NEW BRUNSWICK FORESTRY CONVENTION 195 



en the Province might go through the Province and give forestry instruction 

 concerning some thing more than they at present know in reference to the 

 subject. 



Resolution presented, seconded by Mr. David Buckley : 



Whereas, there is not at present any institution in our Province provid- 

 ing a Forestry course ; and 



Whereas, practical men are required, trained in theoretical and practical 

 "knowledge, to conserve our forest wealth, 



Therefore resolved, that this Convention recommend the Government 

 to assist the University of New Brunswick to provide such a course as out- 

 lined by Chancellor Jones and also that the Government provide Forestry 

 instructors to give short courses throughout the Province of say 90 days in 

 each district, on the same principle as the Dairy School instructors. 



DR. G. U. HAY There is simply a suggestion or two I wish to make. 

 In common with all who heard Chancellor Jones yesterday in the syllabus 

 put out, I confess I was very much taken with that. I think we should have 

 (that subject in connection with our University of New Brunswick, and the 

 paper we heard this afternoon from Mr. Gary called attention to the fact that 

 we should have efficient and educated men to carry out Forestry regulations 

 in this Province. 



In the Yale Forestry School there is an important example to us per- 

 haps and that is this : Mr. Pinchaud, I think, made an endowment of a 

 quarter of a million dollars to establish that, and then the lumbermen of 

 Connecticut asked for an especial course for lumbermen who were to go in, 

 exactly similar to what is proposed by Chancellor Jones, and the Yale Uni- 

 versity said : If you will pay for this we will be very glad to let you have it, 

 and the lumbermen after consideration said that they would make an endow- 

 ment of $150,000 for that special course. Now we all know that any man 

 who was brought up among trees is a generous man and I think the lumber- 

 men of New Brunswick are not less generous than the lumbermen of Con- 

 necticut or any other State, and I think the fact may be left with them. . We 

 clo not want to send any man away to the Forestry School at Yale or 

 Harvard or Michigan if we can possibly help it, because they are generally 

 taken up there and we Jose their services. Here perhaps is a practical way. 

 We all know that perhaps the Government is spending as much money as it 



