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export duty on logs, thereby protecting our forests and secur- 
ing work for our own people. 
CREATION or New Forssts. 
It is difficult to compress within the narrow limits of ona 
lecture all the branches of Forestry. After considering the 
preservation of existing forests, we cannot ignore the neces- 
sity for creating new ones, on the prairies of the North-West 
and our old settlements, denuded of trees, in the Hast. 
As for the North-West, what we want, first of all, is 
practical experience. Many theories have been propounded to 
explain the absence of trees on the prairies, and Mr. A. T. 
Drummond, of Montreal, a zealous worker in the cause of 
Forestry, has written some very interesting essays, on that 
subject. 
No use dwelling on the benefits to accrue from the plant- 
ing of trees on the North-West prairies. Let the Govern- 
ment make a beginning, by starting experimental Forestry 
stations, nurseries and plantations of trees, under the care 
of the Mounted Police, at every one of their permanent 
headquarters. It will be an example to the settlers; the 
young trees raised from seed, at a nominal cost in the 
nurseries, Can be given to them. The work will not inter- 
fere with the duties of the Mounted Police, and it will in- 
terest and improve the men, in every way. Practical ex- 
perience will soon indicate what trees to select, where and 
how to sow and plant. 
[ would recommend the Ash-leaved Maple, (Acer nequndo) 
to start with. The rapidity of its growth, its resistance to 
the drought, the value of its sap for sugar, which has been 
scientifically demonstrated by Doctor B. J. Harrington, in 
a series of experiments, the results of which have been com- 
municated by him to the Royal Society of Canada, ina most 
interesting paper; all these recommend its culture as a 
starting point. With that tree, plant cotton-wood, poplar 
willow, every kind of fast-growing tree, however inferior in 
quality, 80 as to start wind screens, behind which slower 
