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attention to them, and suggest some ways that to my mind would be the 

 best means to get at the practical side of the question ; because, although 

 we are hearing a number of addresses connected with Forestry that are all 

 proper and right and of inestimable value, still they are generalities in a 

 way. We all know what is being said, that there is a necessity for Forestry 

 protection, that the depleting of the forests is ruining our water power, and 

 ruining our resources, but the question is how to get clown to the commercial 

 part of the question, and how to get the dollars and cents out of it. In this 

 programme there is no question of forming an association for that purpose. 

 I think it would be a very good plan to form a Provincial Forestry Associa- 

 tion, subservient to, and to work along something of the same lines as the 

 Canadian Forestry Association, whose scope is much broader. In order to 

 do so, I think it would be a very good idea to have a committee appointed 

 to report back to the Convention. In the whole matter there is no mention 

 made of the pulp industry, and it is that pulp wood industry that is doing 

 more harm to the Province than anything else. I claim that the pulp industry 

 should be made subservient to the lumber industry. You cannot prevent a 

 man who owns a farm from selling his wood-lot in the rear to owners of a 

 pulp mill, but from the Crown Land this cutting of pulp wood can be 

 hindered ; and with the improved methods there are now of making pulp 

 there is no reason why the pulp mill and the manufacture of pulp should 

 not be a by-product of the saw mills. The wood that comes from the saw 

 mills can be used, and even the saw-dust can be used in the making of pulp. 

 A saw mill might have a pulp mill in connection with it and thus use the 

 refuse wood from it. 



Another thing I think needs revising and amending, is the matter of 

 the surveying of lumber. The Act on the Statute Books with reference to 

 the surveying of lumber is as antiquated as log driving itself is in New 

 Brunswick. It deals largely with square timber, of which the Premier told 

 us there was more than forty tons shipped last year. The quantity of feet 

 allowed in logs eleven inches in diameter, is quite ample ; but when you 

 come into the smaller size of logs, the table as given is more than any man 

 can saw out of a log. I am manager and represent a milling firm in 

 John that lias the most modern mill, the newest mill, in St. John, if not i 

 the Province, where we use the finest gauge saws possible. After we have 

 taken the deals out of it, the proportion of slabs and deal ends is smalle 

 than that in any other mill, but we use modern appliances, 

 quantity out of the log that the New Brunswick table gives, is all 

 can do and the man who has the old fashioned tools cannot do it at all. So 



