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tinned in Eastern Canada. This is a 

 serious blow at what has been a prime 

 and perfectly sound principle in the 

 practice and plans of forestry in 

 America. The first and most valuable 

 choice of trees for reforestation pur- 

 poses is removed from the list. At 

 all events, to plant white pine in 

 Eastern Canada is almost certain to 

 bring loss 'And disappointment and 

 with that a lowering of the planting 

 enthusiasm. 



If we can keep the disease out of 

 northern Ontario and Quebec, white 

 pine could be safety planted there 

 only if it were obtained from stock 

 grown in the North or West. 



5. Whether or not white pine 

 plantations, of which there are several 

 in Canada, should be annually in- 

 spected or eradicated, should be de- 

 termined entirely by the circum- 

 stances of the case. Where eradica- 

 tions are effected it would seem 

 desirable that the government should 

 replant with other species of trees. 



6. There is no evidence yet, so far 

 as I know, that the blister rust has 

 been carried to America in European 



currant or gooseberry stocks. Yet 

 there is a possibility that it could be, 

 and as long as that uncertainty pre- 

 vails, these stocks should l)e placed 

 under the same embargo conditions 

 as the pine. 



Guarding the West 



7. There is absolutely no question 

 in my mind but that the various 

 cultivated varieties of Ribes, and 

 especially black and red currants, are 

 the most potent agencies in the spread 

 of the blister rust. There is a free 

 and extensive movement of these 

 commodities throughout Ontario and 

 the other eastern provinces, and the 

 disease is very readily spread from 

 these plants to others of their ow^n 

 kind as well as to the pine. It is 

 equally certain that the disease can 

 be spread to the West in the same way 

 This opens up one of the difficult 

 features in the situation, the only 

 solution of w^hich lies in an embargo 

 for the present on the shipment of 

 currants and gooseberries into North- 

 ern Ontario and into Western Canada 

 except through the Minister of Lands, 



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