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northern climate at least sixty years to produce a saw log from the seed, and to secure 

 an acre of saw logs of medium size not less than eighty or one hundred years must 

 be allowed. This time element is naturally discouraging to private enterprise 

 which engages in business for immediate results. The average lumberman can, there- 

 fore, not be expected to go far in conservative methods, unless he contemplates a 

 long future for his business, or is compensated by the community. 



7. Forestry is the business of the State or Municipality. The long time element 

 makes it incumbent on the guardians of the future to undertake the business of 

 forest cropping. Moreover, forestry, as far as it is concerned in the reproduction 

 of a crop for a distant future, means financially " foregoing present revenue or 

 making present expenditure or investments for the sake of future revenues." It 

 is profitable only in the long run, and hence again, although there are ways in 

 which the forester can be of financial value to the present day lumberman, only 

 governments can -finally engage in providing for the future. 



FOURTH SESSION 



Friday afternoon, March 13th, 1908. 



After the noon adjournment on the resumption of the Convention, Mr. Achille 

 Bergevin was called upon to address the meeting. 



Opening in English he said : I am proud to see so many men of importance 

 attending this Convention on behalf of the different American States, which are 

 increasingly learning to look upon Canada as the future source of their pulpwood. I 

 regret to say I am not sufficiently master of the English language to deliver my 

 address in English. I shall therefore speak to you on behalf of the Association for 

 the Protection of Fish and Game in Quebec, in French, and Mr. Armstrong, who is 

 interested in the same thing, will speak to you in English. 



ADDRESS OF ACHILLE BERGEVIN, M.P.P. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, This congress of the Forestry Associa- 

 tion is undoubtedly one of the most important that has been held since the founda- 

 tion of the Association. I am proud to see at the head of the Association a man 

 so distinguished as Mr. H. M. Price, and to see that he sees proper to devote much' 

 of his time to this forestry question, so important for our Province and our country. 



The presence of the representative of His Majesty, His Honour the Lieutenant- 

 Go vernor of the Province of Quebec; of his Grace, Monseigneur Bruchesi; of 

 Monseigneur Laflamme, that apostle.of the forest, who has given to our Province 

 so much useful information on forestry questions; of the Hon. Mr. Fisher, the 

 Minister of Agriculture, and of so many other distinguished persons, shows to what 

 extent interest is felt in the preservation of our forests. 



The history of older nations which have seen their forest wealth disappear, 

 and even of the new countries which are already deprived, in great part, of their 



