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sand for white oak loaded on car at the point of shipment. To- 

 day white oak was seUing at $30 per thousand on the stump. 

 Mr. Zavitz urged that settlers should be debarred from 

 entering lands which were only fit for forestry. The policy and 

 method of cultivating trees in wet lands of old Ontario would be 

 a splendid object-lesson. 



Hon. A. A. C. LaRiviere, representing the Government of the 

 Province of Manitoba, expressed the great interest of that 

 province in forestry, and stated that the government was now 

 establishing an agricultural college on a large scale, which would 

 afford means of education in tree culture and forestry. 



Mr. J. D. Allan, President of the Toronto Board of Trade, 

 stated that the report that would be carried back to the Board 

 by the delegates it had sent was that the forest is one of the most 

 important assets we have in this country, and that it must 

 receive greater attention at our hands than it has in the past. 

 Mr. Allan gave an interesting sketch of what he had seen of 

 forest administration in Russia and Scotland. 



Hon. Mr. Tessier, Minister of Agriculture, conveyed greetings 

 from the Province of Quebec, and President G. C. Creelman, of the 

 Ontario Agricultural College, and Mr. A. P. Stevenson, of Virden. 

 Man., also took part in the discussion. 



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THURSDAY, 1 ItH JANUARY. 



Hon. W. C. Edwards, President of the Quebec Limit Holders 

 Association, called attention to the great importance of the 

 forests for their beauty, for their influence on the water supply 

 and on agriculture. Speaking of the statement sometimes made 

 that the forests of Canada are inexhaustible, or on the other hand, 

 that they have all been destroyed, he took the medium position, 

 and thought that a great deal could be done to preserve the 

 forests. The chief agents of destruction have been forest fires, 

 railways and illegitimate settlement. The all-important matter 

 is to keep fire out of the forests, next to have proper government 

 regulations, and next there must be careful cutting on the part of 

 the lumbermen. In so far as the cutting of timber is concerned, 

 my system would be that every mill owner should build his mill 

 in proportion to the growth of his limits and cut annually the 

 growth. If that is done, and fires kept out. the limits of Canada 

 will never disappear. 



As to the question of growth and the possibility of restoring 

 the forest, my observation is that the growth varies very much in 

 various districts, that in some places growth is very slow and in 



