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Newspaper publicity also gave much 

 attention to this subject. We had 

 communicated with the Minister of 

 Agriculture and a large number of 

 the members of the House of Com- 

 mons placing before them the serious 

 danger certain to follow neglect of 

 the blister rust menace and asking 

 support for the Dominion appro- 

 priation of $50,000 to assist pre- 

 ventive work in Eastern Canada. 

 This grant passed the House without 

 opposition. 



At the beginning of the season 

 among many similar schemes to 

 awaken public apprehension of the 

 forest fire danger we addressed ap- 

 peals to 6,000 Canadian clergymen 

 drawing to their attention the need 

 for public warnings regarding the 

 consecpiences of carelessness of fire 

 while in or near timbered areas and 

 asking their co-operation in spreading 

 these hints on fire prevention. While 

 unable to trace the results of this 

 appeal we know that in many cases, 

 at least, pulpit announcements were 

 based upon it. 



Special Advertising 

 Early in the Spring four hundred 

 lumber firms were supplied with ad- 

 vertisements setting forth the case 

 for personal care in the forest, and 

 in scores of instances the firms placed 

 the ads. in their local papers and in 

 magazines at their own expense. 

 This will be made an annual enter- 

 prise. 



The Canadian Forestry Journal 

 has given the Association's work 

 vigorous support and has kept in 

 view its chief office as a propagandist 

 organ. The loyalty of our old mem- 

 bers and the adherence of so many 

 n,ew members is very largely due to 

 having a monthly medium capable 

 of popularizing the forest conserva- 

 tion cause. The Association desires 

 to improve the Journal substan- 

 tially in 1918. The cost of magazine 

 publication has risen rapidly forcing 

 many to forego book paper and il- 

 lustrations and to increase their 

 subscription rates. 



For propagandist purposes, fifty 

 copies of the Journal are sent monthly 

 to the Reading Camp Association 



which places them with lumber camps. 

 Copies also now appear on twenty- 

 four Pullman cars and on the tables 

 of the leading clubs and in some of 

 the convalescent homes of the Mili- 

 tary Hospitals Commission. 



Best Year Financiallij 

 Financially, we have had our most 

 advance year with total revenues of 

 $11,773, and total expenditures of 

 $10,801.45 leaving a balance at 

 December 31st of $972.46. 



At midsummer, the Association 

 applied to the Minister of Finance 

 for an extra grant of ore thousand 

 dollars to develop the work during 

 the remainder of the year and this 

 was given. Special subscriptions were 

 secured from the following firms: 



Howard Smith Paper Mills, Ltd., 

 $100. 



J. R. Booth, $200. 



St. Maurice Paper Co., $50. • 



River Quelle Pulp and Lumber Co., 



Brown Corporation, $150. 



Riordon Pulp and Paper Co., $150. 



Sir Clifford Sifton, $100. 



Sir George Perley, $25. . 



Hull Lumber Co., $25. 



H. H. Hettler Lumber Co., $50. 



Provincial Paper Mill, $50. 



Hon. Richard Turner, $25.00. 



J. K. Macdonald, Toronto, $10. 



W. E. Bigwood, Toronto, $50. 



E. B. Eddy Co., $100. 



A. H. Campbell, Toronto, $25. 



Pembroke Lumber Co., $25. 



Whalen Pulp & Paper Mills Van- 

 couver, $100. 



M. J. O'Brien, Renfrew, $100. 



Colonial Lumber Co., $25. 



Belgo Canadian Pulp & Paper Co., 

 $100. 



Canada Paper Co., $100. 



Bronson Company, $100. 



Wavagamack Pulp and Paper Co., 

 $25. 



Hon. N. Curry, Montreal, $50. 



McLaren Lumber Co., $100. 



Lake Megantic Pulp Co., $50. 



St. Maurice Forest Protective As- 

 sociation, $100. 



Donnacona Paper Co., $100. 



Ontario Paper Company, $100. 



Total 



5,235. 



