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to take up this question without delay. The parent Association would thus be in 

 constant touch with the sentiment throughout the whole Dominion. Perhaps, as 

 the parent Society is at Ottawa, it would not necessitate branches in the Provinces 

 of Ontario and Quebec. 



It is satisfactory to learn that Newfoundland has a Forestry Association well 

 under way. 



I would call attention to a condition in the Regulations re licenses and permits 

 to cut timber on Dominion Lands in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, the North- 

 west Territories and within twenty miles on either side of the C. P. R. in the Prov- 

 ince of British Columbia, that the licensee shall keep in operation for at least six 

 months in each year a saw mill capable of cutting 1,000 feet in every twenty-four 

 hours for every two and a half square miles under license. This is, in my opinion, 

 an undesirable condition, and tends in the contrary direction to that of an en- 

 lightened forestry policy. To me it seems that it would be better to raise the 

 annual ground rent and spend more on fire protection in the northern parts of 

 the above mentioned territories than to make cutting compulsory. The timber 

 is going fast enough. 



My attention has been called to the large shipments of small spruce trees from 

 the Province of Quebec, particularly in the Sherbrooke district, to the United States 

 for Christmas trees. They run from three to eight feet in height and sell for from 

 ten to twenty-five cents each in Canada. This trade should be prohibited, as it 

 has assumed large proportions, trees going as farsouth as Pennsylvania. It appears 

 that the Commissioner for the New York State Forest Fish and Game Commission 

 has drawn public attention to the grave consequences that must result from this 

 great destruction of young trees in New York State. 



Canada has immense forest areas and a proportionately smaller number of men 

 to protect them against fire than the United States, although of late years more 

 .active measures have been taken by all the Provinces against this great enemy 

 of our forests. 



I think it right to say something on the much discussed question of an export 

 duty on pulpwood, which, of late, has been brought rominently to the front by 

 President Roosevelt's proposal to take the duty off wood pulp in return for free 

 pulpwood from Canada. I believe this proposal might justly be made more fav- 

 ourable to Canada by lowering the duties on paper, as the freight on wood pulp is 

 always a serious factor in its shipment. 



I firmly believe that an arrangement of this nature is more desirable than an 

 export duty on pulpwood; having advocated at our Ottawa Convention, in January, 

 1906, a policy of reciprocity as opposed to one of reprisal and I have no doubt 



