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CANADIAN VOEESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



This will give some idea of the scope of the subject of lumbering and 

 related industries, and will show how a practical course in this important 

 branch of forestry may be developed here in our own Province. But it is 

 not the only one, and in the conference on education the necessity of a 

 thorough training in technical forestry along with the work in lumbering 

 was very strongly emphasized. 



No small part of our course we hope to be the work of the Forestry 

 Club, composed of students of the Department. It secures speakers on 

 lumbering and related subjects, and many of these talks, such as that given 

 last year by Mr. Charles E. Oak, of the Miramichi Lumber Company, 

 have been very helpful. One of the questions discussed at Washington was 

 how to weed out students who were not fitted for forestry, or had entered it 

 with false impressions. If any teacher wishes to try a little experiment in 

 painless extraction of indifferent or misfit students, I would strongly advise 

 that he have Mr. Oak come and give the students a talk. One application 

 is sufficient and will keep the ambulance busy picking up those who have 

 fallen by the wayside. I still hear of students lost to my Department and 

 Forestry, thanks to Mr. Oak's talk on the advantages of the profession as 

 a muscle builder. Such students need a vigorous thinning early in the 

 course, and I am happy to say that, although our number is small, we have 

 no room for this class. All are zealous in their work, and in so far as we 

 can implant it, imbued with the idea that in Forestry there must be much 

 of self-sacrifice and hardship. This idea will, I believe, do much to prevent 

 the over-crowding of the profession, which some of the educators seem to 

 fear. 



What attention should be given to cruising and estimating as part of 



the course in a lumbering region? In an article in the last Forestry Quar- 



terly, "Why American Foresters Are Poorly Trained," a professor makes 



this statement: "The employment of a forester by a lumber company for 



the better cruising of its timber is an insult to the profession and a disgrace 



to the man who continues to hold such a position and contents himself with 



such work." What more legitimate and honorable work is there for the 



forester in this Province than the cruising of timber and the making of ac- 



curate maps of forest property? With the rise in stumpage prices and the 



-increasing demand for timber lands from outside parties, lumbermen 



mng that they must have more accurate maps and estimates ot 



lings, and if the forester is not the proper person to undertake this 



It is just as much a part of it as other more theoretical 



; and the fact that Austin Gary and others have done cruising and 



for lumber companies is evidence enough that this statement 



wrong. Have men of his type, by seeking to give us more accurate 



i of cruising and mapping, lowered in the least the dignity of the 



s sum? On the other hand have they not done much more to advance 



ie who, overstocked with dignity, was trying to make vield tables, 



Prov nf m .TV" 8 Pkn ? f r Which We are " ot adv in 



ce, and may not be for years? 



P p Ft - f the . Foreste <-'s training, and one which cannot be 

 Province in my opinion, is this very matter of cruising 

 Because of the demand for such work by lumbermen, and 



