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Canadian Forestry Journal, December, 1915. 



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Ready-Prepared Lectures 

 on Forest Questions 



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The Secretary has in course of 

 preparation a series of lectures 

 on interesting topics identified 

 with forest protection, which 

 will be sent upon request to any 

 part of Canada. These ready- 

 to-hand lectures will be accom- 

 panied by sets of twenty-five or 

 fifty lantern slides which will 

 sufficiently illustrate the sub- 

 ject. The manuscript and slides 

 will be sent out at the Associa- 

 tion's expense and the first of 

 these will probably be ready 

 about January 15th. 



This is a new departure and is 

 designed to meet a demand for 

 popular talks on forest matters. 

 Requests have been .received 

 from Scout Masters, clergymen, 

 women's clubs, etc., in many 

 parts of the country. The dis- 

 tribution of these lectures will 

 materially supplement the series 

 to be delivered personally by the 

 Secretary. 



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1 Newspaper Cartoons \ 



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Another recent undertaking 

 by the Association has been a 

 series of newspaper cartoons, 

 drawn by a well-known Cana- 

 dian artist, H. B. Moyer, of the 

 Toronto Star, dealing with for- 

 est protection topics. The first 

 of these is now in the hands of 

 about thirty Ontario news- 

 papers, as the subject referred 

 particularly to that province. 



The Association takes care of 

 wide distribution by means of 

 paper matrices and stereotypes 

 (processes of cheap duplication) 

 which are placed with editors in 

 whatever part of Canada the 



cartoon was designed to apply 

 to. Copies of the cartoons will 

 be reproduced in future issues of 

 the Forestry Journal. The news- 

 paper cartoon is one of the 

 hardest-hitting devices with 

 which public opinion can be af- 

 fected and may be employed to 

 splendid effect in the work of 

 the Canadian Forestry Associa- 

 tion, 



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Stories for School-children 



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Talks on Forestry for chil- 

 dren are being- sent out by the 

 Association to school teachers 

 under various attractive head- 

 ings. The matter is all in story 

 or semi-story form and in many 

 cases the manuscripts furnished 

 to teachers will be accompanied 

 by sets of photographs which 

 can be passed about a class 

 room. 



In nearly all Canadian schools 

 a portion of Friday afternoon is 

 devoted to miscellaneous read- 

 ing and it has been shown that 

 sim.ple talks on forest subjects 

 would be acceptable to teachers 

 and pupils alike. In this way, 

 the inculcation of the rudim.ents 

 of Forestry may be assisted 

 from a new angle. 



Government Ownership 



The outlook for the practice of 

 forestry in Canada is vastly improv- 

 ed by the fact that the fundamental 

 ownership of a very large percentage 

 of non-agricultural lands has been 

 retained b}^ the Crown, instead of 

 passing- into private ownership, as 

 has so largely taken place in the 

 United States. Very seldom can 

 private land-owners afford to hold 

 cut-over forest lands for successive 

 crops of timber. This is essentially 

 a governmental function, on account 

 of the long-time element involved. 



