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the opinion of a number not by any means the majority of the members some sixty 

 or seventy, out of four or five hundred, that have expressed an opinion. Now, we must 

 consider in the first place that this is a Canadian Forestry Association. It does not 

 belong to any one province. When forming this Association a few years ago, the 

 founders took that view in the first place, that it would be impossible to have a success- 

 ful provincial forestry association, and we formed one for the whole Dominion, and 

 having officers in every part thereof. Now, if it were either Ontario, or Prince Ed- 

 ward Island, or the North-west Territories, it would not be so difficult to have an 

 organ. The North-west Territories and Manitoba would say to publish in an agricul- 

 tural paper. The lumbermen would probably prefer to have the Canadian Lum- 

 berman. The scientific men would probably prefer to have some of the scientific 

 journals. You, therefore, see the difficulties arising from the different classes, 

 and we have to arrive at a medium that will please the great majority of our 

 people. Now, with reference to bulletins being sent out, which the last speaker re- 

 ferred to. We are sending out bulletins ; the Ontario Government are sending out 

 bulletins through the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Southworth is sending out 

 matter regarding forestry all the time. But this is an organ of the Association, to give 

 the views of the Association and educate the people along forestry lines. We started 

 with Bod and Gun a few years ago. They gave us a portion of their paper and 

 afterwards changed the arrangement and dispose of our matter anywhere throughout 

 the publication. There is a little of something every month, and if we are to continue 

 with Rod and Gun they must give us a number of pages devoted wholly to that 

 object. That which we have is lost at present in it. If we can afford it I think we 

 should have at least a quarterly publication of our own. My reason for that is this : 

 We would receive more attention from the press if we had a distinctive paper of our 

 own. One of the objections to having an organ of our own was that we would not get 

 readers outside of our own organization, but if we had an organ of our own devoted 

 entirely to forestry, I tnink you would find the press of the country would take that up 

 and in that way the objects of the Association and the work we are doing will receive 

 greater notice than in any other organ. Now, I know Mr. Campbell has had a very 

 onerous task indeed in preparing the matter for Rod and Gun. It does take a great 

 deal of time. I am not perhaps well enough versed in those matters to speak on the 

 subject, but it does strike me that there would not be more work in preparing a quar- 

 terly than there would be in doing what he does at present for Rod and Gun. The 

 question then is, would a quarterly be sufficient for our purpose ? I am inclined to 

 think that we could not, at present, publish a monthly. Now, there is just one other 

 subject for our notice. There is in the United States a paper, formerly the forestry 

 organ, now forestry and irrigation. It is a question whether irrigation is of suffi- 

 cient general interest in Canada to warrant our joining with them in the publication 

 of such a paper. I do not know whether it would be wise to do so in view of the fact 

 that irrigation in Canada is not at present a matter of general interest. The lumber- 

 men have an excellent medium covering a large portion of the country. It is just a 

 question whether an arrangement with the Canadian Lumberman would not be 

 bettert than Rod and Gun. It would not be one which would commend itself to the 

 farmers, and people planting trees on the farm would not care for the Lumberman 

 at all. So you see the difficulty in getting any one organ devoted to any particular 

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