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them again as nothing else will, but it will not repair in a day or a month or a year 

 the misuse which destroyed them. But Canada is evidently not delaying until, 

 the harm has been largely done before she attempts to cure it. She is taking forestry, 

 so to speak, as a preventive, not waiting until she is forced to it as a remedy. What 

 those 150 million acres of forest reserves in British Columbia and your effective 

 management of them will do to make the great future before your country even more 

 permanently and intrinsically great, no man can estimate. And the Forest 

 Service, which I have the honour to represent, congratulates you more warmly 

 than I can readily say upon having taken this great step forward in your progress 

 towards the conservation of your forests and not only upon having taken it,, 

 but upon having taken it in time. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Thursday, March 12th, 1908. 



At the afternoon session the president was accompanied to the dais by His 

 Grace Archbishop Bruchesi, Mgr. Racicot, Co-Adjutor Bishop of Montreal, and 

 Canon Dauth of Laval University. 



The PRESIDENT. It is proposed to postpone the reading of the report of the- 

 Board of Directors and the Treasurer until to-morrow, and in the meantime we pur- 

 pose going on with papers, and discussions on them. I would like to say now that 

 instead of calling upon certain people to speak, we will leave the discussion perfect- 

 ly open, so that any one who wishes to take part in the discussion will be welcome. 

 We think that this is better than naming certain parties, because it gives the dis- 

 cussion much wider scope. 



I will now call upon Mgr. Laflamme to read his paper. 



THE MANNER IN WHICH SOME FARMERS USE THEIR WOOD. 

 MGR. J. U. K. LAFLAMME, DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF LAVAL.. 



In the notes which follow, I shall limit myself to the farmers of the Province of 

 Quebec, and I shall even limit the extent of my work to the district of Quebec 

 properly so called, because it is with this that I am most familiar. Nevertheless, 

 I believe that the economic conditions of the rest of the province are practically the 

 same, if one keeps in mind the modifications resulting from local circumstances 

 which necessarily vary from one region to another. 



We. know from the official censuses that, of all the countries of the world, the 

 United States uses the largest quantity of wood in proportion to its population. 

 We used to think that increase in the use of materials of construction, unknown fifty 

 years ago, iron and concrete, would diminish this consumption of wood, but in 

 reality it has not done so. On the contrary it is averred that from year to year 



