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konw what our Forestry Branch has done, not only under Mr. Stewart, but 

 under Mr. Campbell, and what our experimental farm work has accomplished 

 under Doctor Saunders, especially in the Northwest, in the matter of 

 supplying young trees to farmers and others for what is sometimes called 

 reforesting purposes. Although the trees already distributed number sev- 

 eral millions they would cover a very few square miles if they were planted 

 together in the ordinary sense of reforesting. The question of reforestation 

 in our country must be left in the main to nature. If that fact is admitted, 

 I am confident that a very little drainage of our bogs at a slight expendi- 

 ture of money will work wonders. (Applause.) 



THE PRESIDENT : Do you know whether the bogs in this country have 

 ever been tested to find if they contain chemical substances of commercial 

 value ? 



Mr. MACOUN : I may say that my own special work has been along lines 

 of that nature this year to find what our bogs are worth. Mr. Neishman, 

 of the Department of Mines, has been also on that work. 



THE PRESIDENT : I understand that in Ireland they have established a 

 factory for the production of a chemical substance from the bogs, which has 

 greatly enhanced their value. 



Mr. MACOUN : We have found nothing of that kind in Canada. The bogs 

 in Ireland contain a great deal of iron, but our bogs do not, excepting the 

 bogs in Madoc Township. I have myself tested woods from Ontario bogs, 

 but they contain no chemicals of any value. 



THE PRESIDENT : I think we can now discuss to advantage the excellent 

 paper read by Mr. Bergevin this morning. 



Mr. LITTLE : In commending the Province of Ontario for its wisdom 

 in establishing a Forestry School I should have congratulated it upon secur- 

 ing for this school the eminent services of Dr. Fernow, who, in my opinion, 

 has done more than any one else in America to bring the cause of Forestry 

 prominently before the public. 



THE PRESIDENT : I will now call upon Professor R. B. Miller, of the 

 Department of Forestry in the University of New Brunswick, to read his 

 paper. 



