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I will not go over the other speakers, but I am sure if all this programme is 

 carried through, information and instruction of very great importance to the people 

 of this country will be provided, and that inspiration will be given to arouse the 

 enthusiasm of new workers which will excite you to still further work and interest 

 in this matter. 



I thank you, Mr. President and officers of the Canadian Forestry Association, 

 for the opportunity you have given me of coming before you and saying a few 

 words. I hope to be able to take some part to-morrow in the real work of the Con- 

 vention, and in concluding I must wish that you Foresters of Canada shall have 

 very success in this most important work which you have undertaken in the in- 

 terest of the whole country. (Loud applause). 



The PRESIDENT. We must all thank the Honourable Mr. Fisher most heartily 

 for the statesmanlike, common sense, and practical address that he has given us. 

 When we remember the extent of his duties at Ottawa, which are constantly calling 

 him, and consider that he has given us so much of his time to come here for two 

 days to encourage the work of this Association, I think we should appreciate it 

 .at its true worth. Mr. Fisher in his remarks has certainly spoken out fearlessly 

 of what he has thought, and that is a great thing for anyone addressing a Conven- 

 tion like this, that they should say what is uppermost in their minds, rather than 

 try to say those things that they think will please the majority. Mr. Fisher has 

 not only shown himself a practical technical forester, but that he is willing to take 

 an active interest and give a great deal of work to the interests of what we are 

 trying to advocate to-day. 



I may mention that as a director of this Association, we have never found Mr. 

 Fisher lacking at our meetings. He has always come to them putting other things 

 aside, which says a great deal for a Minister of the Crown of this Dominion. When 

 Mr. Fisher mentioned the different parties whom we have specially to thank for 

 papers to come before this convention between now and to-morrow afternoon he 

 sees a friend of ours who has always shown himself most cordially interested in this 

 Association, Mr. Overton Price, Assistant Forester of the United States. Perhaps 

 some of you do not know just what that means. It means that Mr. Price is second 

 in command of that great organization, the Forest Service of the United States, at 

 whose head presides Mr. Gifford Pinchot, whose name is a household word all over 

 this Continent. I am not wrong, I think, in stating that in that Bureau of Forestry 

 there are about 1300 employees, and it means a great deal for people to be able to 

 guide successfully the work of such an enormous organization. And that Bureau 

 not only works on paper, but practically, and I am sure that in the address that 1 

 will now ask him to give you, that he will show himself a practical as well as a theor- 

 etical forester.. I will now ask Mr. Price to address the Convention. 



