. Canadian forest industries January-June 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 204 CANADA LUMJiERMAN AND W OO D \V (J R K 1. l; M Keeping Unimpaired Canada's Timber Wealth How to Increase the Earning Capacity of the Capital Invested in the Forests—Funda- mental Objects in Safeguarding Great National Assets Bv Dr. C. D. Howe, Faculty of Forestry. University of Toronto. Dr. C. D. Howe Not long ago J attended a meeting of business and univer- sity professors gathered to listen to reports upon the progress of industrial research in Cana
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 204 CANADA LUMJiERMAN AND W OO D \V (J R K 1. l; M Keeping Unimpaired Canada's Timber Wealth How to Increase the Earning Capacity of the Capital Invested in the Forests—Funda- mental Objects in Safeguarding Great National Assets Bv Dr. C. D. Howe, Faculty of Forestry. University of Toronto. Dr. C. D. Howe Not long ago J attended a meeting of business and univer- sity professors gathered to listen to reports upon the progress of industrial research in Canada. Be- ing Toronto business men and, therefore, doers as well as seers, some of them seemed inclined to express impatience that matters in the hands of the Research Council at Ottawa had not devel- oped more rapidly. One of the gentlemen made the remark: "C"anada stands almost naked of industrial research, of co-opera- tion between the scientist and the business ; Another, in re- ])lying, said, in efifect: "We must liave patience. New ideas develoj) ; Then to use what he doubtless considered a convincing illustration, he remarked, with a great deal of emphasis: "1 remem- ber 25 or 30 years ago we had to be told what forestry meant. It was an entirely new thing. Now, every big lumber company or ])ulpwood concern has a forester. They could not do business without ; The statements of these two gentlemen made a dee]) impression upon me, the first because of its terse descriptive quality, and the second because of the j^rofundity of ignorance which it displayed. Since the second statement reflects a very general pubjic opinion with regard to forestry in Canada, I shall combine it with the first and make the remarks quoted the subject of my text and I shall say: After nearly ,30 years of agitation and effort Canada stands almost naked of any forestry practice, of any definite carefully formulated plans for the management of forests
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