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acres of land signed up, the amount avail- 

 able for the coming year's use will be 

 about $10,000. It is expected that this 

 amount will soon be doubled. The hold- 

 ings of the present members of the associa- 

 tion are fairly contiguous, being located 

 principally in Alger, Jlarquette, Baraga, 

 Houghton and Ontonagon counties, which 

 makes the patrol much more feasible and 

 less expensive than if the lands were 

 widely scattered. 



As fires broke out in March last year, an 

 effort will be made to get things in readi- 

 ness for actual work as soon as possible. 

 The chief forester will engage a number 

 of assistant foresters and patrols. 



Protection from and precautions against 

 forest fires, however, will not be the sole 

 purpose of the association. A campaign of 

 education will be conducted to impress 

 upon the public the value of forest pro- 

 tection and conservation, not only to timber 

 owners, but to the public at large. Home- 

 steaders and campers will be taught to 

 take precautions that will prevent fires, and 

 the necessity of prompt action to quench 

 them when once they get a start. No 

 effort will be made to keep hunters and 

 fishermen off, but the patrols will see to it 

 all trespassers take timely precautions re- 

 garding fire and will endeavor to enforce 

 the state laws. 



Ohio State Forestry SocietY 



The Ohio State Forestry Society held its 

 seventh annual meeting at Columbus on 

 Friday. February 3. The meeting was held 

 in connection with the fourth annual na- 

 tional corn exposition, which brought to- 

 gether in the Ohio exposition buildings at 

 Columbus noteworthy agricultural exhibits 

 of thirty-five states. The exposition was 

 open from January 30th to February 11th. 

 There were some interesting forestry ex- 

 hibits from the United States Forest Serv- 

 ice, the Ohio Experiment Station at 

 Wooster, and the Ohio State University. 

 The most striking feature of the Forest 

 Service exhibit was the model, first shown 

 in the Appalachian exposition at Knoxville, 

 showing the action of rainfall on wooded 

 and denuded slopes. On one side of the 

 model is a hillside covered with evergreen, 

 and below in the level open country farm 

 lands. On the other side is a bare gravelly 

 hillside. A spraying arrangement with two 

 arms produces rainfall on the two slopes. 

 On our side the water runs off clear in the 

 well-defined banks of a stream to a lake. 

 On the other side the hill is suffering con- 

 stant erosion, the stream that drains the 

 area Is muddy, with shifting bed and banks. 

 Stones and silt are carried down and scat- 

 tered along the banks and the lake, which 

 furnishes the outlet, is muddy. The whole 

 area Is desolate and in striking compari- 

 son to that beside it. This model is an 

 absolute reproduction of natural conditions 

 and cannot fail to carry a most impressive 

 lesson. 



The state experiment station had an in- 

 structive exhibit, illustrating by photo- 

 graphs and by wood sections the condi- 

 tions existing in Ohio. A great deal of 

 interest was shown in these exhibits and 

 the representatives of the station were kept 

 busy explaining and giving practical talks 

 to visitors throughout the day. 



The meeting of the state forestry society 

 Friday afternoon was held in one of the 

 lecture rooms. The program began with an 

 address by the President, Professor William 

 R. Lazenby of Ohio State University, re- 

 viewing the work of the association and its 

 problems. Following this Professor Bruce 

 Fink of Miami University reviewed the 

 subject of "Forestry at the Saint Paul 

 meeting," bringing out the salient features 

 of the forestry discussions at the Second 

 Conservation Congress. Assistant Profes- 

 sor C. H. Goetz, who has recently come 

 to Ohio State University from Washington, 

 spoke on "Timber Waste of the Northwest." 

 The speaker attributed the great waste in 

 that section to greed for wealth and to 

 transportation conditions. It is not a vol- 

 untary waste but is due to economic causes 



Mrs. Clara Murdock of Akron, represent 

 ing the Ohio federation of Women's Clubs, 

 spoke on "Unused Forces," showing the 

 work done by the federated club women 

 along all lines of effort, as an evidence of 

 the great force here latent and ready to 

 be used at need. 



An interesting address followed on 

 "County Forestry Societies" by George W. 

 Miller of Bucyrus, president of the young 

 but active Crawford County Forestry So- 

 ciety. County organizations play a con- 

 siderable part in affairs in Ohio and the 

 State Forestry Society proposes to organize 

 branch societies in each county. Two 

 counties, Crawford and Morrill, are al- 

 ready organized and Mr. Miller presented 

 a very definite and well-conceived program 

 for county work. 



Edwin A. Start, executive secretary of 

 the American Forestry Association, who 

 was present, spoke of the work of that or- 

 ganization, its relation to the state work 

 and the desirability of mutual understand- 

 ing and close cooperation between the two 

 bodies. 



There was a general discussion of the 

 work of the association. The following 

 officers were elected: President. William R. 

 Lazenby of Columbus; vice-president, W. J. 

 Green of Wooster; secretary, J. J. Crumley 

 of Wooster; treasurer, H. C. Rogers of 

 Mechanicsburg; these, with George W. 

 Miller of Bucyrus, to constitute an execu- 

 tive committee. 



The state forestry work in Ohio has pro- 

 ceeded along lines peculiar to itself. The 

 state was once covered with rich and varied 

 forests, which have been almost entirely 

 removed. Its great agricultural possibili- 

 ties have been antagonistic to forestry and 

 the forest needs and opportunities of the 

 state have been disregarded or not under- 

 stood, yet they are great and this Is Just 



