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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



custom of my immediate predecessors, and 

 the delightful sentiment of a better genera- 

 tion, do hereby ordain and proclaim that 

 Friday, April the eighth, will be set apart and 

 dedicated to the planting of trees throughout 

 the state, and I do especially urge the 500,000 

 school children of Kansas to participate in 

 the enterprise. 



"W. R. Stubbs, 

 "Governor." 



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Ohio 



The graduates of the Ohio State Univer- 

 sit}' forestry course will be qualified to per- 

 form valuable services to their own state 

 if the proper encouragement is given. Ohio 

 should secure and maintain forest reserves. 

 There are large areas of cheap land on the 

 watersheds of the state that should be per- 

 petually forested. The service of these for- 

 ested areas as natural reservoirs holding back 

 flood waters and preventing drouth and the 

 washing of the land would be very great. 

 That the ripe timber taken off the land from 

 time to time would pay an ample revenue has 

 been demonstrated in the case of similar re- 

 serves. Doubtless Ohio has as great a need 

 of the forestry service as any other state. — 

 TJie Unh'crsity Nezvs-Bullctin. 



Pennsylvania 



Arbor Days have been named by the Gov- 

 ernor of the Commonwealth, and on April 8 

 and 22, some attention will be given to tree 

 planting by a very few devoted to the cause 

 of forestation. The trees planted on these 

 days are not sufficient in number to be con- 

 sidered in connection with forestation. If a 

 state-wide boom for wayside trees could be 

 inaugurated and Arbor Days converted into 

 geiutine working holidays for planting trees 

 by the side of the roads of the state, a great 

 change would soon be efifected, and our 

 shadeless, treeless country highways be con- 

 verted into long avenues of shade and beauty. 



Our laws provide for this wayside tree 

 planting, but nothing is done about it. The 

 shaded country roads seen elsewhere have in- 

 spired a desire to emulate them in this state. 

 A sunburned, starving highway is easily made 

 a shady lane, grateful to man and beast. If 

 walnut, chestnut and hickory trees are planted 

 there they will afford a beautiful setting for 

 the street and their nuts will be appreciated 

 and valued b}' boys and squirrels. Our 

 native trees make good wayside trees in 

 country districts and serve a double purpose. 



Arbor Day is intended not so much to in- 

 crease the number of trees as to increase the 

 knowledge and love of trees and an under- 

 standing of their value among the people. 

 The wider and more general is the obser- 

 vance of these special tree days the better it 

 will be for the state and for the people who 

 live in \t.— Philadelphia Press. 



