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Governments because the people are indifferent about conservation. Our 

 pulp and paper industry is now carefully studying forestry and has already 

 applied more conservative methods, and a good many firms will soon have 

 adopted thorough going systems and will be applying them as far as the 

 regulations will permit and where they are sure of retaining their timber. 

 The Canadian Pulp & Paper Manufacturers think that the exportation of 

 pulp wood fosters a careless use of the forests and that Canada has not 

 enough pulp wood to afford this, and that the government should find out 

 what we have and adopt a well-founded policy rather than let matters drift, 

 as at present. 



I have just found out that besides the Laurentides and Union Bag and 

 Riordan Paper Mills, the Parsons Paper Co. and the Miramichi Company 

 are also making forest studies, making five concerns altogether, two of them 

 Canadian and three from the United States. (Applause.) 



THE PRESIDENT : Before taking up the next paper we would like to bring 

 in the resolutions. 



MR. BERGEVIN : Before the Resolution Committee reports will you allow 

 me to suggest another resolution? (Reading draft resolution relating to 

 school text book on Forestry.) (See page 147.) 



MR. LITTLE : I would second that resolution. (Applause.) 



DELEGATE : Some ideas of horticulture and arboriculture might be added 

 to that. 



MR. LITTLE : Better confine it to the one thing. 



The matter was deferred in order to take up Mr. Wilson's paper. 



MR. ELWOOD WILSON, forester for the Laurentide Paper Company, said : 

 I think I am the first forester to be employed by a commercial concern in 

 Canada, certainly jn the Province of Quebec. I have spent four years in the 

 woods, not only in making scientific studies but also in trying to find out 

 something of the economic and commercial conditions which exist. I have 

 also come in close contact with the Provincial Government. I have been 

 called on to organize a forest protection system against both waste and fire. 

 I have been in charge of a little over a million acres, and have had an 

 opportunity of learning what can be done in the way of fire protection and 

 in the way of preventing the waste. In all that I shall say in this paper 

 I want to call attention to a little motto which I saw when I was out in 

 Michigan last fall. The place where we held the meetings of the Michigan 

 Forestry Association had two large swing doors. On those doors there was a 

 sign in large letters "Push ; don't knock." (Laughter.) That is what I 

 g,m trying to do. 



