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which the Government contemplates doing. In Fredericton there are many 

 good saw-mills which will give our men ample opportunity to study milling 

 operations and to learn the cost of equipment and labour; whilst the booms 

 above the city furnish an excellent opportunity for the study of scaling and 

 rafting. As for practical experience in the woods some of our lumbermen 

 have already offered to take the men into their camps, to which we most 

 heartily agree. At the Provincial Forestry Convention of 1907 it was pro- 

 posed to have a summer school camp, where the sons of lumbermen and 

 others could receive instruction. It is a good idea and might be joined with 

 the present Engineering Camp in the summer. Men with some experience 

 have a good chance to work in the Canadian Service, and our Juniors intend 

 to go this summer. This experience will be very valuable and develop in 

 them the staying qualities. Many details remain to be worked out and 

 require more than one year for execution. 



Ever since landing on Canadian soil I have been so cordially received 

 by the provincial officials, members of the forestry profession and all classes 

 of people interested in forest preservation, that I feel it a work worthy of 

 my best mettle; work for that great principle which, conceived by such men 

 as Rosevelt and Pinchot, has broken down every barrier between the United 

 States and Canada and made the foresters of both countries join hands as 

 brothers across the line to fight for its furtherance the conservation of 

 natural resources. I am glad that I may have some part, however small, in 

 this great work for posterity. 



In conclusion let me say that I deem it a privilege to attend such a gath- 

 ering as this and to receive instruction and profit by the interchange of the 

 latest ideas among men who have made forestry and lumbering a life study. 

 This is a great privilege, especially for a young man and the distinctive 

 thing about forestry is that "it lays heavy responsibility upon young 

 shoulders." I feel that I shall return to the Province of New Brunswick 

 and the University fired with a new ambition for my work and a fuller 

 realization of the responsibility which devolves upon any one trying to 

 impart forestry instruction. I feel that the question is not how many, but 

 how good foresters we can turn out. Those who will be impressed (as they 

 encounter "the great white silence" of the New Brunswick woods, snow 

 clad and majestic) with the responsibility of the profession which they are 

 to enter and take time "to get rich in the woods," to wrest from nature, by 

 constant and close oommunion with her, those secrets concerning the regen- 

 eration and care of the forests which she guards so zealously will be worthy 

 of her closest confidence. 



Any inspiration which I have brought to New Brunswick I. owe 'largely 

 to the influence of one man a loyal son of old Yale the Chief of the 

 United States Forest Service, Mr. Gifford Pinchot. On his father's beauti- 

 ful estate, among the hills of Pennsylvania, I received my first , forestry 

 instruction and listened to his talks around the evening camp-fires. Later, 

 at New Haven, when discouraged over subjects which did not seem to have 

 any possible bearing on forestry counting the abdominal segments of some 

 obscure species of beetle or poring over the intricacies of primary and sec- 

 ondary meristem his talks always came at the critical time to infuse us 

 with new life and keep us pressing on to the goal. I remember on one 

 occasion, especially, when in just such a mood as this, some expressions of 

 his I shall never forget : "Take time to get rich, loaf in the woods." 

 "Get the long-distance view." "The forester is more truly a nation builder 

 than any other man in the United States." . . . "Stick together and 



