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put an export duty on such logs. He smiled and said that we in Canada could do 

 so if we wished. 



Not long ago the Ontario Government put an export duty on logs, and owing 

 to that the mills in Wisconsin have had to go elsewhere to get their logs. What 

 is the result? On the St. Lawrence River, they are loading vessels with spruce logs, 

 taking them through the locks, up through the St. Clair River, right through to 

 Lake Michigan, to Appelton, Wis., fully a thousand miles. The cost of transpor- 

 tation for all that distance is almost as much as the value of the logs where they 

 were purchased. I think that in itself shows the wisdom of the course taken by 

 the Government of Ontario. Instead of the logs being taken from here to those 

 points to be turned into wood pulp, we have at Sault Ste. Marie and the Spanish 

 River, great industries manufacturing enormous quantities of wood into paper 

 every day. Also at Parry Sound, we have large lumber mills that are absolutely 

 in existence on account of that policy being in force. And if you go to Saginaw 

 and Bay City, in Michigan, you will find that the great bulk of their mills is closed 

 down owing to the same cause. 



Rev. ROBERT CAMPBELL. For the information of Dr. Bell I would say that 

 the Kentucky coffee plant flourishes on the island of Montreal. I myself have 

 samples of it six inches long. I also listened to the remarks of Mr. Armstrong who 

 said that the preservation of the forests was necessary for saving our birds and game. 

 There is another phase of life that he did not mention, namely, the flora, in which 

 I am as much interested as in the birds. Everybody knows the floral beauties of 

 America depend upon the forests for their continued existence, and that they contri- 

 bute largely to the upholding of animal life, because every plant has its animal 

 which it feeds, so that the entomologist and botanist have to conduct their studies 

 together, every plant having its parasite and these insects feed the singing birds, the 

 song birds feed the birds of prey, and other animals, so that the plant life is really 

 at the root of all kinds of animal life. 



Reverend T. HUNTER Bo YD. I have just one word to say on a matter to 

 which I think forther attention might be called in Mr. Armstrong's paper, and that 

 is the allusion to the children. Possibly owing to the fact that this Association meets 

 in a mercantile centre, and in a building devoted to the interests of business, it 

 may be that the other end has not received the attention it deserves. I believe 

 the Board of Directors of this Association has under consideration a scheme of 

 bringing these matters before you, and before the boyhood of this country. 



Dr. Fernow in his address at the Canadian Club suggested three aspects, the 

 old timber, the young growth and the forest covering. I suggest that many of the 

 aspects brought up appertain to the old growth. There is an increasing attention 

 to the growth coming on, but in relation to this we should take it as a symbol 

 that the forest cover should be considered in respect of the very infancy of this 



