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be advisable to call such a Congress for 

 January or February of 1915, and ap- 

 pointed a committee to give the Prime Min- 

 ister any assistance possible in this matter. 

 This committee, of which Mr. A. S. Good- 

 eve is chairman, met and drew up a series 

 of suggestions for which they were thanked 

 by the Prime Minister. 



Just after the conclusion of the Secre- 

 tary 's trip in Nova Scotia a communica- 

 tion was received from one of the Prime 

 Minister's secretaries stating that Sir Eob- 

 ert Borden was ready to take up the matter. 

 The Secretary immediately wrote on behalf 

 of Mr. Goodeve expressing the conunittee's 

 willingness to act and asking for some 

 necessary information upon which to begin. 

 Before there was time to receive an answer 

 to this letter hostilities had broken out and 

 nothing further has been heard of the 

 matter. 



Pure Maple Products. 



Toward the close of the 1914 regular ses- 

 sion of Parliament the Secretary, upon the 

 invitation of the Pure Maple Products As- 

 sociation of Quebec, attended a deputation 

 which pressed upon the Minister of Inland 

 Eevenue greater strictness in the law re- 

 garding the sale of maple sugar and maple 

 syrup. The deputation was successful in its 

 object and it is now illegal to use the word 

 ' ' maple ' ' in connection with any sugar or 

 syrup which is not wholly the product of 

 the maple tree. 



Publication Work. 



Other work of the Association has been 

 carried on as actively as the circumstances 

 of the year permitted. The Canadian For- 

 estry Journal was issued nine times during 

 the year, and reports of the worl: in French 

 were sent month by month to tae Journal 

 d 'Agriculture, Quebec. The report in French 

 of the three latest conventions was issued 

 in October and sent to a list of names 

 throughout Canada, but chiefly in the pro- 

 vince of Quebec. Notice of the issue of 

 the same was sent to all French newspapers 

 in Canada, and since that time there has 

 been a steady demand for copies. 



A number of bulletins have been issued 

 as in past years, but greater attention was 

 paid this year than ever before to the pre- 

 paring of short individual articles for dif- 

 ferent newspapers and magazines. These 

 articles have been very gladly leceived and 

 given prominent positions, and sometimes 

 illustrated by engravings. This is a feature 

 of the work capable of great expansion. 

 There is very little cost attached to it aside 

 from the time necessary to prepare the 

 articles. 



Membership Details. 



The income of the Association from mem- 

 bers' fees was about $400 less than in 1913. 

 This was caused by the fact that no con- 

 vention was held, as a number of new mem- 

 bers join at every convention, and because 

 of the fact that, owing to war, it was not 

 possible to carry on an autumn membership 

 campaign. The number of new members 

 who joined during the year was 263, and 

 of those who resigned, died or were dropped 

 for non-payment of dues, 304, leaving the 

 membership 2,993. 



^Vhile the circle of Directors has not been 

 broken during the year the Association has 

 lost an unusual number of its prominent 

 members by death, the list including Mr. 

 M. M. Boyd, Lt.-Col. Jeffrey H. Burland, 

 Hon. Colin Campbell, Hon. Wni. Gibson, Mr. 

 John Gillies, Mr. A. H. Hilyard, Hon. Eobert 

 Jaffray, Hon. J. N. Kirchhoflfer, Hon. David 

 Laird, Mr. H, H. Lyman, Mr. V. R. Mar- 

 shall, Hon. F. D. Monk, Sir Geo. Ross, Dr. 

 William Saunders, Lt.-Col. D. R. Wilkie and 

 Sir William Whyte. 



The Dominion Government and the Gov- 

 ernments of the provinces of Ontario, Que- 

 bec and British Columbia have continued 

 their grants, and some of the banks and 

 lumber and pulp companies have subscribed 

 for a number of officers. The Bank of 

 Nova Scotia was added to the list of banks 

 supporting the Association in this way. 



The effect of the cancelling of the con- 

 vention was that while most of the expenses 

 for the same were incurred there was not 

 the benefit to income accruing from a con- 

 vention, while the war seriously interfered 

 with our finances. In spite of these draw- 

 backs the Association ends the year with a 

 balance of about $600. 



General Forestry Conditions. 



Throughout Canada in spite of the war 

 there has been continued progress in forest 

 conservation. The season was, all over Can- 

 ada, an unusually bad one for fires, and 

 heavy losses are reported at different points. 

 In the Maritime provinces and extreme 

 eastern part of Quebec there was a fair 

 amount of rain, but west of that to the 

 Pacific coast drought conditions prevailed 

 practically all through the season until 

 snow came. But while there has, pro- 

 bably, not been such a bad fire season for 

 ten years, on the other hand never before in 

 the history of Canada were such determined 

 efforts put forth to prevent and suppress 

 fires. There are many weak spots in the 

 different fire protective services in Canada, 

 but the number of strong places is con- 

 stantly growing larger. 



