92 CANADIAN F OSE S TEY ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. Knechtel repeated that he felt people should go cautionsly in sow- 

 ing seed until they had better data upon which to work. 



Mr. Samuel Freeze (Doaktown, N.B.) said the growth that sprang 

 up after forest fires was chiefly poplar and white birch. This was due to 

 the fact that the seeds of these trees were carried by the wind like thistle- 

 down, while pine and spruce seeds were too heavy to be distributed in this 

 way. Large tracts burned over in the Miramichi fire in 1825 were still 

 without trees, or covered with a very inferior growth, whereas he knew of 

 fields cultivated forty years ago from which spruce logs fourteen feet 

 long and eight inches in diameter at the top end were recently cut. This 

 emphasized the need of assisting Nature in reforesting burnt over areas, 

 and Mr. Freeze suggested that the Crown Lands Department secure a sup- 

 ply of pine and spruce seeds and have these sown on burnt over lands. The 

 expenditure would be small and the results would possibly be great, for 

 areas might thus be got back into desirable timber in less than half the 

 time Nature would require. 



In the absence of the author the next paper was read by Hon. A. B. 

 Warburton, M.P. 



FORESTRY AND THE PRESERVATION OF FISH AND GAME. 



E. T. CARBONELL, SECRETARY P.E.I. FISH AND GAME PROTECTION 



ASSOCIATION. 



Forestry and the Preservation of Fish and Game are twin sisters, work- 

 ing hand in hand to intensify the attractiveness of the country and to pre- 

 serve and augment the general health and vigour of the people of Canada. 

 Forestry protects and encourages the growth, preservation and reproduc- 

 tion of the trees which shower blessings on their vicinity; purifying the 

 atmosphere, and increasing the humidity, without which the whole country 

 would become a barren wilderness. Forestry also aims to check forest fires 

 as well as to eradicate, as far as posible, their causes; and especially to 

 prevent the woodlands from being devastated through the negligence of 

 the officials and employes of the railways. 



The Protection of Fish and Game tends to increase the numbers of 

 those great attractions which an Allwise Providence has placed in the 

 world to occasionally draw tired and worn out men from their offices, 

 counting rooms, studies and workshops, and to lead them far afield, 

 where their bodies will be refreshed by Nature's sweet restorers, and their 

 wearied brains soothed by the beauty of the scenery and invigorated by the 

 pleasures of the chase. It is a generally accepted fact that the benefit to 

 be derived from a day afield with rod or gun, by a tired, brain-fagged 

 indoor worker, is something which cannot possibly be expressed either in 

 words or figures. Active bodily exercise in the pure open air, coupled with 

 the entire forgetfulness of all business or other worries, brings as its re- 

 ward a renewal of health and vigour; and certainly there is no incentive 



