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understand what you people do in this country with all those stumps?" 

 We had gone through probably 100 miles of nothing but stumps and rocks, 

 and I had to reply that up to the present time we were not doing anything 

 with them. It occurred to me * that if that was the individual opinion 

 expressed by a lady from Australia it should be a suggestion to us to begin 

 to utilize those lands which have been denuded of the timber. I wish to 

 mention an idea which has occurred to me. We have heard, this morning, 

 about the terrible effects upon our water systems, caused by the destruction 

 of the forests. A gentleman, in speaking to me a little while ago, said that 

 at certain times of this year the water in Lake Temiskaming was nineteen 

 feet below the usual depth in that lake. Nineteen feet of water on such a 

 Jarge lake represents an enormous volume of water. At the precise moment 

 that that gentleman saw Lake Temiskaming nineteen feet below its normal 

 level, the St. Lawrence river was higher than it was ever known to be before ; 

 proving conclusively, if proof were necessary, that the denuding of our 

 forests does result in the water running off rapidly, thus causing destructive 

 floods and doing other serious damage.. I thank you, Mr. President, for 

 the opportunity of being here to-day, and I assure you that I shall continue 

 in my humble way to promote as well as I possibly can the interests of the 

 Canadian Forestry Association. (Applause.) 



THE PRESIDENT: We would like to hear now from Professor McClement, 

 of Queen's University. 



PROFESSOR McCLEMENT'S ADDRESS. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : I must apologize for standing 

 before you as a speaker, for I had no intimation that I would be called upon. 

 I will confine my remarks merely to the statement that the Canadian For- 

 estry Association will always find Queen's University thoroughly interested 

 in its work and taking a sympathetic interest in it. Our instruction, in 

 every direction, is in close touch with every movement making towards the 

 conservation and preservation of our natural resources; and more particu- 

 larly in our forest regions. The fact, as our Lieutenant-Governor has 

 already indicated, that we have a Forest Reserve in our district, makes us 

 especially interested in this matter. It is certainly time that Ontario, lack- 

 ing, as she does, coal measures as a source of energy, should undertake to 

 preserve in the most careful way that other source of natural energy, her 

 water supply. We are endowed with a magnificent water supply for the pro- 

 duction of energy and it is necessary that we conserve it or we shall cer- 

 tainly suffer in the near future. In all our instruction along such lines as 

 this we shall undertake to point out to our young men the necessity of each 

 subordinating his own private wishes and interests to those of the public 

 and the future. In that way we hope that we may, at least to some slight 

 extent, sow the seeds which shall in the future bring about such a body of 



