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University professors and students should be employed for the 

 purpose in their vacations, having associated with them stu-- 

 veyors, practical lumbermen and land cruisers. More stringent 

 laws regarding the setting of forest fires were needed, and there 

 should be permanent fire guardians, whose beat should not 

 exceed one hundred square miles. Forest reserves should be 

 maintained at the headwaters of all the principal streams. 

 After referring to the export of Christmas trees, he took up at 

 some length the question of the export of pulpwood. "The 

 Americans want our pulpwood to save their own. We want their 

 mills, not only to increase our industrial employment, but so 

 that they will have a large investment depending on our forests 

 and thus give them an interest with us in conserving our forests." 

 He quoted at length from the statements made by the Interna- 

 tional Paper Company to the Ways and Means Committee of 

 the Congress of the United States in the tariff investigations 

 and also from Dun's Bulletin, with the object of bringing 

 before the minds of his hearers the value of the Canadian forest 

 product and also to show that the people of the United States 

 wanted Canadian wood in order to save their own. He con- 

 cluded by urging his hearers to take a practical interest in 

 forestr\^ questions. 



Dr. a. T. Drummond. 



A paper by Dr. A. T. Drummond was then read by Mr. 

 R. H. Campbell. Mr. Drummond treated a number of the 

 practical questions confronting Canada, in respect to her forests, 

 at the present time, and concluded by summarizing his points 

 as follows: — 



The Governments of Ontario and Quebec should each 

 establish a Bureau of Forestry. 



Trained foresters should be permanently employed in the 

 supervision of the forests with a view to the protection, the 

 methodical cutting and the continuity of these forests. 



Holders of licenses should be compelled to cut their timber 

 on some approved forestry plan, to leave standing a certain 

 number of pine and spruce trees on every square mile for the 

 purpose of natural seeding, and should be required to plant 

 annually and protect several pine and spruce seedlings for 

 every tree of these species which they cut down. 



Holders of timber licenses should be required, before the 

 close of each winter, to effectually dispose of all debris arising 

 from the cutting down and trimming of their trees. 



Railway companies and mill owners operating within the 

 forest areas should, during the summer and autumn months, 

 be under strict obligation to protect, by night as well as by day, 

 from fire, a defined area or strip on each side of the railway or 

 mill, with a large penalty for failure to do so. 



