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against fire. Besides, with campers on the lakes when a fire occurs there 

 are people at hand to help to extinguish it. Therefore, the Department has 

 under consideration the advisability of renting camp sites on the shores 

 of these lakes, the leases to be made out for ten years, renewable at the dis- 

 cretion of the Superintendent of Forestry and cancellable at any time for 

 any misuse or menace to the forest reserve. 



THE PRESIDENT : As our time is now up we will adjourn till the after- 

 noon, when Senator Edwards will speak to us. We always appreciate his 

 talks, for he hits from the shoulder and goes right at it. (Applause.) Before 

 adjourning, the Honorable Mr. Grimmer wishes to say a word about a reso- 

 lution which he desires to have embodied. 



HON. MR. GRIMMER : The work of this Convention is drawing to a close. 

 It will necessarily follow that in the early part of the afternoon you will 

 probably discuss the question of the meeting place of the next Convention. 

 On behalf of the Government of the Province of New Brunswick I wish to 

 extend an invitation to the Association to hold its next Convention in the City 

 of Fredericton. (Applause). We enjoyed the special meeting held there two 

 years ago, and we look forward with the hope that you come there in 1910. I 

 beg to suggest that the Resolution Committee may include in their resolutions, 

 if my suggestion is favorably met, that the Convention shall meet at .Fred- 

 ericton, in 1910, as guests of the Government of New Brunswick. (Applause.) 



The Secretary announced that a photographer was present for the pur- 

 pose of taking a group photograph of the delegates, which would be of inter- 

 est to the members, and used by some of the newspapers and magazines. The 

 meeting then adjourned. 



SECOND DAY AFTEENOON SESSION. 



Friday, February 12th, 1909. 



Convention resumed at 2 p.m. 



The President called upon Mr. E. J. Zavitz, who read the following 

 paper : 



WASTE LAND PLANTING IN ONTARIO. 

 E. J. ZAVITZ, B.A., M.S.F., FORESTER ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



The Department of Agriculture of Ontario is concerned with two fores- 

 try problems, namely : It aims to assist farmers and other land owners in 

 properly handling their woodlands and reforesting waste portions of the 

 farm. It has also inaugurated a policy of segregating and placing under 

 forest management the large areas of waste lands throughout older Ontario. 



The farmer's woodlot represents in the aggregate, about 8,500 square 

 miles of woodland. Waste land in the form of sand, gravel or rock forma- 

 tions and steep hillsides, would probably represent another 8,000 square 



