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Dr. Hopkins, of the Department of Agriculture, studied the beetle; he recom- 

 mended the restriction of the cut to the infested timber, and recommended it removed 

 as quickly as it became infested. As soon as the timber becomes infested it begins to 

 change colour, so that this method is perfectly feasible. The result has been very 

 beneficial. The pest is not one of these mysterious things that cannot be fought. 

 If people of the Black Hills had restricted the cut of the timber to proper seasons or 

 had cut all the infested timber by restricting the cut of the timber to proper seasons or 

 could have fought the beetle back to certain lines, where the birds and the other 

 natural enemies (of which we have heard in the Rev. Mr. Fyles' paper) would have 

 easily taken care of it and brought back the equilibrium. 



But people did not do that. They did not know what to do until Dr. Hopkins 

 told them what they were really suffering from. 



In the country we suffered losses from insects to the extent of millions of dol- 

 lars every year.. Most of the time the insect pest affects people in such a way that 

 they make no complaint. So far they have endured it just the same as drought, or 

 frost, nothing is said about it, and 1 very little inquiry is made as to possible remedies. 



I believe that papers of the kind just read by the Rev. Mr. Fyles, and instruc- 

 tions given along the same lines will bring home to the people who are interested in 

 the forest the possibilities of the insect enemies, and will get the people interested, 

 not for any sentimental reasons, but because they want to be rid of a costly and dan- 

 gerous enemy or at least want to know how to fight them and thus restrict the possible 

 losses. 



COLONEL LOQGIE. Before beginning my paper I would like to tell you this. In 

 the first place, I wish to thank the association for giving me an opportunity of read- 

 ing a paper at its annual meeting, and in the second place I would like to explain 

 that I am not an expert in forestry. My duties do not lead me into the forest. I am 

 simply what you might call an ' inside man,' and have never had as much opportunity 

 to study the forest as I would like. 



Perhaps I might also tell you how I came to be here and to read a paper before 

 you. Your good secretary was roaming around Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 

 looking for somebody to read a paper. I don't know if he found anybody in Nova 

 Scotia, but he came to me looking pretty careworn and said: ' I wish you would pre- 

 pare a paper.' Well, I kind of took pity on him and said that I would do my best. 



Now, you all know that an 'inside man' has very little opportunity to study the 

 forest as it really is. He has to keep his nose to the draughting table, or some other 

 table, and the only chance he has of seeing the forest is when he takes his holidays. 



I am very sorry that the premier of our province, Hon. Mr. Tweedie, has not found 

 it possible to be present. He is a gentleman who cakes a great deal of interest in 

 forestry and all that is connected with it. 



In New Brunswick the forest expert is hard to find. We have a great many people 

 who take an interest in forestry and who are lovers of the forest, but I venture to say 

 that we have no really prominent expert in forestry. The late Edward Jack was pro- 

 bably the only man, of late years, who could be called an expert in the matter. He was 



