree, in my capacity as peace- 

 maker I was going to suggest that possibly the professors of the staff, the president, 

 and the Department of Agriculture would agree to settle the question by founding 

 a nice, modest little school of forestry at Guelph in connection with the School of 

 Agriculture. And our friend Professor Roth will remember that beautiful little 

 nursery story that comes down to us from German books, the story of a poor little girl 

 in the home who washed the dishes and swept the floors and got the meals while her 

 two sisters upstairs were quarrelling most thoroughly over the question of frivolities 

 and balls ; and would it be stretching the parallel too far by saying that that little in- 

 stitution up at Guelph has been doing a noble work while some of her sisters have been 

 quarrelling a little over this matter, and so perhaps the slipper that would not fit either 

 of those other sisters might fit this little agricultural college at Guelph. 



Mr. BERTRAM. I have given a great deal of consideration to the matter of the 

 distribution of white pine seed, and that is one of the questions I would ask the lum- 

 bermen present to take up and see if they can see how far the white pine seed blows. 

 I am not speaking about anything else but that. I do not think it was quite correct 

 what was said about the spruce trees, but the white pine only comes to maturity every 

 second year, or every four or five years. In the fall of the year the white pine cone 

 opens and one of the reasons why you get a distribution far and wide over the country, 

 and which enables the white pine to perpetuate itself over wide areas is (this is 

 theoretical, rather, but I do not think there is any other way by which it can be done), 

 that the white pine cone opens in the fall of the year when the storms are on and the 

 seed two of them together get blown out of those positions where they are in the 

 cone and are carried away by the winds far and near over the country. That is the 

 only way white pine seed can distribute itself, because I have examined sections of 

 territory showing where it has carried for a mile. That is the only way it can be done, 

 because if it remains in the cone until March, as Mr. Joly said, well then it would not 

 distribute itself at all. 



Father BURKE. It does not stay there until that time. 



Mr. BERTRAM. What is not blown down by the wind is eaten by the squirrels. 

 You do not get anything at all. 



The CHAIRMAN. I can vouch for that. 



