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Mr. STEWART. Mr. Bertram has referred to one matter that I would just like to 

 speak of. He states, for instance, that if we could have the forestry articles published 

 :,- Farmers' Advocate they would reach the agricultural class, and in the Lumber- 

 man it would reach the lumbering class. These are both large and very desirable classes 

 to reach. Now, the difficulty in trying to publish in the Formers' Advocate is this : 

 it is only one of the agricultural papers in this country. In the North-west the A or'- 

 wett Farmer has a very large circulation and if you singled out the Farmers' Advocate 

 there would, no doubt, be jealousy and a very great deal of criticism of the action of 

 the Association in choosing one particular publication. That is the difficulty we have 

 to contend with in the whole Dominion. If we publish in any one publication read in 

 one province alone, it is read in that province, but outside of that members would 

 get no benefit of it. It might be sent to them, of course, and the forestry matter would 

 be of interest to them, while the balance would not. The idea is to have one publica- 

 tion devoted entirely to forestry, and we would certainly be able to publish enough 

 extra numbers to distribute, I hope, to others than subscribers to a certain extent, 

 and with certain articles marked, especially to the press in all the provinces. If Mr. 

 Bertram had seen the difficulties that we had in that regard he would say that it is 

 very difficult indeed to take up any one paper. I would be delighted to take the Can- 

 adian Lumberman for one section. It is an excellent medium for reaching the lum- 

 bermen, but I cannot see how, with one editor, we could look after publishing in 

 different papers. 



Mr. BERTRAM. I should probably have elaborated my remarks a little more; I 

 was rather hurried about it. It was by no means the intention to confine the publica- 

 tions to Ontario, or Ontari6 papers. The same thing can be done in Manitoba and 

 the North-west and the Maritime provinces. They would be very glad to get the 

 articles, and might pay for it, for that matter. Simply being acquainted with these 

 two papers in Ontario I instanced them as being the two papers for this province. 

 There would be no objection whatever to taking in any paper in the North-west, or 

 other provinces. 



Mr. STEWART. Do you think it practicable for us to undertake arrangements 

 with so many papers ? We have had a great deal of difficulty in making arrangements 

 even with Rod and Gun. Mr. Campbell is circumscribed with Rod and Gun. He is 

 not the editor, and if they object to setting aside certain columns for our use he can 

 do nothing. They also take the liberty of saying what articles they shall publish and 

 vhat they shall not. 



The CHAIRMAN. Is there any further* discussion on this important subject? I 

 know it is the desire of most of us to reach the most suitable form of publication, and 

 if there is nothing further to be said, I wish to put the resolution. Is it the pleasure 

 of the Association that this resolution be adopted? 



Resolution adopted. 



THE TREASURER'S REPORT. 



Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Chairman, the report of the Treasurer was not laid before 

 the meeting this morning in any formal way. If you will permit me, I will just read 



