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Mr. CHOWN. I would like to suggest that we have what we might call an editorial 

 secretary, whose duty it would be to prepare und collect the material for publication. 

 In connection with that we might also include father Burke's suggestion, that it 

 would be his duty to issue bulletins and have them sent out. We might be able to 

 arrange with some of the departments to have them franked for circulation. That is 

 the next step. I understand our officers are going to make an attempt to largely 

 increase our membership next year. That is a good thing, and then, if we had some- 

 one to help as a writer, to undertake the editorial work and popularize Rod and Gun 

 we will be taking a long step forward. 



FATHER BURKE. I would like to ask what the circulation of Rod and Gun is, 

 where it goes, and to whom ? 



The CHAIRMAN. Perhaps the treasurer could give you some information, or Mr. 

 White. 



Mr. WHITE. I was going to say, in connection with this matter, that the arrange- 

 ment which we made with Rod and Gun seemed to be the only arrangement that 

 could be made at the time it was made, because we could not at that time establish 

 anything in the nature of an organ of this Association. I am not able to say just 

 what the circulation of Rod and Gun is, but, at all events, its subscription price, I 

 think, is a dollar per annum, and a copy of that paper is sent to every member of the 

 Association, and, as we have heard to-day, there are over four hundred members of the 

 Association. Now, the amount we pay Rod and Gun to be our organ is, I think, 

 not at all extravagant, having regard to the fact that $400 worth of the paper is sent 

 broadcast throughout this Dominion to different people. I have always thought that 

 it might be made an admirable medium for disseminating knowledge in connection 

 with forestry matters, because in the first place the men who buy it, sporting men, a 

 good many of them, are constantly in the forest and take an interest in forestry mat- 

 ters, and could contribute material which would be of interest, and in the second 

 place, they could assist us in everything pertaining to forestry. I do not think, sir, 

 that we have arrived at that position where we are able to maintain an organ of our 

 own, because gentlemen must remember that it entails a good deal of labour to get up 

 a magazine or a paper once a month, or even quarterly, and we could not attempt to 

 do anything of that kind unless we were to appoint somebody to do the work. Now, 

 if this Association is in a position to pay a gentleman who shall devote his entire time 

 to writing matter for a monthly or quarterly magazine, then I say let us do that. But, 

 I do not think we are able to pay a salary sufficient to secure the right man, and, 

 therefore, 1 think what we ought to do is to continue the present arrangement endea- 

 vouring to get more forestry matter into Rod and Gun. As it is at present, we see 

 an article one month and there is none the next. What we ought to do is to endeavour 

 to get some interesting articles into every issue of the paper. I think we cannot, at 

 the present time, attempt to establish an organ of our own. 



Professor GOODWIN. Would it be possible to induce the proprietors of Rod and 

 Gun to modify the title to indicate that it is the organ of the Association. Rod and 

 Gun and Forestry, for instance. Some such title would indicate the interests of for- 

 estry. That might answer a very good purpose. The difficulty I find with Rod and 



