NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION' 



about, of course, by the forest presenting a barrier to any such slides ; and 

 I have already spoken of the diminution in the water supply of the country, 

 brought about by the cutting away of the forests along the banks of the 

 streams. All these might be made a matter of common observation to the 

 children of our schools, and stimulate and create a great amount of interest 

 in the forests of our country. 



Then, there is the result of Forestry on health. I think there is 

 nothing more healthful than to spend a few weeks iu the summer time on 

 the banks of some of the streams in the forest lands in New Brunswick ; and 

 I feel that it w.mld hi a v^ry sid day foV the Province of Naw Brunswick 

 it' the forests are allowed to be consumed, and this beautiful forest country 

 of ours devastated by the strenuous efforts of the wood-cutter and the 

 lumberman. I think, even on the ground of health and as a protection for 

 the wild animais and fur-bearing animals, there is a reason why our forests 

 should be protected ; arid that again is a matter that might be brought out 

 in the schools of our Province. 



Then, I need not speak of the beauty of our forest growth ; that is a 

 matter of common knowledge with everyone now. How the schools might 

 be stimulated along the lines 1 have suggested I feel might be more properly 

 left to my friend, Dr. Inch, who will follow me with an address on that 

 subject, and I feel that he is more competent to speak intelligently upon the 

 methods in which the school might develop this idea than I can. Sa. all I 

 shall say in reference to the matter will be. more along the line of what the 

 institutions of higher learning might do for Forestry. I would like to quote 

 a sentence from the speech of Earl Grey at the opening of the Forestry 

 Convention; he says. "I cannot commend to you too strongly the importance 

 of studying now, before it is too late, those methods and principles of forest 

 management which-the experience and research of other nations may indicate 

 to be best." 



And I have thought it worth while, Mr. Premier, to prepare a Syllabus 

 of a Course in Forestry, which might be established in connection with one 

 of our higher educational institutions of course, naturally, our own Pro- 

 vincial University. I have made rather a systematic study of the Syllabi of 

 the Courses in Forestry in connection with such schools as the Yale Forest 

 School, and the Biltmore Forest School in North Carolina, and I have been 

 surprised to tind that a great many of the courses laid down in their schools 

 are already covered in our University ; and I think that in this Province, 



