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country's resources fifty years hence, there is another thing to be thought of, and 

 without presuming to offer anything in the nature of a resolution, I would ask to 

 be allowed to emphazize the aspect brought up recently at the meeting at Ottawa, 

 that the Association inaugurate steps looking to the popularization of printed mater- 

 ial which is now available for its members and others, and very especially, that as 

 soon as possible an attempt be made to bring this matter before more of our people 

 than the University students. It is, I understand, already in use at the University, 

 of Toronto, and will be introduced this summer in New Brunswick. But that is 

 not enough. A short course should be arranged for our normal colleges and brought 

 before Teachers' Institutes throughout the Dominion with the splendid illustra- 

 tive materials that is available in the older countries. Whilst we do not advocate 

 the preparation of a great exhibit, we do advocate that all children in Canada 

 should be asked to do what Sir William Macdonald and Dr. Robertson suggested 

 in respect to seed grain, that they should be taught to know and love the work 

 which will result in making two bushes grow where before there was but one. They 

 started with a very crude test, only a matter of co-relation and co-ordination with 

 what has been done in other departments of horticulture and I trust this popular- 

 izing of the movement Dr. Fernow is associated with, and which at present makes 

 us all look to Toronto University, as we cannot to any other place in Canada, to 

 give information in a good, direct form, in small doses, to children, will be carried 

 on in Canada. This will do much more good than the issuing of any amount of 

 information in newspaper paragraphs or in the literature of your Society. I would 

 suggest that a move be made to emphasize this aspect of the educational work 

 which has already been so ably dwelt upon by Mr. Armstrong in his paper. 



Mr. WM. LITTLE. I would like to present a paper on " The Alarming Destruc- 

 tion of American Forests, A Timber Famine in Sight." If you have not the 

 time at your disposal for me to read this paper, I would like to submit it. I assure 

 you there is nothing political or unpatriotic in it, and I would ask that this paper 

 be printed in your report. 



The President suggested leaving the paper over for the consideration of the 

 incoming Board of Directors which afterward accepted the paper for publication. 



Dr. FERNOW. With regard to the education of the young, I would like to say 

 a few words to plead guilty of misconception in former years. I am a professional 

 forester and when I started on this propaganda I supposed I was appealing to 

 men and that they were the proper people to secure the proper methods of treating 

 their own property. If I had ever thought that it would take twenty-five years to 

 make as short a step as we have taken in that direction I should certainly have 

 favoured beginning at the schools. At every meeting in the early history of the 

 Association there was sure to be somebody who said that what we wanted to have 

 in the nation must first be put into the schools. That is a good German philosophy, 

 and it was resolved that the Association should instruct the young in the schools, 



