EDITORIAL 



899 



In Texas the lumbermen have already the damage that is now likely to be done 



passed resolutions calling upon the each year. The proposed State Board 



members of the next Legislature to give of Forestry will, if created, formulate 



earnest consideration to a forestry bill plans for carrying on practical forestry 



and now they are aiding in the organiza- throughout the state and will exercise 



tion of a State Forestry Association, supervision of all matters of forest 



the special object of which is to work policy and protection, 



for state conservation. In Texas the An important feature of the work 



productive timber area amounts to 

 about 17,000,000 acres, or more than 

 three times the total area of Mass- 

 achusetts. In recent years timber has 

 been so lavishly cut in the state that the 



would be the protection afforded against 

 forest fires by systemized fire patrol 

 work, and the education of the public 

 in ways and means to guard against 

 such fires. The Federal Government 



extinction of the lurnber industry was would also cooperate ^^dth the state 



in sight, and none realized it better than 

 some of the leading lumbemien there. 

 Another danger has already been ex- 

 perienced, the increase in the nimiber 

 and the destructiveness of river floods 

 owang to the excessive cutting of trees 

 in the river bottom lands and on the 

 watersheds. 



A state forestry law would provide 

 for replanting and the encouragement 

 of reforestation on such areas and this 

 would in some years largely prevent 



in this fire protective work. At present 

 only three Southern states, Kentucky, 

 Maryland and West Virginia are receiv- 

 ing such cooperation. 



An effort will be made to secure an 

 appropriation of $20,000 to carry on 

 this state forestry work. It is expected 

 that a state forest reserve will be 

 established in east Texas and one in 

 west Texas and perhaps a national 

 forest reserve in central Texas. 



CALHOUN COUNTY, Mich- the road. The projectors of this plan 



igan, is to follow the example say that it is eminently practical and 



of other counties in various we hope that it will prove so. There 



states and attempt roadside are 112 miles of road in the county and 



planting of trees for the dual purpose jf the trees planted along these bear 



of beautifying the roads and also of fruit the small boys of the county will 



protectmg them, for such trees not only certainlv be in hearty favor of the idea. 



serve as wmdshiclds and minimize the whether enough fruit to sell is obtained 



effect of winds blowing off the loose f ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ however is not of prime 



im])ortance, the fact remains that trees 

 are to be planted and the road and the 

 count V residents both benefited. Per- 



surface but they also add to the life of 

 roads by aiding to retain in them neces- 

 sary moisture. Calhoun County, how- 

 ever, has gone a step farther than inost , , , .„ 

 others in deciding to plant fruit trees haps the day will come when most of the 

 instead of shade trees, with the Utopian roads throughout the country will be 

 notion that when the trees bear fruit bordered by trees, and everybody wall 

 the fruit may be sold and the money wonder why in the name of all that is 

 thus derived be used in the up keep of sensible, it was not always so. 



A' 



PROGRESSIVE citizen of Rock- 

 ford, Illinois, G. J. Boehland, is 

 good enough to advise the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association of 

 the success of a plan he had for inspiring 

 in the school children of Winnebago 

 County, in which Rockford is situated, 

 a love of trees. Last spring he presented 



to each pupil in the city, county, and 

 parochial schools a young tree to be 

 planted wherever the children liked, 

 and to each school a large tree to be 

 planted in its playground. A total of 

 11,800 trees were thus given away by 

 Mr. Boeliland and now, six months 

 after, he takes pride in reporting that a 



