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ago, and he said that he had to import all the White Walnut, or Butternut, 

 ,that he used now. 



I think the Government is to be congratulated, Mr. Premier, on insti- 

 tuting this Forestry Convention at this time. I am a little surprised that 

 there are not more here ; such a valuable opportunity as this affords of 

 learning something about Forestry, I think should be taken advantage of. 

 I suppose in no country in the world have we better natural conditions for 

 the growth of trees than in New Brunswick ; certainly, there is no country 

 better watered, where there is such a net-work of streams and rivers as we 

 have in New Brunswick, and the intimate connection between these streams 

 and rivers and forest growth was very well pointed out, I think, this morn- 

 ing by President Stewart ; although perhaps he did not go far enough in 

 regard to one point, which I would like to emphasize, that is, that if we cut 

 down the forests on our hillsides and the neighborhood of our sources of 

 rivers, we are cutting away one of the assets of our Province. We all know 

 ias he pointed out, the condition of such countries as Spain, where the growth 

 has long ago been cut down, and where there are now bare rocks upon the 

 mountain side there was only a little soil and that has washed away. Well, 

 what does it do ? It brings down the dirt in summer, and renders our 

 :streams and rivers not navigable ; then again, when freshets come, they 

 carry away this valuable alluvial soil, and instead of depositing its loam, with 

 4i moderate freshet, this great freshet comes and sweeps it out to sea, where 

 perhaps it may be useful some thousand years from now, when these lands 

 rise and become part of our coast country, but that is a time that is rather 

 too remote to be of any use to us 



I say then, in closing, that I congratulate the Province that this 

 Forestry Convention is in order, and is so well established as it is today, and 

 I hope, as you expressed this morning, Sir, that we may have something 

 permanent in this as an annual Forestry Convention. 



Dr. C. C. Jones, of the University of New Brunswick, then addressed 

 jthe Convention as below : 



C. C. JONES, ESQ., M. A. PH. D. 

 Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick 



THE ATTITUDE OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TOWARD FORESTRY 



Mr. Premier, Gentlemen : The subject that has been assigned to me for 

 discussion is "the Attitude of Educational Institutions Towards Forestry." 



