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Canadian Agriculture. 
In New Brijnswick there are 9000 square miles of forest area 
not under license, and 3500 miles under license. 
The area of timber lands in the Dominion is estimated to 
cover in all about 280,000 square miles. In the United States, 
the timber lands yet remaining in possession of the Govern- 
ment occupy 132,000 square miles, representing, at the present 
rate of consumption, about 28 years' supply. The Hon. Geo. B. 
Loring, for many years Commissioner of Agriculture in the 
United States, is of opinion that in the course of one generation 
the forests of the United States will be almost entirely ex- 
hausted : in this case an active demand for Canadian timber is 
sure to spring up in the American market ; so that unless the 
conservation of the forests of Canada is efficiently provided for 
by the Dominion authorities, this will be likely to constitute 
one more link in the chain of causes that are operating against 
the preservation of the forests of British North America. But 
the people of Canada appear now to be fully alive to the neces- 
sity of providing by legislative enactments against any further 
careless or reckless dealing with what should be one of the most 
permanent and valuable sources of revenue to the Dominion. 
Measures will probably be introduced providing for the setting 
aside of large districts for forest purposes, and for the regular 
maintenance of officials charged with the duty of preventing 
the occurrence of forest fires. At present, the Province of 
Quebec appears to take the lead in arboricultural legislation. 
The " arbour days," or tree-planting holidays of Quebec and 
New Brunswick, are deserving of speedy imitation in the other 
Provinces of the Dominion. 
Canada is undoubtedly in need of one or more good schools 
of forestry, such as those which exist in France or Finland ; 
and technical schools of this character should be established by 
the Government with as little delay as possible. It is well known 
that men who are selected by the Civil Service Examiners 
to enter the Woods and Forests Service of India, are required to 
spend a year or two in France, at the Forest School of Nancy, 
or at some similar institution, there to acquire that instruction 
in sylviculture which their own country is unable to afford them. 
During several recent sessions. Sir John Lubbock, M.P., has 
brought under the notice of the House of Commons the utterly 
inadequate means this country possesses for the teaching of 
forestry, and last session obtained considerable support in his 
advocacy of the establishment of a forest school. In opposition 
to this proposal, it was urged that there are within the limits of 
the United Kingdom no woodlands of sufficient size to meet the 
requirements of such a school ; but whether this be so or not, 
the objection is such as cannot possibly apply to Canada. The 
