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Publicity and education follow in sequence. In each of these fields 

 concerted effort will produce results that individuals cannot hope to 

 attain. 



Finally, there is research by co-operating with the established Gov- 

 ernment agencies ; the needs of each can best be correlated. 



Mr. Campbell, representing the Dominion Government, spoke of the 

 fundamental value of the pulp and paper industry and the public neces- 

 sity to back it up. Therefore the Government should be interested in 

 the future supply of raw material to the industry. 



We, too, can improve the condition and output of our forests. It 

 requires men who know conditions and who are in the forest. 



Finally, Mr. Piche made the real forestry appeal of the day. After 

 complimenting the pulp and paper industry on their energy and effi- 

 ciency, he continued in a less complimentary vein : "It is very sensible," 

 he said, ''to improve your fabrication; but why would you leave your 

 forests, your source of raw meaterial, in a bad state? Why not apply 

 the same methods of scientific management that you employ success- 

 fully in your mill for the production of your timber supply ; why leave 

 your forest operations in the hands of jobbers, who have only a vicari- 

 ous interest, instead of employing technical men, as you do in your 

 mills? The pulp and paper industry, being established for a long time, 

 can afford to manage its forests on a permanent basis better than any 

 other class of lumbermen." 



Mr. Piche then outlined the program to be followed : 



(i) Secure the proper man to put in charge of your timber lands — a 

 forester. 



(2) Make an inventory of your timber lands. The operations, to be 

 conducted in an efficient manner, must be directed by the head office 

 according to a working plan and not be carried on in a haphazard way. 

 as done now. 



(3) Studies of the rate of growth of the various species, so as to 

 know how they should be cut. 



(4) Reforestation : A mill producing 100 tons per day would only 

 require a forest area of 200,000 acres if same was managed to produce 

 wood properly. By adding $1 more to the cost price of your wood, 

 you could reforest enough land each year to insure you a permanent 

 supply for the future. 



Other speakers at the meeting were: Col. J. R. White, wli«> is in 

 charge of forestry work for the army in France, and Senator Edwards. 

 The former drew a "deadly parallel" between the productive forests of 

 France and the unproductive ones of Canada. The latter urged that 



