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set the pace in lumbering for all the United States, but they never knew the- 

 forest as a field of growing crops. Their love and interest stopped at the 

 log and the small white pine was mere "brush" and of no value. 



This attitude has lost us millions of dollars and is one of the great 

 causes why we import our better class of timber today, whereas fifteen years 

 ago, we were among the greatest export States of the World. We have 

 learned our lesson, we now know that the man who is to care for the forest, 

 must be trained, not as a logger, but asa farmer ; he must love the young 

 tree, know the seed and the seedling and delight in its care and its growth. 

 But this kind of training he does not get in the lumber camp, he gets it at 

 a school where the forest is treated, is spoken of and read about as a grow- 

 ing crop ; where a man's duty with regard to the forest is not summed up in 

 "cheap logging " but in "proper care," and where the very atmosphere of the 

 place tells him of the Tree as a living being of the utmost importance to man 

 and as being worthy cf man's best efforts. 



We, here, believe that it is not necessary to load great administrative 

 burdens on a young graduate of a Forestry School, nor turn to an inexperi- 

 enced man large properties without council and safeguard of older experi- 

 enced heads ; but we do also believe that not a single tree should be cut un- 



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til a man has marked it who loves the tree as a living being, rather than as- 

 a pile of logs. 



The logger has laid millions of acres of our lands waste, we look to the- 

 Forester to rebuild the forest and reclothe these lands and make them pro- 

 ductive. 



With my sincere good wishes for the work of your Convention, be- 

 lieve me, 



Sincerely Yours, 



ROTH. 



The Premier read a paper by Mr. John Robinson, Jr., subject : "Forest 



Fire Ranging." 







HON. R J. SWEENEY, 



Moncton, N. B. 



DEAR SIR, 



I regret very much that I cannot be present to take. part in the Forestry 



