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lightest seeds, such as poplar and birch, take root and grow. I have seen 

 where green trees have been burned and the ground re-seeded, and the green 

 trees are again growing. 



MR. ELIHU STEWART Referring to the question of reproduction, 

 I think any person who has looked over burnt tracts will notice that, as a 

 rule, the next growth is poplar and birch, and the reason is that these seeds 

 are light and will fly over half a county. I have noticed everywhere in the 

 country the first growth after a fire is poplar and birch ; but if there are any 

 seeds of the spruce or pine left, after a while they will come up and with the 

 shade will after a time overtop the others and kill them. In the case of the 

 pine and spruce, if there are no seed trees left planting would be necessary, 

 and in no other way could they be reproduced. But in many cases, in the 

 West, we see that reproduction going on. I have myself seen pine growing 

 again where it had been swept by fires. 



In Germany, even in the Black Forest, they practise two ways of re- 

 producing one the natural regeneration, and the other by planting. It is 

 not all done by planting even there, although planting is advocated as being 

 quicker and better. 



THE SURVEYOR-GENERAL I would like some .suggestions with 

 regard to the scale or log rule used, outside of the scale in use in our Prov- 

 ince, which only provides for a scale down to 11 inches. 



MR. H. M. PRICE When the Province of Quebec took up the question 

 of a new system of log measurement I was then interested in the Montmor- 

 ency Mills, and they asked us to carry out some experiments as to the differ- 

 ence between logs sawed into deals and logs sawed into boards, and after 

 the experiments were carried out they took a compromise between the two 

 measurements as a fair rule by which the lumbermen were to pay stumpage. 



Mr. H. M. Price, of Quebec, Vice-President of the Canadian Forestry 

 Association, then made the following address : 



Until I arrived here I did not know I would be called upon to make any 

 address, and, therefore, I am unprepared, but I am going to make a few re- 

 marks based on the subject now under discussion, and also on the question of 

 pulp-wood, in which I am interested, because I have had the honor of being 

 the president of the Pulp Wood Association of the Province of Quebec. 



