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on the Yale catalogue, but I think there must be 65 or 70, and judging 

 from the announcement contained in the catalogue there is an exceedingly 

 great demand for trained men along this line, and I think the same is true 

 in connection with the Bilkmore Forestry School, which is largely a practi- 

 cal one. Of course they will not guarantee positions ; but they say there is 

 no trouble whatever for any young man who has taken their course of study 

 to obtain an exceedingly lucrative situation. 



J. FRASER GREGORY K the Ottawa Valley the lumbermen are 

 seeking these students continuously. Mr. Edwards told me he had several 

 of them in his employ. They are in great demand, and they cannot get 

 enough of them. 



MR. ELIHU STEWART -With reference to that I wouH say that 

 in the Forestry service which I have charge of I have had to go out of the 

 country in order to get trained foresters. I do not mean that I have been 

 engaging other than British subjects ; but they have been trained outside of 

 Canada. My first assistant was a graduate of Bilkmore, but a British sub- 

 ject and very anxious to get into our service. Since that I have had one 

 from Cornell aad two from Yale, and Mr. McMillan, who has just read a 

 paper to you, has been with us in the Northwest for three years, when he 

 has not been at College. 



As for the lumbermen employing trained students I am not aware that 

 :any of the Otta\va lumbermen have in their employ graduates of these insti- 

 tutions ; but I know the interest Mr. Edwards and other lumbermen have 

 taken in the matter, and I have no doubt that men familiar with the lumber 

 industry in this country, and with a technical knowledge, can get employ- 

 ment. The difficulty is to get men who are familiar with our woods. In 

 getting tire guardians in the West I have found it better to get men familiar 

 with the district, even without a technical training, than to take a technical 

 man from outside who was not familiar with it. That means we will have 

 to train men who are familiar with our own districts in order to be success- 

 ful in that line. 



In connection with the remarks made by the Chancellor I was very 

 much struck with the practical manner that he is going about it, in connec- 

 tion with the lectures that are already delivered at the university and which 

 take up much of the course adopted by the schools of Forestry. There was 

 thing I was going to speak of, and it was remarked by someone here, 



