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4. The strictest regulations should accompany each lease, 

 with a view to preventing damage to, or the destruction of the 

 smaller trees. 



The Government, with such regulations might possibly obtain 

 a smaller upset price per square mile at auction for limits, but 

 not necessarily so, as the smaller area sold would enable the 

 lumberman to cut within the shorter time all the merchantable 

 timber. The restriction to cutting such trees as are fifty inches or 

 more in girth, would leave the younger timber standing, and the 

 twenty-five years respite would afford time for this younger timber 

 to attain merchantable size. 



The Dominion Government has made an effort to encourage 

 tree culture in Manitoba, by making a free grant of 160 acres of 

 land in the prairie districts to each person who undertakes to 

 plant a portion of the property with trees under specified 

 conditions, but the effort has not met with very much success 

 thus far. 



( When compiling the large Map of the Dominion of Canada which was sub- 

 sequently sent to the Paris Exhibition, the Department of Public Works requested 

 a loan of this Map, and permission to use it in the completion of their own was 

 granted, consequently the lines on both will be found to correspond.) 



