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5. Are 3'ou helping the movement for bird 



protection or to prevent the extinction 

 of the mountain laurel, arbutus, and 

 maiden-hair fern? 250 clubs help bird 

 protection. 



6. Is Arbor and Bird Day observed in your 



public schools? 964 cities and towns 

 keep Arbor Day. 



7. Do you use the Forest Service bulletins? 



218 clubs use Forest Service bulletins. 



8. Do 3-ou cooperate with the tree warden or 



other tree official in your city. If so, in 

 what way? And with what results? 

 240 clubs cooperate with city officials — 

 excellent results. 



In closing this report, it is a great pleasure 

 to thank the members of the board and mem- 

 bers of the forestry committee for their 

 courtesy, and especially Mrs. Henry F. 

 Brooks, the vice-chairman, whose instant re- 

 sponse to every request and earnest coop 

 eration in all details of our arduous work- 

 have been of the greatest assistance. 



Respectfully submitted. 



(Signed) Jessie Bryant Ger.\kd. 

 May 13, 1910. 



The best way to express Mrs. Ger- 

 ard's interest and work for forestry is 

 to say that she has been everlastingly at 

 it for the last twenty years or more. 

 She was chairman of forestry for Con- 

 necticut even before the general fed- 

 eration took up the work. Mrs. Gerard 

 believes in doing rather than in talking 

 and she always gets practical results 

 from her efiforts. She cooperates with 

 the state forester and arranges meetings 

 for the clubs, and the clubs advertise 

 the meetings and make the local ar- 

 rangements. She does nnich work before 

 farmers' clubs, men's clubs, and wom- 

 en's clubs ; these lectures by Mrs. Gerard 

 always lead up to practical results, as 

 planting and reforesting follow her ad- 

 dresses. Mrs. Gerard's special work 

 for Connecticut is to get the different 

 cities to get their reservoir sites under 

 forest cover. Notable work has already 

 been accomplished along these lines in 

 Norwalk and South Norwalk, in Mrs. 

 Gerard's home locality. "We all ex- 

 pect to do good work in New Eng- 

 land," said Mrs. Gerard, "for we are 

 all going to pull together, as our in- 

 terests and needs all through New Eng- 

 land are similar. Thousands of shade 

 trees have been planted by the women's 



clubs, and it would seem as if the shade 

 tree is the ward of the women's clubs.'' 



Gifford Pinchot was to have spoken 

 at the morning meeting on "The Forest 

 and the Family," but his absence in Eu- 

 rope prevented. This was a great dis- 

 appointment to many who had counted 

 on hearing him, but his place was taken 

 by William L. Hall, first assistant for- 

 ester of the United States Forest Serv- 

 ice, who spoke on "Progress in Saving 

 Forest Waste." ]\Iany who heard it 

 pronounced this the best speech of the 

 convention. 



Air. Hall paid a high tribute to the 

 work women are doing for forest con- 

 servation, saying : "As one actively en- 

 gaged in forestry w^ork, I want first of 

 all to acknowledge the wonderful serv- 

 ice of women in forest conservation. 

 The work has advanced notably, but 

 without the aid of the women, who have 

 given of their time and energy, for the 

 sake of their convictions, it would not 

 have made such appreciable strides. 

 The women have sometimes led," said 

 Mr. Hall, "sometimes been among the 

 first followers, but they have never 

 lagged. They were the first to sense the 

 importance of this great movement, and 

 not a single step has been taken except 

 by the aid of the women of America. If 

 we stop now," continued Mr. Hall, "little 

 permanent good will result ; all our 

 work will be lost. What we have done 

 will only amount to something if we 



go on. 



Mr. Hall made the prediction that 

 lumber prices will go higher and re- 

 main higher for a good while. He said 

 the checking of waste of forest prod- 

 ucts can be accomplished by the coop- 

 eration of the lumber-using public and 

 the government and the application of 

 proper lumbering methods. 



In speaking of the waste which 

 threatens the destruction of the forests 

 at present, ]\Ir. Hall said the waste 

 from the mills where spruce, hem- 

 lock, and poplar are sawed would pro- 

 duce all the wood pulp necessary to 

 make all the paper produced in the 

 country. Enough pine wood goes to 

 waste in the southern sawmills an- 

 nually, he said, to produce all the tur- 



