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lands for reserves. Some four reserves have so far 
been established, and the reserved area amounts to 
nearly 7 million acres. 
Of management on forestry lines there is so far little 
to be heard. 
Quebec has feebly followed this example of Ontario, 
by setting aside the Laurentides Park in the Saguenay 
region, (1,634,000 acres), and New Brunswick proposed 
in 1901 to set aside a large reserve. 
Of other attempts to foster forestry interests may 
be mentioned a law in Quebec, passed in 1882, provid- 
ing a bonus of $12 per acre for tree planting, which 
seems to have remained without effect; another, pro- 
viding for a diameter limit of 12 inches on the stump 
for pine and 9 inches for other kinds, inaugurated in 
1888, may have preserved some young growth on the 
limits, although, since pulpwood is now the main 
product, and supervision is inefficient, not much may 
be expected from such laws. 
The Dominion has been active in encouraging tree- 
planting in the prairies. The Agricultural Experiment 
Station at Ottawa not only set out object lessons by 
planting some 20 acres of sample plots, but for a num- 
ber of years distributed plant material to settlers. 
This work has lately been taken over by the Forestry 
Branch and increased to a larger scale, some 160 acres 
being in nursery, and the distribution having grown 
to 2,000,000 seedlings. 
Tariff legislation is another means which is in the 
hands of the Dominion government to be used for 
encouraging forest conservancy. It has, however, so 
far not been used directly for such purpose, fiscal and 
