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Canadian Forestry Journal, March, ipi6. 



The Results of Public Lectures 



The public lecture programme in- 

 volving two lectures daily was car- 

 ried out by the Secretary during the 

 two weeks ending Saturday, Febru- 

 ary 26th, the territory covered repre- 

 senting Winnipeg, Port Arthur, Fort 

 William, and Sudbury. 



The newspapers at these points 

 gave unstinted publicity to the pro- 

 paganda in advance of, and during, 

 the Secretary's visits. Columns of 

 space were devoted by the Winnipeg 

 newspapers to forest conservation 

 matters in the form of interviews, 

 reports of the lectures, and edi- 

 torially. 



The senior students of technical 

 schools and collegiate institutes 

 were frequently assembled for an 

 hour, while the lecturer outlined the 

 story of Canada's forest industries, 

 the importance of maintaining the 

 storehouse of raw materials, the 

 damage wrought by forest fires on 

 standing timber and stream protec- 

 tion, the work of fire rangers, etc., 

 etc. The attention given was in- 

 variably good, and one-hundred pic- 



tures on the screen accentuated the 

 impressions of Canada's forest 

 needs. 



At Winnipeg, the Secretary was 

 privileged to discuss Avith Hon. T. 

 C. Norris, Premier of the Province, 

 and the majority of his Cabinet 

 Ministers the desire of conservation- 

 ists for better co-operation between 

 provincial aathorities and those re- 

 sponsible for the care of the forest 

 reserves. It was pointed out that 

 the reserves required protection 

 from settlers' fires on their borders 

 and had suffered greatly from this 

 source, that a policy of careful 

 guarding and development by the 

 Dominion Forestry Branch would 

 inevitably bring great benefits to 

 the surrounding country in increased 

 supplies of wood for settlers and 

 ultimately the starting of new in- 

 dustries. The Premier and Minis- 

 ters gave the presentation a cour- 

 teous hearing. 



Other lectures have been arranged 

 for Cobalt, Sault Ste. Marie, Lon- 

 don, Hamilton, Toronto, Montreal, 

 Brockville, and other centres. 



Fighting Forest Insects 



Some little time ago Canadians 

 were startled by the news that an 

 outbreak of forest insects had oc- 

 curred in Stanley Park, Vancouver, 

 and that there was danger of a great 

 part of that magnificent timber be- 

 ing destroyed. At the last monthly 

 meeting of the Foresters' Club of 

 Ottawa held at the University Club, 

 Mr. J. M. Swaine, entomologist for 

 forest insects in the Department of 

 Agriculture, told how that outbreak 

 had been first checked, and then 

 beaten off. This came as an inci- 

 dent in his address on forest insects 



in Canada, which address was illus- 

 trated by lantern views and made 

 still more plain by the exhibit of 

 samples of the wood and bark of 

 destroyed trees, and by specimens 

 of the insects which did the damage. 



Mr. Swaine told of his work in the 

 past three years to learn the life his- 

 tory of insects not yet fully studied 

 and to devise and apply measures to 

 combat their destructive work, and 

 to save timber areas that had been 

 attacked. 



There was not a dull or uneduca- 

 tive minute in the whole lecture. 



