428 Canada. 



Attorney-General acting as head) administers the 

 lands. Scalers or cullers attend to the measuring of 

 the cut. The revenue derived by this system by all 

 the provinces amounts now to round 4.5 million 

 dollars per year, Ontario leading Avith about 20,000 

 square miles now under license, (mostly pine), pro- 

 ducing in 1910, $1,835,000 ; the yearly average for 

 the decade ending 1910 was 1)4 million dollars, 

 and some 41 million dollars have altogether 

 accrued since 1867; Quebec, with over 70,000 square 

 miles under license, (mostly in spruce,) producing 

 only about $700,000, nearly 30 million dollars 

 having accrued during the 43 years, or at the rate 

 of $418 per square mile, two-thirds of which from 

 dues. 



Since land for settlement is, as in the United 

 States, obtainable by homestead and other en- 

 tries, a good many fraudulent applications under 

 guise of settlement have curtailed the revenue, 

 until now closer scrutiny of the fitness of land for 

 settlement is made. 



The retention of the lands- by the government is 

 naturally a feature which would permit and should 

 have earlier induced conservative forestry methods, 

 but the immediate revenue interest has had and still 

 has a more potent influence than considerations of 

 the future. 



4. Development of Forest Policy. 



The impetus to introduce conservative features 

 seems. ,to .have largely come through the influence of 

 the forestry movement in the United States, and, al- 



