PRESIDENT SNOWBALL'S ADDRESS. 



Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen, 



This is the first opportunity I have had of thanking you for the honour 

 you have conferred upon the Province of New Brunswick and upon myself, 

 by electing me President of this Association. 



I regret exceedingly that circumstances prevented me from being present 

 with you last year, as I was sorry to miss not only the educational advantages 

 of a meeting of this sort, but also the personal intercourse with other mem- 

 bers of the Association, for the exchange of ideas. 



On behalf of the Canadian Forestry Association, I welcome all the dele- 

 gates and other friends, who have met with us on this occasion, and trust 

 that our meeting will be a most profitable one. 



We are favoured by having the privilege of meeting in the Queen City 

 of Toronto ; famed alike for its commercial importance, its well known educa- 

 tional institutions and its natural beauty. Here we can get in touch with 

 the business men, who have large interests in our country, and students who 

 will be the men of the future ; and through this contact we should enlarge 

 the influence of our Association. 



As an Association, we have every reason to feel that we have taken no 

 small part in the awakening of public sentiment regarding forest preserva- 

 tion, along advanced lines. Largely through the instrumentality of our 

 Association, the University of Toronto has organized a Faculty of Forestry, 

 with Dr. Fernow as Dean. In several of our forestry conventions we have 

 all learned to admire him, and I am satisfied that under his able leadership 

 this school will be of great value to Canada in supplying her with technically 

 trained foresters. 



In my own Province, too, we have established a Department of Forestry 

 in the University of New Brunswick, with Professor R. B. Miller, M.A. 

 M.F., in charge. This step was the outcome of a resolution passed in the 

 preservation of our forest wealth, asking our Government to make a grant 

 towards the expense of establishing such a Department in our Prvincial Uai- 

 University. 



Personally, I do not think that any Government should stop with the 

 establishment of Forestry Schools, but they should also appoint lecturers 

 to visit the forested portions of the different provinces and give practical 

 talks on forestry subjects, in language easily understood by those who cannot 

 attend college, but who are anxious to extend their present knowledge of the 

 subject. Talks on fire fighting and precautions aarainst fire; on 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 raising trees from seed and planting them at the 

 least cost; how to combat the diseases of trees; with some practical instruc- 



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