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In response to the toast of " Canada," Mr. St. John, M.P.P., said there were 

 three possibilities ahead of Canada annexation, independence, and unity with the 

 Empire but only one probability, which was that so long as the Union Jack floated 

 over the Empire, Canada would be a part of that Empire, and no inconsiderable rart 

 either. As years rolled on they would, heart to heart and man to man, be knitted 

 closer and closer together by that Imperial tie. He referred to the statement of the 

 possibilities of timber production in Ontario as recently made by Mr. Southworth, and 

 advocated the cutting of only the increment of growth and the saving of the wood 

 capital. 



Mr. Stock, M.P.P., in replying to the tojtst of " Our Legislators," paid tribute to 

 those leaders of thought and research who were just a little in advance of the masses 

 of the people, those who pointed the way and educated their fellows, finally earning 

 their gratitude. In that class he placed the foresters assembled around the table. 

 Their greater foresight warned them that the denudation of forest areas that had taken 

 place in Ontario contained a great element of injury to the country and they should 

 strongly impress their views upon the legislators who have it in their power to pass 

 laws which would aid the work both educationally and financially and help spread the 

 knowledge so essential to the conservation of the forests of the land. 



Mr. Bertram, in speaking to the toast, "Our Pioneers; the Lumberman and the 

 Settler," said that last century was for the United States; this century was for Canada, 

 and forward they would go. They could grow grain; they had immense natural ad- 

 vantages in manufacturing and shipping; and they had unlimited forests. He was 

 proud to say that in his own occupation he was a forester, not a lumberman, because 

 he proposed only to cut from year to year the accretion to the forest over which he 

 had the right to cut. He urged that it was the first duty of the lumberman to save 

 his small timber, to hold on to it as if it were gold itself and it was more than gold. 



Hon. John Dryden, Minister of Agriculture, in responding to the same toast, 

 dealt more particularly with the settlers' point of view. Speaking nationally he said 

 we were just in the beginning of things in Canada, and it would be better for Can- 

 adians if they had a little more of the spirit of the early pioneers who worked not for 

 themselves, but for their children. With a little of that spirit the Forestry Associa- 

 tion would move along very rapidly indeed. With reference to the Agricultural 

 College at Guelph, he said his ambition was not alone to have a farm at the college, 

 but to do something in various parts of the province, so that the lessons to be learned 

 would be before the people all the time. He would not have the Government do every- 

 thing, lut would try to induce the people to do things for themselves. 



Professor Roth, in a most interesting address, sketched the history of the de- 

 velopment of Forestry in Germany from the beginnings in the hunting forest to the 

 highly specialized and scientific methods of the present day. 



The speeches of the evening were all in the happiest vein and the function was 

 most enjoyable. 



