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An aftiTiiooii audience of school children at \'i>uiig, .Sa>kalcliewan. This luie liody of little folks have 



just heard Mr. Mitchell's talk on "Tree Planting on the Prairies," together with the motion picture 



display given inside the Canadian Forestry Association's Tree Planting Car. 



Our Travelling Railway Cars 



Slill j^'oing' strong and with public in- 

 terest constantly increasing, the Canadian 

 Forestry Association's Tree T lanting 

 Car drew into CarnduiTf, Sask., recently. 

 Thus reads a few paragraphs of the 

 daily diary : 



Afternoon lecture held in two parts: 

 At 2 p.m.. 126 children attended; at 

 3.30 p.m., 70 High School pupils, with 9 

 teachers and seven other adults came. 

 Car packed for evening lecture, with 

 many turned away. Audience not afraid 

 to ask plenty of questions. 



Deloraine. Manitoba : During morning, 

 our Car had a number of visitors. 

 Gave them an impromptu lecture. 

 Afternoon lecture attended by 86 High 

 School pupils, the Principal and 34 other 

 adults. Evening lecture attended by 97 

 people. An excellent discussion follow- 

 ed. District has sufifered from soil drift. 



So reads the day to day record of the 

 Association's unique enterprise in the 

 prairie provinces. 



Our Eastern Car, called the Forestry 

 Exhibition Car, has been devoting itself 

 to Ontario for some time past and will 

 wind up its Ontario tour at Pembroke 

 and Braeside about November 11th. 

 After that date, if weather permits it will 



be quickly re-arranged for another Que- 

 bec tour of three or four weeks. To it 

 will be attached a special Lecture Car, 

 capable of seating one hundred adults. 

 The Association hopes to send the two 

 cars direct to Three Rivers and use them 

 for educational work in Central Quebec, 

 until snow conditions make further haul- 

 ing impossible. 



The volume of visitors to the Forestry 

 Exhibition Car during its run through 

 Ontario has been unprecedented. Lib- 

 eral advance advertising was, in part re- 

 sponsible, but the Car, which has lately 

 received many improvements, has at- 

 tracted crowds at every stop. For ex- 

 ample, at \\'aubaushene, Ontario, such a 

 large number of people came out for the 

 evening motion picture demonstration 

 that it was necessary to open a nearby 

 skating rink where over eight hundred 

 people attended. In many places, the 

 school boards have declared half holi- 

 days or have arranged for school essays 

 on forest conservation to supplement the 

 work of the car's exhibits. 



Co-operation on the part of all local 

 authorities along the route has been re- 

 markably generous. 



