10 The Canadian Forestry Journal. 



Friday Afternoon. 



At the opening of Friday afternoon's session Mr. J. B. Miller, 

 Vice-President of the Ontario Lumbermen's Association, was 

 called on, and spoke briefly, favoring the appointment of a 

 Royal Commission for the investigation of forestry questions. 

 He congratulated Mr. White on his presentation of Ontario's case, 

 and expressed gratification at the figures presented. 



Prof. W. Mulford was then introduced and heartily received. 

 He represented, he said, three bodies, namely, the Michigan 

 Forestry Association, the Michigan University Foresters' Club 

 and the Michigan Forestry Commission. He considered that the 

 most pressing problems before governments and foresters to-day 

 were those of protection, taxation and devising of satisfactory 

 cutting methods. The problem of protection was pressing. The 

 problem of taxation was to devise some scheme of taxation 

 which should be equitable to all parties represented, particularly 

 to the private owner. In the U. S. National Forests ten per cent, 

 of the gross receipts from timber sales were handed over to the 

 counties in which the National Forests were located. The 

 reason for this was that the counties should not suffer from 

 having these reserves made; otherwise, the reserving of these 

 lands would impose a burden on the counties which would lose 

 the taxes on the lands reserved and so throw additional burdens 

 on the remaining lands. The problem in regard to the cutting 

 methods was to devise methods of cutting which should result in 

 natural reproduction and avoid the necessity of the expensive 

 operation of planting. 



Hon. W. C. Edwards was then introduced and spoke briefly. 

 After references to some of the papers and discussions, he went 

 on to speak particularly of the Rivers and Harbors Conference 

 and the Conservation Congress in Washington in December last, 

 which he had attended as the representative of the Canadian 

 Government, and read the letter which he had addressed to Sir 

 Wilfrid Laurier as his report on these. He spoke strongly of the 

 necessity of exploration and the estimating of timber on lands 

 about which no definite information was on record. The pro- 

 blems of reforestation and of location of settlers on timber limits 

 were calling for solution. He believed that the forests could be 

 so managed that they would reproduce satisfactorily and be all 

 the better for cutting. 



Ontario's Waste Land. 



The first paper presented at the session was that by Mr. 

 E. J. Zavitz on "Waste Land Planting in Ontario." Mr. Zavitz 

 estimated the aggregate area of woodlots in Ontario at 8,500 



