3Q CANADIAN FOSESTST ASSOCIATION. 



abroad. While the white spruce on abandoned pastures grows at an 

 astonishing rate into a knotty rampike, and occasionally makes a saw- 

 log in sixty years, the forest spruce grows at a much slower rate, 

 and may not average a twelve-inch tree in less than a hundred years. 



"The three important conifers, viz., pine, spruce, and hemlock, 

 were found to be to a large extent confined to particular localities. 

 Annapolis County, for instance, may be called the hemlock region, as 

 this species forms 60 to 70 per cent, of the stands. Shelburne County 

 and part of Queen's are largely pine country, while Digby is a spruce 

 country, seventy-five per cent, of this species often occurring in the 

 stand of timber." 



I believe the Government is seriously considering the situation in 

 Nova Scotia, and that it will be their policy to encourage the fire ranging 

 system and endeavor to perfect the law and its enforcement. Contem- 

 plated changes are likely to occur in regard to the disposition of the Crown 

 Lands, and a probable consolidation by which a large area of land now 

 only partly forested will be specially looked after with the idea that in the 

 near future it can be made productive timber land, and a very valuable 

 asset of the Province. 



DISCUSSION OF PAPERS. 



In reply to a question by Hon. J. P. Burchill, Mr. Whitman made it 

 clear that his contention was that the Crown should carry the insurance 

 on timber lands leased to lumbermen. 



THE CHAIRMAN (HON. W. C. H." GRIMMER) : Regarding Dr. Jones' 

 remark that a pamphlet be prepared to distribute among the schools, I 

 might say that there is an excellent little work prepared by the State of 

 Maine, which is being 'used in the schools of that State, and we have 

 arranged to have a reprint of that work made for the schools of New 

 Brunswick. (Applause.) 



DR. G. U. HAY (St. John) : The paper by Dr. Jones was certainly an 

 admirable one. It occurred to me while he was reading, that it would be 

 an excellent thing to have a portion of the forest near Fredericton, where 

 students could go and see a perfectly clean forest floor, something that 

 would serve as an example. The idea could be carried out in connection 

 with the public schools also to have a little patch of forest in each local- 

 ity. Now, I think it is perfectly clear that the forest fires are the greatest 

 enemies, and we first of all need to have the forests clean, in order that a 

 hre will not get under headway. Another thing is to prevent the setting 

 or to control them after they have started. I think, no doubt, 

 great number of the forest fires that have devastated New Brunswick 

 I by the trams The fact that new lines of railway are under 

 We have a fine water wer at Grand 



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th that water power developed I suppose it would run most of 

 railways m New Brunswick by electricity, and there is a feeling that 



