NEWS AND NOTES 



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dresses these officers were elected for the 

 coming year : 



President— Prof. H. S. Green, director of 

 the Yale Forestry School, New Haven. 



Vice-presidents— Dr. E. H. Jenkins, of the 

 New Haven Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion; Everett S. Geer, Hartford; Theodore 

 L. Bristol, Ansonia. 



Recording secretary— F. H. Stadtmueller, 

 Elmwood. 



Corresponding secretary — Miss Mary 

 Winslow, Weatogue. tt .- j 



Treasurer— Alfred Spencer, jr., Hartford. 



Auditor— Appleton R. Hillyer, Hartford. 



Advisory board— The above officers and 

 Mrs. Jessie B. Gerard, South Norwalk; 

 George D. Seymour, and W. O. Filley, New 



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Publishing committee— Dr. E. H. Jenkins, 

 Prof. H. S. Graves, and Miss Mary Winslow. 



The constitution of the association was so 

 changed that the annual meetings would be 

 held on the first Saturday in May in place 

 of the Saturday following Arbor Day, as 

 heretofore. The report of the secretary 

 showed a membership of 126, a gain of 

 twenty members during the year. That of 

 the treasurer showed a balance on hand of 

 $132.09. At the morning session an address 

 on "Forestry Legislation and Future Forest 

 Policy in the State" was given by W. O. 

 Filley, of New Haven, acting state forester. 

 George Towne, of Union, also gave an ad- 

 dress on "Fire Protection." At the after- 

 noon session, which followed a basket-picmc 

 lunch. Prof. J. W. Toumey. of the Forestry 

 School, Yale University, gave an address on 

 "Forest Planting." The matters of fire pro- 

 tection and importance of adequate appro- 

 priation by the sate for the maintenance of 

 the state forester, ex-officio fire warden, were 

 emphasized. The feeling was unanimous that 

 the present fire-warden law was fully ade- 

 quate, if given a proper chance, which it 

 has never had, owing to the lack of funds 

 to put it into proper execution. A bill is 

 before the present legislature to increase the 

 appropriation of the state forester so that 

 this matter can be rectified and a better 

 system of forest conservation in this state 

 begun. 



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Dry Farming 



Two ways, thus far, ' of conquering the 

 desert have been devised : First, irriga- 

 tion; second, dry farming. At Billings, 

 Mont., on October 26, 27 and 28, the fourth 

 Dry-farming Congress will be held. Its sec- 

 retary is John T. Burns, Billings,_Mont., and 

 it has issued an interesting bulletin. 



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Natural Resources to Produce Revenue 



Representative Sheppard of Texas evi- 

 dently is a believer that the Federal Gov- 

 ernment should resort to some other method 

 of procuring revenue than by that of taxa- 

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tion. To make his ideas effective, if possible, 

 he has introduced in the House a resolutioii 

 for the creation of a commission to investi- 

 gate and report at the earliest practicable 

 moment on the method of utilizing the min- 

 erals, the timber, the water-power, the hot 

 waters, and other resources of the public 

 domain in such a inanner as to make their 

 production of the largest possible value to 

 the Federal Government. The resolution 

 provides that the commission shall consist 

 of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary 

 of the Interior, the Director of the Geo- 

 logical Survey, one Senator, one Representa- 

 tive, and two business men. — North Dakota 

 Farmer. 



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"ace 



to Face With a Water-power Trust 



Far-sighted captains of industry, realizing 

 what the next generation will bring forth — 

 reduction in the fuel supply with its comple- 

 ment, an enhancement of cost — and anticipat- 

 ing the advancement that will come in the 

 art of utilizing hydro-electric power, have 

 already seized advantageous points, and even 

 now a small group of "interests" controls a 

 third of the present water-power production; 

 that is, produces power the equivalent of that 

 proportionate part. * * * This, and pre- 

 ceding generations, have realized the signifi- 

 cance of monopoly in those things which 

 are vital factors in the lives of all con- 

 sumers, whether it be heat, light, food prod- 

 ucts, or transportation. Yet all these united 

 must be multiplied to be tantamount in power 

 to the monopolistic Colossus which is yet 

 but a suckling, nurturing itself at the breast 

 of its foster-parent, the public. For heat, 

 light, and transportation, and the power that 

 turns the spindles and grinds the corn, will 

 be the product of transmuted water-power 

 within the lifetime of our children.— Charles 

 Edward Wright, Assistant Attorney to the 

 Secretary of the Interior, in the Annals of 

 the American Academy of Political and So- 

 cial Science. 



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The Water-'power Monopoly 



With more than forty water-power grab 

 bills in Congress and predatory corporations 

 grasping at every available water site in the 

 country without recompense, President Taft 

 is urged by Water-power Expert John L. 

 Mathews, in the June Hampton's, to curb the 

 growing power of what threatens to be a 

 greater trust than Standard Oil. He de- 

 clares, "A new monopoly more terrible than 

 has ever threatened the country, paying noth- 

 ing, demanding all, its members have gone 

 to Congress and borne away perpetual fran- 

 chises to the greatest of our last remaining 

 resources. Only the determined stand of 

 President Roosevelt and Forester Gifford 

 Pinchot has so far come between them and 

 victory." 



It was the Rainy River Dam bill which 

 President Roosevelt vetoed. Rainy River, a 



