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organization in Canada, and I honour them for it and congratulate them upon this 

 change. I want to impress still more upon them that if they spent even more of 

 their profits and in that business their profits are large, very large, I do not know 

 anybody in Canada making more money in Canada in the last few years than lum- 

 bermen. I say this without reflection or reproach. I congratulate them on it. 

 It is their right and it is wise that they should do so. But they might spend a little 

 more of these profits in the conservation of their patrimony, rather than try to 

 make a little more money in immediate returns. (Applause). 



I have touched lightly upon a number of points which I think are of importance 

 in connection with this question of forestry. I do not intend to make an exhaus- 

 tive address. I see by your programme that you have the advantage of papers or 

 addresses by experts, and let me say here that this is a subject of science a sub- 

 ject in which we require the aid of experts. Mere rule of thumb in the methods of 

 forestry and of lumbering in Canada, is no longer sufficient. We want to give the 

 lead to the men who have studied these questions by scientific methods, who are 

 experts. We have here on this programme, first Mgr. Laflamme. Let me say again 

 that I am proud and glad to find so distinguished a member of the Roman Catholic 

 Church in Canada engaged in this research. Everywhere throughout Canada his 

 name is known as a student, as an expert, and I am quite sure the paper he will 

 read to us will be of the greatest value, not only to this Convention but to the country 

 and I hope that later on it will be distributed everywhere. He is speaking for the 

 farmer, and with due deference to my French Canadian compatriots, I think there 

 are no farmers in Canada to-day who require instruction more upon forestry 

 methods and the value of trees in the practice of agriculture than our French 

 Canadian habitants. I say this without reflection or reproach. Our English 

 speaking farmers are only too near them in that respect. But I hope that as a re- 

 sult of the work of such gentlemen as Mgr. Laflamme, the French Canadian Habi- 

 tant will speedily awake to the necessity of changing his methods and to the im- 

 portance of the conservation of what woodlands he has, and to the further impor- 

 tance of adding to it by planting, as has been so well done at Oka. 



Again, I find we are to have an illustrated lecture by Professor Roth, Principal 

 of the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Michigan. I welcome to this con- 

 vention the Foresters who are representing the United States Forest Service, which 

 is taking the lead in this work. I may say that although the United States have 

 large forest areas, not so large as ours, and although they have done much in 

 the way of forestry they have shown us the lead and given us an example which 

 it is well we should follow in Canada, and spend more money on this work. We 

 are not as rich as the United States, and cannot spend so much, but we can wor.k as 

 well and I think we should take hold of this work and learn from their example, 

 and for this reason I am glad that there should be a representative of their work to 

 tell us how it should be done. 



