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College are teaching forestry an. I we hope soon to have a competent set of men to 

 wrestle with our problem. 



Here, then, we have a few signs of activity which may interest you by reason 

 of their similarity to your conditions. There is just one thing I would emphasize, 

 and this is: If the private man makes the good farmer and the State the better for- 

 ester, I hope you will see your way clear to holding on to your" lands. I confidently 

 hope that you will, for you have made a good start and a timely start, better and 

 sooner than we, and I hope that you will hold and hold tight every acre of land which 

 is not actual farm land. Do not turn it over to the town or county, to the mercy of 

 the peanut politician, where a personal greed will always put foremost that dangerous 

 phrase and motto of the short-sighted and greedy: 'Posterity has done nothing for 

 me, I need the money, need it badly and need it now.' Gentlemen I thank you. 



EDUCATION IN FORESTRY. 



PROFESSOR JAMES LOUDON, M.A., LL.D., PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. 



Mr. President and gentlemen. This is the first occasion on which I have had the 

 pleasure of attending a meeting of the Canadian Forestry Association. Distance from 

 the place of meeting and the pressure of other duties has caused my absence, not any 

 want of sympathy with the aims of the Association, or interest in its proceedings. 

 I consider that the Association has achieved a great deal during the five years of its 

 existence; in awakening a widespread interest in forestry; in assembling together 

 from all parts of Canada representative men to discuss the many problems which 

 present themselves; and in issuing the valuable reports which, I may say, I have read 

 as they appeared with interest and profit. For, Mr. President, I need hardly tell you 

 that I am not a forester, nor the son of a forester, but I have for some years back 

 realized the importance of the subject in Canada, and I have been trying to get light 

 on it from available sources, -and among these sources I value your reports very 

 highly. 



The object of this paper is to introduce a discussion on Education in Forestry, 

 the necessity for it, ways and means for its practical realization. Now, * although 

 education in forestry was, in my opinion, a necessity years ago, I feel that the chances 

 of success have been greatly increased -through the preliminary work done by your 

 Association. Information on the subject has been thus diffused, public interest has 

 been aroused; in short you have contributed largely to provide that basis of public 

 opinion which is necessary for any important movement. 



b is instructive to look for a moment at the rapid progress of the movement in 

 the United States. There we see that within a very few years a preliminary cam- 

 paign, such as is now being waged here, has resulted in the organization of several 

 important schools of forestry, a lively interest among leading men of business and 

 politicians (including President Roosevelt), the establishment of a central Bureau 

 of Forestry at 'Washington, of Departments of Forestry in several of the States, and 

 the widespread application of systematic forestry. It is, in short, regarded as a busi- 

 ness proposition, and a practical matter. This is, I imagine, what we wish to bring 

 about here, and as speedily as possible. 



Forestry, like technical education in general, suffers from popular misconcep- 

 tions. I do not, of course, need to clear up these misconceptions as far as this As- 

 sociation is concerned, but it may not be amiss to state, for the benefit of the ordinary 

 layman, that a fire-ranger is not a forester no more a forester than a navvy is an 

 engineer that a forester's business is not to prevent the cutting down of trees, but to 



