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ment of a non-political commission to supervise forest lands, 

 increases in the technical staff and in the number of forest and 

 fire wardens and greater attention to popular education in 

 forestry. 



Mr. T- Kelly Evans, on behalf of the Forest, Fish and Game 

 Protective Association of Ontario, urged continued and more 

 extended propaganda work through the press and by the 

 medium of pubUc lectures and talks, illustrated where possible. 

 The apathy of the people he regarded as the worst enemy of the 

 cause. 



Mr. John B. Laidlaw, speaking for the Fire Underwriters' 

 Association, told of the waste of wood and other structural 

 material through fire; the loss of property in Canada and the 

 United States through fire was ten times what it was in European 

 countries. He mentioned some of the great forest fires in 

 Canada, advocated the burning of slash and referred to the 

 necessity of preserving the forests in order to protect the 

 streams. 



The Canadian Society of Forest Engineers was represented 

 by its President, Dr. Fernow. He referred to the advance of 

 forestry knowledge, and especially the increase in the number 

 of technically trained men. The Society he represented now 

 numbered about twenty men, almost all trained foresters, and 

 he had had part in educating nearly fifty per cent, of these. He 

 emphasized the fact that forestry was a patriotic subject and 

 that the forester, cut off as he was from society much of his time, 

 must be a man of high morals. 



The session was then adjourned. 



Thursday Afternoon. 



At Thursday afternoon's session the first item was the 

 reading by the President of his address. After returning thanks 

 for his election to the office of president and welcoming those 

 present in the name of the Canadian Forestry Association, he 

 referred to the estabhshment of the Faculty of Forestry in the 

 University of Toronto and the chair of forestry at the University 

 of New Brunswick. He advocated also the sending out by the 

 Governments of lecturers throughout the country to give popular 

 talks on such subjects as "fire fighting and precautions against 

 fire, economical methods of cutting and logging, the building of 

 roads, bridges and dams, the value of forest cover in regulating 

 stream flow, the advantage of trees to the farm, methods of rais- 

 ing trees from seed and planting them at the least cost, how to 

 combat the diseases of trees, with some practical instruction 

 in forest mensuration methods, how thinnings should be made, 

 etc." He was also in favor of each province having a proper 

 survey made of its wooded area, and suggested that the 



