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and those have been widely employed 

 in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick 

 and Nova Scotia. By arranging an 

 itinerary with Boards of Education, 

 churches, leaders of Boy Scouts and 

 others, these sets go direct from town 

 to town where advance arrangements 

 have been made for meetings. Each 

 lecture set consists of from 50 to 55 

 lantern slides, mostly in colors, and a 

 complete manuscript — the whole 

 securely boxed against breakage. 

 With these travelling lectures opera- 

 ting almost continually, each re- 

 sponsible for from two to five lec- 

 tures a week with the exception of 

 midsummer, a very large audience in 

 the aggregate is reached. 



Winning the Children 

 To get into contact with a greater 

 number of the school children than 

 can be reached in any other way, 

 three thousand school teachers selec- 

 ted for- us by their school inspectors, 

 were supplied with special forestry 

 talks for the children, called "Ad- 

 ventures in the Forest." With each 

 talk went two large printed cards 

 bearing two photographic illustrations 

 and two cartoons which are passed 

 about the classroom at the close of the 

 teacher's address. In many schools, 

 essays are set on the Association's 

 talks. This branch of our propa- 

 ganda will be widely developed if our 

 means permit. 



A commencement was'made in the 

 circuiting of motion picture films. 

 The supply of films of educational 

 value is not only very limited but 

 the cost bears heavily upon the 

 Association's small revenues. How- 

 ever, it is hoped to develop a Film 

 Library for circulation in timbered 

 districts. At present the Secretary 

 utilizes motion pictures at most of his 

 lectures. 



Helpful Literature 

 In the field of direct educational 

 work through printed literature, the 

 Association has gone to the limit of its 

 purse. Publications for school child- 

 ren, boy scouts, settlers, railway 

 employees, etc., have been prepared 

 and issued in as large editions as the 



funds could bear. While substantial 

 ground has been covered, it is the 

 Association's hope that Governments 

 and private corporations will take up 

 the duty of spreading educational 

 literature, and thereby more ade- 

 quately cover the ground. Fourteen 

 thousand copies of ' "Mon Premier 

 Livre Sur la Foret" were given careful 

 circulation in Quebec, New Bruns- 

 wick and some in Manitoba. Ten 

 thousand of "Your Enemy's Photo- 

 graph" in two languages were handed 

 to settlers. Substantial editions of 

 "Provincial Rights and the Western 

 Forests," "The Forests of New 

 Brunswick," "Fire," "Who Loses?" 

 "Open Seasons for Fish and Game," 

 "Timber Reserves in Canada and 

 Europe," "Adventures in the Forest," 

 "The Pine Tree^" "White Pine Blister 

 Rust," etc., reached a large public 

 such publication being directed where 

 it would do most good. Our method 

 of distribution safeguards against 

 waste as small packets of copies are 

 sent to persons actively co-operating 

 without work, or delivered direct, 

 by post to the ultimate reader. 



The Forestry Association's mail- 

 bag of out-going literature in 1917 

 contained a total of over 200,000 

 pieces. 



To Save the White Pine 

 Steps were taken in April and May 

 to arouse public interest in the white 

 pine blister rust which menaced the 

 white pine areas of Eastern Canada. 

 A popularly-written expert treatise 

 on the subject of the white pine rust 

 was prepared at our request by Dr. 

 Gussow of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, and 3,000 copies of it in 

 pamphlet form, well illustrated, were 

 sent through the white pine districts 

 of Ontario, Quebec and parts of New 

 Brunswick. The Association com- 

 municated with the local councils 

 and school boards of practically all of 

 the towns within reach of white pine 

 areas, supplying them with education- 

 al literature on the subject and asking 

 their co-operation in getting the 

 school children, boy scouts and others 

 at work, so as to locate infections. 



