NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 



and that is a short course for lumbermen ; a short course to give the men 

 in the woods sealers and others some knowledge of the tree itself. I 



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think it would be a capital idea. Not necessarily that the person going 

 there should pursue the full course, but should have means of acquiring a 

 certain amount of technical knowledge of the tree, its diseases, etc. 



The last speaker has referred to the work done by the Forestry service 

 at Washington, and I have no disposition to criticise it at all ; but that ser- 

 vice is crippled. They have not the chance to do the work we have in 

 Canada, as they are confined to the forest reserves, and they have had tires 

 in the State of Washington which have destroyed billions upon billions of 

 timber outside of the reserves. In British Columbia we have a railway belt 

 owned by the Dominion Government, extending about twenty miles each side 

 of the C. P. R. for a distance of 500 miles. This was a contribution from 

 the British Columbia Government to the Dominion Government towards the 

 building of the C. P. R. We have divided this belt into tracts or belts and 

 appointed a head fire ranger, with eight or ten rangers under him, and for 

 the live or six years this has been guarded we have lost scarcely any timber. 

 I just mention this to show the advantage of fire guardian service. Outside 

 of this railway belt is Provincial territory, where they have not had this 

 service and they have lost an immense amount of timber, so much so that 

 the people of British Columbia are now agitating for a similar service to 

 that within the railvyay belt. 



MR. H. R. MCMILLAN In reply to the question asked about the 

 Yale Forestry School I might say there are at present 69 students there, 

 and the lumbermen have become so much interested in it and so much 

 impressed with what it can do for the lumber industry that they have seen 

 fit to endow a chair in lumbering, and every year are demanding more of 

 the graduates ; but they do not place a man directly in a high position who 

 comes from some other part of the country and doesn't know anything cf 

 the local conditions. They usually require him to go into the camps and 

 work as chopper or swamper, or in some such capacity, until he is as able 

 to take charge of the camp as any lumber boss, and then he gets a better 

 position and becomes a valuable man. 



MR. TWEEDIE I may say that within a short time several large 



employers of labor throughout the Province, principally lumbermen, have 

 spoken and written to me with regard to the scarcity of labor, and asked of 

 the policy of the Government in regard to immigration, and a delegation 



