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tional career of over ten years entered upon the practice of law in Cincinnati 

 In 1874 and in that city, in 1882, became one of the founders of the American 

 Forest Congress. This body became a few years after the American Forestry 

 Association, and Judge Higley was its president in 1885-6. Through the 

 remainder of his life he took an active interest in the forestry movement and 

 gave his assistance to it in generous measure. He was until the last three or 

 four years a i-egular attendant at the annual meetings of the American For- 

 estry Association and a particularly intelligent and interested participant in 

 its activities. He was a founder of the Association for the Protection of the 

 Adirondacks, which has accomplished so much in preventing the destruction 

 of New York's noble forest domain. 



No one who knows the history of the American Forestry Association and 

 the extent and value of its achievements, can fail to honor the loyalty and 

 courage of the faithful few, of whom Judge Higley was one, who through years 

 of public ignorance and difference maintained the worth of their cause until the 

 country was compelled to recognize and incorporate it in a great national 

 policy. 



American citizenship as well as American forestry is better for such men 

 and their work. 



PLANTING FOR PULP AND TIMBER 



BUSTIN F. HAWES, state forester of Vermont, has an article in Paper 

 of March 29th on the planting of forests for pulp and timber, which 

 should be helpful, as it is practical and conservative in tenor. His 

 opening sentence strikes the keynote: "Prices of soft-wood lumber and pulp 

 wood are now getting so high that forest planting of quick growing species 

 is a sound business policy under certain conditions." He qualifies this, how- 

 ever, by saying that "it is useless to advocate the investment of money in the 

 purchase and reforestation of waste lands on a large scale at present because 

 so much better and quicker producing investments can be made in natural 

 second growth." 



In many cases in New England and northern New York, lands can be 

 purchased from which soft woods have been culled but covered with a vigorous 

 second growth of fir, spruce or pine at prices that in a few years will yield a 

 handsome profit, yielding more in fifteen years than the average plantation at 

 thirty years. There are other conditions, however, in which forest planting 

 is advisable, as on non-productive lands such as abandoned farm pastures. 

 Lumber and pulp companies buy much property containing such tracts and 

 as they buy on the basis of the timber value, the open land is virtually free, so 

 that planting can be done for the cost of seedlings and labor. The reduction 

 of the fire risk in the eastern states by better systems of protection, Mr. Hawes 

 points out, is removing the chief risk attached to such investments, and the 

 young, grossing trees steadily enhance the value of the land. He gives the 

 following reasons why pulp companies should plant : 



(1) They have extensive plants which must be supplied from the tribu- 

 tary region. 



(2) They own large areas of waste land representing little investment. 

 (3 The materials used are not required in large dimensions; and are 



of soft, rapid growing species, so that a crop can be secured in the minimum 

 length of time. 



Mr. Hawes discusses species and ways and means quite fully, suggesting 

 the value of Norway spruce and Canadian or white spruce, and white pine, 



