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so that they will do better work than they have been doing. Some Pro- 

 vinces, like mine, are so small and so restricted in resources that they can- 

 not do very much; but they could do a good deal more than they are doing, 

 and I hope the word that goes forth from this Convention will have an 

 influence in stimulating and causing them to do a great deal more than 

 they are doing. What we want, it seems, is a general stock-taking, that 

 we may know what we have in the way of forest resources in all the 

 Provinces of Canada. Once that is known, we would be very foolish indeed 

 if we did not try to conserve those resources in the interests of the gener- 

 ations that are yet to come, so that they may live in some kind of comfort 

 and happiness, and have the resources conserved that will give them a ready 

 living. I have no report to make from my Province. I can only say that 

 w r hile we have perhaps the most fertile spot in the whole of this continent, 

 and while we are a good, loyal, industrious people down there, our forests 

 are not what we would like to have them, and we would be very glad indeed 

 to secure some system whereby this Forestry Association or the Federal 

 Government would send professors down there to teach the people how 

 best to replant farm plots since our farmers own all the land, and in- 

 other ways help us restore in that beautiful Province the proportion which 

 should always exist between its forests and its fields. I hope it will be 

 done shortly. When it is done it will be very much to our interests. I 

 am very glad that, with Mr. Macoun, I was instrumental, in havifig the 

 Journal established, and I trust that no one will lose courage if this Asso- 

 ciaton does not seem to have done much. I believe, with Mr. Stewart, that 

 it has done a great deal, and that its capacity for doing is almost infinite. 

 (Applause). 



Dr. FERNOW : I am filled with remorse that I should have given rise 

 to this discussion, for there was nothing farther from my mind than to 

 criticise the work of the Association. (Voices "No, no.)" Brevity has 

 been my enemy in this case. I did not stop long enough to laud all the 

 efforts of the past. I certainly did not mean to minimize them or disparage 

 them. Any one who is acquainted with my past life would know that for a 

 quarter of a century I have helped in the States to do the same things that 

 this Association is doing. (Hear, hear). I should know more than anybody 

 else where the shoe pinches and where the difficulties lie, and the propa- 

 ganda for which this Association stands. I wanted to accentuate the pro- 

 gress that I proposed. The things that we are helping to do are all good 

 and to the point, but is there really no other point of attack that we may 

 devise? When the automobile came into the field there were a good many 

 people who said the horse was doomed to extinction, but I have not seen 

 any falling off in the use of horseflesh. When air-ships come into general 

 use, I think automobiles will still run around on the ground. In the same 

 way, I think that all the work this Association has done is to the point and 

 should be maintained, only let us add to it if we can see something new. 

 One proposal is to have a paid secretary. Nothing better can be done if 



