90 CAN ADI AK FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



DISCUSSION ON REFORESTATION. 



Mr. S. L. Peters (Queenstown, N.B.) held that New Brunswick had a 

 large area that could profitably be devoted to reforestation. The natural 

 wood of the country grew rapidly and for young men he thought this a 

 profitable form of investment. Spruce logs twenty feet long, eleven inches 

 at the top, could be grown in sixty years, and beech logs twenty feet long 

 and fourteen inches at the top in the same time. He felt that cutting small 

 stuff for pulpwood was an evil. In his judgment no stick should be cut that 

 did not top at least ten inches. 



Mr. Whitman took up the point of the scattering of tree seed over 

 land newly burned. He had tried that in a dry season and the seeds per- 

 ished. If the seed had been an inch or so underground it would probably 

 have propagated. While he agreed with Mr. Peters in the main, still, 

 under the different conditions of growth and sale in Nova Scotia, they 

 could cut' small timber at a profit for the South American trade. New 

 Brunswick cut for Great Britain, and that required a larger specification. 



A delegate, whose name the reporter did not catch, offered the sug- 

 gestion that the spruce men should get together and secure adequate prices, 

 as the Quebec men controlled the prices in Britain for white pine. 



The Chairman (Senator Edwards) took exception to this, saying that 

 sixty per cent, of the pine lumber cut in Canada east of Lake Superior came 

 into competition with the pine of the Southern States, and prices were really 

 fixed in North Carolina, and not in Quebec or Liverpool. He had stood 

 out against the agitation to prevent southern pine coming into Canada, al- 

 though it was cutting into the white pine market in Montreal and Toronto. 

 His view was that if the people of Canada could thus get cheaper lumber, 

 the people should not be punished for the benefit of a few manufacturers. 

 If Canada conserved her timber her turn would come when this other 

 timber was all gone. 



The meeting adjourned for lunch. 



AFTERNOON SESSION, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24th, 1910. 



Hon. Senator Edwards again took the Chair at the opening of the 

 Thursday afternoon session. 



Mr. Knechtel continued the discussion on Mr. Zavitz's paper. He 

 was glad to see enthusiasm for reforestation, if it were informed, not blind, 

 enthusiasm. Having been for seven years in charge of tree planting for 

 the State of New York, which had done more reforestation than any other 

 State, he had been asked by the Commissioner of Forestry for Minnesota 

 to prepare a scheme for planting white pine. The Legislature of Minne- 

 sota had made an appropriation of $72,000 per annum for this purpose. 

 In compliance with this request, he had formulated a scheme which took in 

 everything from the collecting of the seeds, the handling of nurseries, etc., 



