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ing the week of the Congress, and by other smaller conferences, 

 two of which were held at the Shoreham, the headquarters of the 

 Canadian delegates. The disposal of slash after lumbering oper- 

 ations, was one of the questions discussed. Mr. Pinchot stated 

 that from investigations made in the Cache Lake Reserve the 

 Bureau of Forestry had found that the burning of slash could be 

 done at 25c. a thousand. Dr. Schenck, however, pointed out that 

 with a stand of 5,000 feet to the acre, this meant for an area of 

 200,000 acres an expenditure of $250,000. which was equal to an 

 annual expenditure of $14,000, and he therefore concluded that 

 it would be better to put the money into providing a fire preven- 

 tive service. The expense and the danger from careless hand- 

 ling of the fire seemed, in the general opinion, to render this me- 

 thod of disposing of the slash inadvisable, though the question was 

 still left an open one. In California slash burning is viewed with 

 favor. A delegate from that State mentioned, that on one tract 

 of 30,000 acres, where cutting had been carried on for eight years, 

 the slash had been burned along the road, or on about 1,000 acres, 

 at the rate of 12 cents per acre. 



Canada was well represented at the Congress, those present 

 being Dr. Robt. Bell, Professor John Macoun, Dr. Jas. Fletcher, 

 E. Stewart, Norman M. Ross and R. H. Campbell, Ottawa; 

 Aubrey White, Dr. Judson F. Clark, Dr. A. T. Drummond, J. H. 

 Faull, Toronto ; G. Y. Chown, Kingston. Professor W. X. Hutt, 

 now of Maryland Agricultural College, formerly of Toronto, was 

 also present. Mr. White addressed the Congress at the opening 

 session, giving greetings from Canada, and explaining the me- 

 thods of timber administration in the Dominion. Mr. Stewart 

 also spoke of the forestry work in the West and invited members 

 of the Congress to attend the annual meeting of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association to be held in Quebec. 



