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inestimable service in training the young to appreciate and pre- 

 serve their forest wealth. 



Mr. White (Pembroke) said he questioned whether the 

 suggestion that the debris should be burned would be of any 

 value in the East. Burning in the fall would simply destroy 

 the moss and lichen, which might check the fires and would still 

 leave the trees to burn. 



Mr. Overton Price said that 



In the United States 



fire protection was still in the experimental stage. They would 

 be willing to give up everything else to be assured of absolute 

 protection from fire. In the Eastern States they had tried the 

 practice of gathering together the tops of trees and burning them, 

 but it proved quite costly and on the Pacific Coast where the 

 forests were large would be quite impracticable. He did not 

 know that even in the Middle West and on the Atlantic Coast the 

 burning of tops was a success, because they were still liable to 

 fire, the only difference being that they would have a flash fire 

 from burning the trees and there would be less heat than if the 

 underwood had been left. It was a question to him whether the 

 money would not be more wisely expended in appointing more 

 firemen. 



Mr. Craig: " How about forest sales in the United States?" 



Mr. Price said timber lands were advertised and sold by 

 tender for five years. To make sure that the young trees would 

 be preserved and only the mature timber taken away they mark- 

 ed the trees that were allowed to be cut. 



Hon. Mr. Sweeney: "That is only a sort of pruning of the 

 forest." 



Mr. Price: "No hardly that. I am afraid we allow too 

 much of the timber to be taken off as it is. 



Mr. White (Pembroke): "Old style lumbering, I suppose." 

 (Laughter) . 



Mr. ICnechtel, Forester of the State of New York, being 

 called upon supported Dr. Clark's advice about the preservation 

 of forests. He instanced the Black Forest in Germany. At 

 first it was being destroyed by careless lumbering but for the 

 past 200 years reforestration and lumbering had been carried on 

 there together successfully. What the Germans had been doing 

 could be done here. 



Mr. Peter Lund (Cranbrook) agreed with Mr. Lindmark 

 that the forest preservation methods adopted in Sweden could 

 not be surpassed, and it would be well for the Association to 

 obtain some of their literature. For a number of years he had 



