Canadian Forestry Journal, February, ipi6. 



397 



The lecture programme of the 

 winter of 1915-16 was commenced 

 by the Secretary at Shawbridge, 

 Quebec, and will be continued at 

 other points. Requests from distant 

 communities for lectures on forest 

 questions brought about a scheme of 

 ready-prepared lectures in which 

 authoritative material in lecture 

 form will be sent to local speakers 

 together with fifty lantern slides, il- 

 lustrating the subject sufficiently. 

 Many demands for this ready-pre- 

 pared lecture have been received and 

 sets will go out before the end of 

 January. The idea has been further 

 extended so as to cover simple stor- 

 ies for school-children which will be 

 sent out to teachers with small al- 

 bums of photographs to pass about 

 the class-room. 



Co-operating with Boards. 



Seventy Boards of Trade in On- 

 tario have been brought into touch 

 with the Association through an ef- 

 fort to interest them in the forest 

 protection policies of that province 

 and to secure their endorsation of 

 the most modern laws and adminis- 

 tration that can be introduced. The 

 Board officials and their members 

 were given information as to the im- 

 portance of protecting the raw ma- 

 terials for forest industries in that 

 province, and these matters with 

 formal resolutions will be brought 

 up at many of the annual meetings 

 in 1916. This plan of interesting 

 powerful public bodies in campaign- 

 ing for specific points is capable of 

 great extension and will be used in 

 other parts of the country as freely 

 as opportunity offers. Women's 

 institutes and clubs, farmers clubs, 

 etc., have been interested by the As- 

 sociation in the same department of 

 work and results may shortly be ex- 

 pected. 



Another form of co-operation has 

 been with the Cardinal-Archbishop 

 of Quebec who has given the Asso- 

 ciation's proposals kind considera- 

 tion and has responded with assur- 

 ances that the clergy in the parishes 



would further instruct the people in 

 the facts of forest protection. 



The Association has also endeav- 

 ored to be of use to the two co-op- 

 erative forest protective associations 

 in Quebec by arranging thrugh their 

 mangers for the prompt reporting of 

 all prosecutions of settlers. These 

 prosecutions were made into news- 

 paper articles, French and English, 

 and circulated through the large 

 dailies and weeklies in most sections 

 of Quebec province. In this manner 

 the effect of the prosecutions was 

 greatly increased. 



Adding Nezv Members. 



A continuous effort was exerted 

 to bring in new members. The re- 

 sult was that 450 Canadians joined 

 the Association and practically all 

 of this gain came between the first 

 membership campaign at the first of 

 August and the close of the year. 

 Forty-five members were lost to the 

 Association during the year, mostly 

 through death or enlistment for the 

 war or removal from localities with- 

 out trace of their new addresses. 

 Undoubtedly the efforts to secure 

 new members would have added a 

 much larger number had it not been 

 for the disturbance of normal public 

 interest through war conditions. 



The funds of the Association, al- 

 though subjected to new expense by 

 reason of the enlargement of the 

 programme were increased by the 

 additional membership of $450 with- 

 in the year. In addition to this, 

 the Secretar}' commenced the or- 

 ganization of a new fund in Decem- 

 ber for the support of the Associa- 

 tion's work and at the present time 

 is able to report that amounts have 

 been paid in or promised by indi- 

 viduals and corporations reaching 

 $600 in hundred-dollar contribu- 

 tions. The development of this new 

 fund will be carried on during 1916. 



