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others present were W. L. Scandrett and J. Albert Hand, London; Frank S. 

 Pearce, Marmora; T. W. Dwight, Picton; H. L. Lovering, Coldwater; J. 

 Hutchinson, Guelph; E. Hawthorne, Warsaw; Charles Dowling, Brantford; 

 H. S. Irwin, Kamloops, B.C. ; F. M. Mitchell, Athens, Pa. ; Lloyd C. Tilt, 

 Blair; Thos. Stewart, Lindsay; W. T. C. Boyd, Bobcaygeon; D. James, 

 Thornhill; A. McPherson, Longford Mills; W. H. Calhoun, Shelburne. 



The President, Mr. W. B. Snowball, was accompanied to the chair by 

 His Excellency Earl Grey, Governor-General of the Dominion <;f Canada; 

 His Honour J. M. Gibson, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario; 

 Honourable Sydney Fisher, Minister of Agriculture for the Dominion; and 

 Honourable W. C. H. Grimmer, Surveyor-General of New Brunswick. 



THE PRESIDENT : Ladies and Gentlemen, We are pleased to have with 

 us to-day His Excellency, the Governor-General, who has promised to open 

 this meeting of the Canadian Forestry Association for us. I have now 

 much pleasure in calling upon Earl Grey. 



THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S ADDRESS. 



Mr. Chairman', Ladies and Gentlemen, In opening the proceedings 

 of this Conference it would appear to be hardly necessary to comment at 

 any length upon the supreme importance of the subject which will engage 

 your attention for the next two days. 



It is now -generally admitted, by all who have made a study of this 

 question, that forestry by which term I mean the scientific management 

 of forest areas has an intimate bearing on the agricultural and industrial 

 prosperity of a nation, and upon its health and happiness as well. 



It is now accepted by all authorities that uncontrolled deforestration 

 means a gigantic amount of fertile soil annually washed off denuded hills 

 by spring floods into streams and rivers, and prolonged droughts in the 

 summer and autumn, with consequent failure of crops and resulting famine. 



The President of the United States has called the attention of the 

 American people to the fact that owing to the reckless misuse of their splen- 

 did forests, they will soon be confronted with an impending timber famine, 

 unless vigorous measures are immediately taken to arrest all further exploi- 

 tation of the remaining forests by selfish and uncontrolled licensees, with- 

 out any regard to the interests of posterity. 



For the last 133 years in the United States the principle of individual 

 enterprise for personal benefit, with selfish disregard for the public interest, 

 would appear to have been allowed unchecked and unregulated sway. It is 

 now realised that unless the people of the whole continent of North America 

 adopt the principle of subordinating individual interests to the well-being 



