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depleted for a nominal stumpage, and the timber floated across to' a foreign country 

 to be manufactured there. I hope I shall live to see the day when an export duty 

 will be put on all timber cut on Crown Lands, and when the people of the United 

 States will get their morning news from newspapers published in the United States, 

 printed on paper made in Canada from the products of the Canadian woods. (Ap- 

 plause). 



The PRESIDENT. I might answer Mr. Meighen with regard to the Transcon- 

 tinental difficulty. There was a meeting held the other day at Ottawa, where 

 the representatives of Quebec Province discussed measures to prevent fires along 

 the lines of the Grand Trunk Pacific, and I believe Ontario and New Brunswick 

 were also represented, but I am not sure whether the Western Provinces had 

 representatives. As a result of that meeting I think you can rest assured that 

 the Grand Trunk Pacific will take the necessary measures to prevent fires. I 

 do not know whether these measures will be satisfactory to Mr. Meighen and per- 

 haps he had better take an interest in that personally. But I am sure that the 

 Hon. Mr. Parent, the president of the Transcontinental Railway Commission, 

 would give him the fullest information. 



Mr. ZAVITZ. A considerable portion of this programme to-day has been de- 

 voted to forestry in relation to agriculture. I would like to point out what has 

 been done by the Department of Agriculture in Ontario. In the matter of re-plant- 

 ing we have a co-operative scheme to furnish the farmer with material to plant his 

 waste farm lands. This at present is supplied free of charge, the recipient only 

 having to pay the express on the trees. We offer these special inducements more 

 from an educational standpoint. What we want to do is to establish through 

 Ontario typical plantations on waste areas in order to show their possibilities to the 

 farmer. The average Ontario farmer thinks of planting waste land by digging 

 a big hole and putting a tree into it. I warit to put up a small argument for re- 

 afforestation or the planting of waste lands. I am referring more particularly 

 to agricultural work, but may not tKis be perfectly practicable on a much larger 

 scale? We are supplying chiefly white and Scotch pine, red pine and jack pine, 

 native seeds as far as possible, and the average farmer could plant at least two 

 acres a year. In this way, last year, we sent out 200,000 trees, a very small start. 

 This season, however, we hope to send out half a million, the object being to dis- 

 tribute these representative plantations throughout the Province as widely as pos- 

 sible. 



Now, as to the cost of planting and its practicability. At the first Forestry 

 Convention I attended a man would be very foolish to talk about forestry, but 

 the change is gradually coming. The average waste land in Ontario or absolute 

 forest soil can be replanted for something like $5.00 an acre, more or less. But 

 take $5.00 an acre as the actual cost, I would like to let any business man put out 



