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Second Economics. This is a subject of extreme value, to consider 

 the matter of trade movements, the effect of tariff rates, etc. 



Third The subjects of the Engineering course, such as the "theory of 

 earth pressure and application to retaining walls, sewers, tunnels, etc." 

 This matter of earth pressure, so far as the retaining walls are concerned, in 

 damning streams so as to have a uniform supply of water, would be a very 

 helpful subject of study. 



Fourth "Foundations," as in Engineering Course. With reference to 

 the bearing power of soils and drainage of foundations, etc. 



Fifth -"Road and Highway Construction." This is a subject I noticed 

 in the curriculum of all the forestry schools the subject of road making and 

 of course that is a very practical one for the forester, in connection with 

 intelligent lumbering. 



Six and Seven Subjects of Drawing and Surveying, so far as they 

 relate to matters in connection with forestry. 



Eight Dendrology (the natural history of trees). 



In the Ninth, I have added the subject of the Diseases of Trees, the 

 causes, nature and remedies. And it has just occurred to rue that I might 

 have added the subject of Insect Pests. And going back for a moment to 

 the attitude of the schools towards forestry, I feel that in this Province we 

 shall, in a very few years, be face to face with a very great difficulty in the 

 matter of the Gipsy Moth and the Brown Tailed Moth, which are causing a 

 great deal of destruction in the State of Maine, and are marching with a host 

 towards this province. Many trees have been entirely stripped of their 

 leaves by this pest, and I think the people of the Province should be 

 awakened to a knowledge of this pest, and be able to st-jmp it out in its 

 initial stages ; and the children of the schools could do a great deal to help 

 along this line ; if they had a description of the moth they would be able to 

 recognize it, and could help to kill it out, and in this way a great deal of ex- 

 penditure of public money might be saved in the future.. 



Then, taking up the subjects of the Third year of the proposed Course 

 again, we have in the Tenth subject, the " preservation of timber : lasting 

 powers of various species. Seasoning of wood. Methods of preserving 

 timber. " And in the Eleventh and last subject, we have " Forest tech- 

 nology : Normal and abnormal characteristics of wood, etc." 



