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maintain a high ideal of your professional dignity. The world will have no 

 higher idea of your profession than you have of it yourself." . . . "Do 

 the job yourself and don't ask to have every step outlined for you. People 

 are looking for men to whom they can turn over a job and -go away and 

 know it will be done. Go ahead and try and don't ask how to do it." 

 This faculty to inspire others lies at the foundation of the success of the 

 American Forest Service, and the love and loyalty which every member of 

 it has for his Chief. The cultivation of a similar spirit amongst Canadian 

 foresters will do more for the advancement of our profession and for the 

 cause of forestry in general than all other things combined. 



THE PRESIDENT : Before we adjourn I wish to name the Committee on 

 Resolutions: Messrs. Stewart, Price, Southworth, J. B. Miller, R. H. 

 Campbell, Whitham, Chown. If these gentlemen can meet to-morrow morn- 

 ing at 9 o'clock, go over the resolutions and be ready to report upon them 

 early in the afternoon it will be advisable. 



SECOND DAY MORNING SESSION. 



FRIDAY, February 12th, 1909. 

 Convention resumed at 10 o'clock a.m. 



THE PRESIDENT : The first paper this morning is one by Dr. Fernow. 



Dr. FERNOW was received with applause, and said : I am glad you 

 are applauding at the beginning, because after I have finished you may 

 not want to repeat it. (Laughter.) I have attempted nothing but the re- 

 formulation of what we have formulated again and again at these meet- 

 ings. I do not pretend to present anything really new. Whatever may 

 seem to be new is merely re-formulated. I wish also to say that as in 

 church the preacher goes over the same ground again and again because 

 most of his congregation require pulling up, so there are many things 

 in our profession that are done, and yet when we state "What we want" we 

 still include them because here and there they are not done. Yesterday 

 we heard how much had been done in New Brunswick and how much in 

 Ontario, and I do not propose to criticise the absence of those doings. 



WHAT WE WANT. 



BY DR. B. E. FERNOW, DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF FORESTRY, UNIVERSITY OF 



TORONTO. 



More than half a century ago a few farseeing men warned the Canadian 

 people that their timber wealth was not inexhaustible. Among them was 

 James Little, a lumberman, a man who knew the woods and knew what he 

 was talking about. 



