40 Canadian Forestry Journal 



i^overument. India, through the efforts of Sir Dietrich Brandis 

 now possesses a forestry service which is not only producing 

 excellent financial results, but is also working on lines that are 

 greatly benefiting the country in conserving its water supply 

 that was rapidly becoming exhausted. The United States 

 within the past few years has awakened to the necessity of action 

 and is now wisely expending large sums in the service, and there 

 is no reason why Canada with the timber wealth it possesses, 

 and with the advantages of Government ownershij) to which I 

 have referred, should not take a leading place among the nations 

 of the world in its forestry management, and this convention 

 which might be called a forest parliament can do very much by 

 resolution or otherwise to further this desirable end. 



In this connection there is just one more point that I would 

 like to submit for your consideration. It is one that I have had 

 in mind for some time and which I am fully persuaded could be 

 adopted without difficulty and would be greatly in the public 

 interest. It is this, that in all future patents of timbered land a 

 proviso should be inserted that at least 10% of the area con- 

 veyed should be left in timber ; that the timber growing thereon 

 should be the property of the patentee, but only to be cut under 

 the authority and supervision of the Government. I believe 

 such a reservation was made in some of the seignorial convey- 

 ances in Lower Canada, and the old Upper Canada Land Company 

 if I am not mistaken, made a similar provision in some of their 

 deeds. 



I have little time left to say anything on tree planting on 

 the plains which the Forestry Branch of the Department of the 

 Interior has started there in cooperation with the settlers, and 

 it is unnecessary that I should do so as Mr. Ross, the Assistant 

 Superintendent, will present a paper dealing with that branch 

 of our work. It is sufficient to say that when we have sent out 

 in the spring the nursery stock now ready for shipment we will 

 have distributed in all about 7,000,000 trees free of charge 

 to settlers living on the bare prairie. The system we have adopted 

 is meeting with gratifying success, and it is confidently predicted 

 it will prove of incalculable benefit to the great plains region. 



A number of the illustrations in the last annual report of 

 the Canadian Forestry Association were, by oversight, not 

 credited to the Forest Service of the United States, through whose 

 courtesy they were obtained by Dr. Judson F. Clark. 



