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opi)osition to the motion. Similar 

 legislation in various states had failed to 

 encourage tree-plantmg to any great 

 extent, he said, while it gave great 

 opportunities for attempts at fraud- 

 ulent entry. A similar scheme had been 

 tried in Canada, too, and had been 

 unsuccessful Few homesteaders, more- 

 over, could or would take the time to 

 plant up such an area during their first 

 years on their farms. Hon. W. R. 

 Motherwell endorsed what Mr. Ross 

 said, and Mr. A. P. Stevenson also spoke 

 against the motion, w^hfch was finally 

 withdrawn. 



A paper by Wm. Pearce, Esq., 

 Calgary, Vice-President for Alberta, on 



'The Conservation of National Re- 

 sources" was also put in, references to 

 which will appear in future issues of 

 The Forestry Journal. 

 y. Resolutions of thanks were also put 

 and carried to the following: The Lieut. - 

 Governor, Regina City Council, Regina 

 Board of Trade, Hon. Walter Scott, 

 Hon. W. R. Motherwell, Hon. J. A. 

 Calder, the Railway Companies and 

 the Press. 



Hon. W. T. Pipes was then asked to 

 leave the chair, and Hon. W. R. Mother- 

 well, seconded by Mr. A. P. Stevenson, 

 moved a resolution of thanks to him for 

 attending the convention (no doubt at 

 some personal sacrifice) and for presid- 

 ing. The motion was y>ut by Mr, R H. 

 Carripbell and unanimously carried amid 

 hearty applause. Hon Mr. Pipes made 

 a brief reply, after which the session 



adjourned. 



Friday Evening. 

 ' Friday evening was devoted to 

 lectures by Messrs. N. M. Ross and A. 

 Knechtel, each of which was profusely 

 illustrated with lantern slides. The 

 chair was occupied by His Worship 

 Mayor Williams, and the auditorium, in 

 which the lectures were held, was well 

 filled with appreciative listeners. 



Mr. Ross dealt with the work of the 

 Forest Nursery Station. The growing 

 of the deciduous trees was first taken up, 

 and the various steps in their culture, 

 including the sowing and cultivation, 

 and the processes of digging, bundling, 

 heeling-in, packing and sending out in 

 the spring described. Views were shown 

 of a homestead before planting and of 

 the same place some years later, also of 

 plantations of various ages, up to seven 



or eight years. The coniferous trees 

 and their culture were then dealt with. 

 Mr. Ross described at length the 

 structure of the cones and of the seed, 

 the extraction of the seed from the cones 

 and the preparation and care of the 

 seed-beds. The transplanting of the 

 young conifers was described and the 

 dangers to which they are subjected, 

 e.g., sunscald, to prevent which large 

 banks of snow must be held on the trees 

 during winter. The tamarack was also 

 spoken of, the lecturer commending it 

 as the most valuable conifer for prairie 

 planting, quickly attaining a size which 

 made it valuable for fuel and posts and 

 would ultimately make it of use in 

 producing ties and poles. The develop- 

 ment of the grounds at the Forest 

 Nursery Station from bare prairie in 

 1905 to their present beautiful condition 

 was also well illustrated. 



Mr. Knechtel's lecture was of a inore 

 general nature. He dealt with the 

 original forested state of the country and 

 the dangers of over-clearing, and point- 

 ed out the uses of forests in preserving 

 stream flow, retarding the evaporation 

 of snow and retaining the moisture, and 

 so lessening the danger from spring 

 floods. Other uses of the forest were the 

 preventing of erosion, the breaking of 

 the force of the wind and their sanitary 

 benefits. The danger to the forest from 

 fire and the necessity of fire protection 

 were enlarged on and the work of the 

 forest rangers described. The necessity 

 of reproduction and the destructive 

 effect on it of fire were enlarged on. The 

 planting of forest trees and the sub- 

 sequent care, thinnings, etc., were de- 

 scribed, and also the various parts of a 

 lumbering operation. The lecture con- 

 cluded with a number of scenes in 

 European forests and of autumn leaves. 



Excursion to Indi.^n Head. 



The .second day of the convention, 

 Saturday, September 4th, was taken up 

 with a visit to the Forest Nur.sery and 

 Experimental Farm at Indian Head. 

 About fifty took in the excursion. 

 Aid. Sinton representing the Regina 

 City Council and Messrs. P. McAra, 

 President, and H. C. Lawson, Secretary, 

 the Board of Trade. 



On arrival at Indian Head the party 

 was conveyed in carriages to the Forest 

 Nur.sery Station, where they assembled 

 in one of the large packing sheds, and 



