NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 165 



CHAIRMAN Suppose you owned the land in fee, Mr. Connolly, and 

 were cutting it yourself, would you leave those tops in the woods ? 



MR. CONNOLLY No, we do not, the people I am representing have 

 a good deal of soil right ; but, on the other hand, I think that really the 

 Government has no right to collect stumpage on stuff' that would be left to 

 rot in the woods, unless we go to the expense of taking it out. Why should 

 we pay for stuff that would be left under your present regulations ? 



MR. CHAS. E. FISH With regard to gauging the trees by the tops, 

 another reason which occurred to me that was not mentioned, is this, that a 

 great many trees are what we call stalked in the woods, they are larger 

 around the butt in proportion to the height than others, and when you find 

 a tree large at the butt, it is generally smaller at the top. Why this is, per- 

 haps scientific men will tell us. But one other reason is the last speaker 

 says it will cost the merchantable lumber more where you attempt to bring 

 out the tops. Now, I have been given a practical illustration this winter of 

 an operator, who operated very extensively, and left all the tops in the 

 woods. The matter was brought to his attention, and he is back this year 

 operating. The operation will amount to close on to a million, and this year 

 he will bring out the tops ; and when the operation was figured out, he in- 

 forms me it is paying, and will pay handsomely, because, although the tops 

 bring only a small price, yet, when he is there with his outfit and under all 

 this "expense, the small price he makes, when it is added to the large price 

 for the merchantable lumber, it gives a better price than when he left the 

 tops out of the reckoning altogether. 



Prof. Austin Cary, of Brunswick, Me., now of Harvard University, read 

 the following paper : 



FOREST POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES. 



The subject assigned to me, by your Surveyor - General, is a very 

 larcre one, and yet the policy of those Countries in which forestry, by 

 general consent, is considered to hold its true place may be summarised in a 

 few words In brief, it consists of Government ownership of a large 

 of the wooded area, and that administered under a system which com- 

 bines the principles of science, and of good business management, m 

 With the exception of Great Britain, all the strong and enhghteneo 



-one. 



