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to lie waste. There is another important matter referring to the Department of Agri- 

 culture and of Crown Lands, that is the providing of forest trees for the re-foresting 

 of farm lots. It seems to me that we should in some way mark our approval, not only 

 of the setting aside of these reservations by the Government but in undertaking to make 

 available these reservations and to re-forest these waste lands that we have in Ontario. 

 (Applause). 



Mr. LITTLE. I wish to commend in the highest manner possible the action of the 

 Government of this province in the last few years. It seems an entire change has 

 come over us and it is a grand one to look forward to. There is now some effort made 

 of a practical kind towards preserving the timber that we have, and I can say this, 

 that I have read a great deal of forestry literature during the last two or three months 

 during an enforced leisure at home, and of all the forestry literature that I read I do 

 not know anything that "equals in value the Keports of the Director of Forestry of the 

 Province of Ontario, Mr. Thomas Southworth. It is practical and the recommenda- 

 tions seem to have been put in such shape that the Government could not do otherwise 

 than carry them out. Not only that, but I am going further, and this is a bigger thing 

 than influencing the Government. He has actually induced the Toronto Globe to 

 become a forest protectionist. A gentleman here tells us that in 1871 he took some 

 action on forest protection. In looking over my forestry papers I came across a letter 

 written by my father in 1851, and I remember that the first forestry work I ever under- 

 took was copying that letter for him which was a protest against the views the Globe 

 then held with regard to forestry. The other day I read an editorial in the Globe 

 and I had to look several times to assure myself that it was the Globe I was reading. 



Mr. BERTRAM. Well, you know the old ed ; tor is dead. (LaughterX 



Mr. LITTLE. I do believe that the province .of Ontario now leads any part of 

 America in measures of forest conservation, and I have the greatest pleasure in getting 

 up and saying something in c'onnection with this resolution before the meeting. 



Professor GOODWIN. Mr. Chairman, as this is the Canadian Forestry Association, 

 I think that any resolution of that sort should embody some notice of the admirable 

 work that has been done by the Dominion. Why, the Dominion Government brought 

 into Canada the first trained forester, and I may say that Mr. Stewart, our very active 

 secretary, is doing a great work to-day over the Dominion of Canada. I know his 

 work because I follow hyn very closely and he is doing a great work in our North-west. 



The CHAIRMAN. It gives me great pleasure to put this resolution. I am sure it 

 will be adopted unanimously. Is it the pleasure of the meeting that this resolution 

 be adopted ? 



Mr. RATHBUN. While I heartily agree with the spirit of the resolution about to 

 be put, I still think that the question of more forest reserves is something that is very, 

 very far in the future. The lumbermen (I am speaking perhaps, personally, but at the 

 same time I think I am voicing the sentiments of the whole lumber trade) the lumber- 

 men have a grievance from which they are suffering, and it is a serious one. I hesitate 

 about mentioning it because I quite recognize that it is a matter of great delicacy, 



