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' \Vi.>;hing yourself an«l the AshOciatimi all 

 success during the coming year. " 



HON. JULES ALLARD, Minister of 

 Lands and Forests, Quebec, acknowledges 

 the notification of his election, and adds: 

 ' I have had opportunity to appreciate the 

 round work of the Association, espeiially in 

 the study of means to be adopted for the 

 intelligent management and the effective 

 j>rote(tion of our forests. The Canadian 

 Forestry Association can rely upon my 

 hearty support. ' 



HOX. W. R. ROSS, Minister of Lands, 

 British Columbia, writes: 'I beg to ac- 

 knowledge receipt of your letter of the 9th 

 February advising me of my re-election as 

 Vice-President for the Province of British 

 Columbia of the Canadian Forestry Associ- 

 ation, and wish to express my appreciation 

 of the honour thus conferred.' 



HOX. O. T. DANIELS, Attorney General 

 and Commissioner of Lands, Nova Scotia, in 

 accepting the office, adds: 'I shall be very 

 glad to be kept informed of the work of the 

 Association in connection with the care and 

 preservation of the forests of the country 

 and the development of forestry generally. ' 



The Vice-Chancellor of the Archiliocese 

 of Montreal, acknowledges the notification 

 of the election of HIS GRACE, ARCH- 

 BISHOP BRUCHESI, and continues: 

 'Archbishop Bruchesi wishes to thank you 

 for this kind information and appreciates 

 the honour very much, also your kindness 

 in promising to send him information con- 

 cerning the work of the Association. ' 



From a Saskatchewan Merchant 



Many thanks for your kind letter of the 

 4th inst. which reached me today, and am 

 very glad to learn that your lantern slide 

 showing part of the green ash plantation 

 has turned out so well and is creating inter- 

 est in your good work lecturing to the pub- 

 lic. I shall feel well repaid for my labours 

 if I can be the means of inducing others 

 to follow my example. 



From a Winnipeg Eailiray Man 



1 have the object of the Association very 

 much at heart, and if any experience I may 

 have had dealing with forestry may be of 

 any use to you, I shall be more than glad 

 to place it at your disposal. That the rail- 

 roads are alive to the importance of fire 

 prevention and forest protection is evi- 

 denced by the action of the C. N. R. in hav- 

 ing a man specially detailed to look after 

 that end of the work. Washing your Asso- 

 ciation all success. 



From a Member who lives mtich abroad. 



Do you make it clear enough that when 

 our coal has all gone, if we keep the woods 



they will supply our heat through water 

 power, by electricity. If not we shouM have 

 to get out of North America; proltably, 

 something like the Chinese who at one time 

 held and governed the j)resent City of Dres- 

 den and had probably to retire into Asia 

 because of successive dry years which could 

 not support their nation. 



From an Old Resident of Xorfolk County, 

 Ont. 



My memory goes back to the latter 50*8, 

 CO's and 70 's when I saw Norfolk County's 

 lovely forest wealth in all its glory and 

 beauty. As Mr. Geo. Hotchkiss, the Secre- 

 tary of the Northwestern Lumbermen s As- 

 sociation with headquarters at Chicago, 

 wrote nu^, Norfolk County had the finest 

 pine timber that ever grew out of the earth. 

 But it is all gone now, and ignorance, greecl 

 and stupidity have destroyed in the past, 

 and now are destroj'ing every woodland 

 beauty spot we had. There are roads I will 

 not travel on if I can help it because of the 

 absence of our former lovel}' timber wealth. 

 There is one word that for me expresses the 

 way our forest riches in Norfolk County 

 have been use, namely, * brutal '. 



HIS CONTRIBUTION. 



Town Councillor. — 'Have you heard, Mr. 

 Skinflint, that our generous townsman, Mr. 

 Cashbags is defraying the cost of a new 

 promenade all around the tow-n? We think 

 a wealthy man like yourself might also 

 do something for us.' 



Skinflint. — 'Well, what do you say to my 

 giving you a park of oak trees?' 



Town Councillor. — 'Oh, you noble-hearted 

 philanthropist! AMiv, do vou really mean 

 to— 



SkinflintJ — 'Yes, yes; I'll make the town 



a present of an oak forest. You have only 



to find the land and I'll supply you with aa 



many acorns as you may wish for seed.' 



Strenuous Life in B.C. 



Echoes of the strenuous life of a District 

 Forester in northern British Columbia are 

 found in the following extracts from a re- 

 cent letter from H. S. Irwin, of Prince 

 Rupert: — 'We get all kinds of excitement 

 out of logging inspcj'tion during the storms 

 and fogs of a northern winter, in a small 

 launch, anil, as logging regulation is our 

 chief worry in this district, trouble never 

 ceases. We 'get ours' all the year round, 

 while the average forester out here gets most 

 of his ' bumps ' concentrated into the summer 

 season. ' 



