NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 7$ 



seed-trees which they do not pay for, and that they are assisted in their 

 scaling, and in that supervision of cutting crews which is necessary to pre- 

 vent waste. On the other hand, they are furnished with maps showing the 

 lay of the land and the situation. Also they know that they may depend' 

 upon a fixed supply of timber in any locality, and that fire protection is- 

 assured. In this way forestry is a guarantee of continued lumbering. 



That such a sensible and business-like management of the reserves is a; 

 good investment is proven by the fact that though the staff of the adminis- 

 tration is increasing and expenses are increasing the forest service is asking 

 for a smaller appropriation this year than last, and has made a definite 

 promise that in five years, in spite of many new projects requiring increased 

 expenditure, it will be self-supporting, and will have ambitions to become 

 revenue-producing. . 



I have only given a skeleton of the methods at present practised on this- 

 continent under the name of forestry, with a very faint conception of the re- 

 sults to be obtained, and with the hope, that upon her magnificent, unalien- 

 ated forest areas New Brunswick, profiting by the example which she has so- 

 near at hand, will build up a forestry policy which will be so statesman-like 

 and so successful as to excite the emulation of the other Canadian Provinces 

 and of the Government of the Dominion itself. 



The meeting was then declared open for discussion, in which the 

 following took part : 



Mr. Hazen, M. P. P., Dr. Jones, Mr. Stewart, Mr. McMillan, Hon. Mr. 

 Tweedie. 



MR. HAZEN The Chancellor of the University gave us a very inter- 

 esting address this afternoon on Education and Forestry and we were all 

 very much obliged to him for the great trouble he went to in preparing and 

 submitting in such detail the courses of study necessary in a course of study 

 of that sort. I would like to ask him if he pursued his inquiry far enough 

 to know whether in a university like Yale they are taken advantage of by 

 many students, and if among the lumbermen of the country there is much 

 demand for the services of those students after they graduate from the 

 institution, having taken the course which he has suggested. 



CHANCELLOR JONES I did not count up the number of students 



