72 CANADIAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



ADDRESSES OF REPRESENTATIVES. 



The representative men who made brief addresses were: Mr. W. R. 

 Brown, Secretary of the New Hampshire Forestry Commission; Mr. G. C. 

 Piche, M.F., Chief Forest Engineer, Department of Lands and Forests, 

 Quebec; Hon. A. B. Warburton, M.P., Prince Edward Island; Mr. E. J. 

 Zavitz, B.A., M.S.F., Professor of Forestry, Ontario Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Guelph; and Mr. Abraham Knechtel, F.E., Inspector of Dominion 

 Forest Reserves. 



Mr. Brown and Mr. Zavitz, who were to read papers during the 

 morning, brought words of greeting from their respective spheres. 



PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 



Mr. Warburton spoke of the fact that some years ago he was called 

 upon to prepare a report on Forestry in Prince Edward Island. He dis- 

 covered the serious inroads being made on the north shore of the island by 

 sand, and steps were taken to remedy this. Mr. Warburton referred to 

 the successful efforts, under somewhat similar conditions, in Gascony, on 

 the west coast of France; Denmark, North Carolina, and Cape Cod. In 

 the latter, sand districts had been reclaimed and were bearing good crops 

 of cranberries; and bushes and small trees were beginning to grow. His 

 investigations led him to believe the north shore of Prince Edward Island 

 had once been heavily timbered and that the cutting away of the trees had 

 allowed it to become a prey to the shifting sand. He had urged the Gov- 

 ernment to_jnake a test to see if the sand dunes could not be covered again 

 with growing trees. 



CONDITIONS IN QUEBEC. 



Mr. Piche said he owed the honor of being present to the fact that he 

 came at the request of Hon. Jules Allard, Minister of Lands and Forests 

 for Quebec, who, owing to Parliamentary engagements, was unable to be 

 present, but who sent his regrets and desired him to express his wishes for 

 the complete success of the Convention. Mr. Piche snowed that in 1905 

 the Government of Quebec selected two young men (Mr. Piche and Mr. 

 Bedard), and sent them to study forestry at Yale. On their return in 

 1907 they were given a small section of the Province to prove what they 

 could do. Instead of devoting time to Silvicultural studies, they felt it was 

 better to conserve what was left of the forests, and to this end to induce 

 limit holders and settlers to employ more conservative methods of lumber- 

 ing. To this they had devoted their energies, and they now had supervision 

 over lumbering operations covering one-half the Province, and they had 

 under them a corps of fifteen student-assistants, besides forest rangers. 

 They hoped that before long there would be a course in Protective Forestry 

 established in Quebec, enabling the Government and the lumbermen to 

 secure all the forest engineers and rangers needed. In 1908, a forest nur- 

 sery had been established, which grew about a half a million trees a year. 

 Next spring they expected to begin test work in reforesting by planting the 

 shifting sand districts in Berthier and Lanoraie. This was chiefly as an 

 object lesson to farmers, for he did not believe in spending $4,000 per 



