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same plan of co-operation and education which has already proved so successful in 

 the oo-oper.'itive experiments in agriculture and horticulture carried on by the Ex- 

 perimental Union. 



Farmers who wish to improve their wood lots, to establish shelter belts, or to 

 start forest plantations will b.e given an opportunity to co-operate with us at the 

 college, and young trees suitable for the purpose will be furnished from the college 

 nursery to give them a start. As with the co-operative agricultural and horticultural 

 experiments which we are now carrying on all over the country, this material will not 

 be given away indiscriminately, but will be furnished on condition that the recipient 

 agrees to follow the printed directions furnished with it; will properly care for it; and 

 will report the results at the end of each season as long as may be required. 



The trees selected for this work will be some of the most valuable forest species of 

 the conifers and deciduous trees, and they will be sent out when quite small, so that 

 they may be sent cheaply in large quantities, and can be grown for another year or 

 more if necessary in nursery rows by the experimenter who receives them. 



In this way we hope to encourage the establishment of little private nurseries all 

 over the country where the farmers may raise their own forest seedlings. With 

 many species such as the oaks, hickories, walnuts, which naturally have very strong tap 

 roots and are better of being grown from seed without transplanting, it will no doubt 

 be an advantage to furnish the seed rather than the seedlings. 



In conclusion I may say that by agitation, co-operation, and education we hope 

 to be actively engaged in solving some of the forest problems which are facing us in 

 Ontario to-day, and whether or not we succeed in solving them all, posterity will profit 

 by our efforts. 



Mr. LITTLE. As I happened to be born in -the southern part of Ontario, in Cale- 

 donia, township of Seneca, county of Haldimand, I can corroborate everything Mr 

 Hutt has said on this subject. To show you the importance of this, I might say that 

 fifty-one years ago my father purchased for one hundred dollars four million feet of 

 pine timber within a mile of where I was born, and this small grove of pine of about 

 fifty acres would be worth, if standing to-day, over $100,000. Now, that was not a 

 place to grow cabbage and corn ; it was a first-class place to grow timber. It was just 

 a sand knoll of little value for agriculture. When I was born that section of the country 

 was nearly all a natural growth of timber and some of the timber of an enormous size. 

 To-day I am told by, the agricultural report that there is only five or six per cent of 

 timber in the township of Seneca or Oneida. In this section of the country my father 

 lumbered for about thirty-five years, and we sometimes talk about pine timber getting 

 scarce. Well, pine timber does not seem to be getting scarce. I find they cut even now 

 about four million pine logs in the Province of Quebec, and I do not know but Mr. 

 White will tell you that they cut pretty close on that number in the Province of 

 Ontario. 



Mr. WHITE. How many, Mr. Little? 



Mr. LITTLE. Four million pieces. 



Mr. WHITE. Oh, yes; seven hundred millions of feet or over last year. 



Mr. LITTLE. Well, now, that does not show that pine timber is getting very 

 scarce, but there is some difference between quantity and quality, and I want to tell 

 you this: My father cut more clear lumber in one year from this section of Canada 

 than was sawn in the whole province of Quebec last year. And I .say, further, that ten 



