NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 65 



In summing up this paper I would recommend : 



1st. More effectual means for the protection from forest fires. 

 2nd. The separation of timber lands from agricultural lands. 

 3rd. A carefully selected corps of permanently employed foresters. 

 4th. Restrictions as to the cutting of undersized lumber and the 

 removal of top logs. 



Perhaps I may be expected to add reafforestation, and while much can 

 be said about tree planting I am of the opinion our efforts at present will be 

 better met by a more efficient preservation of our forests and more careful 

 cutting of the standing timber. 



~ CJ 



New Brunswick has yet a noble heritage in her forests. Let us then 

 work together to preserve this heritage, so that we ourselves and future 

 generations may reap the benefits which nature has so lavishly bestowed. 



In conclusion, again, let us not forget the old Scotch saying : 



"Be aye stickin' in a tree, it'll 

 Be growin' when ye're sleepin'." 



Mr. H. B. McMillan, of the Yale School of Forestry, read a paper. 



H. B. MCMILLAN, B. s. A., 



Yale Forest School 

 FIRST METHODS OF FORESTRY 



So much more has been written concerning the why than the how of 

 Forestry and so many reasons have been advanced for the protection of 

 forests without an accompanying explanation of this protection that a short 

 general discussion of the first steps taken in the establishment of a forest 

 policy in a country previously without one seems to be in order. 



For our examples it is better to go to the United States than to Europe 

 since their problems are more nearly like ours and since oar solutions, owing 

 to similarity in lumbering methods, labour conditions and market facilities, 

 must closely resemble those of cur Southern neighbor. 



Our Canadian forests because of their widespread extent are exposed to 



