1908 



MEMBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS 



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Prizes for 

 Essays 



Mrs. Ruth H. Spray, of 

 Salida, Colorado, wrote 

 that the women's club in 

 that city offered prizes last year to 

 school children for the best essay on 

 trees. This is one good way to inter- 

 est the young people. 



Help of 

 Two Kinds 



A new member from 

 San Diego, California, 

 sends his dues and says : 

 "This is the only mite I can contribute 

 to a public business policy that I feel 

 sure goes to the accomplishment of 

 much good. I send also list of names, 

 as requested." These two mites of help 

 may appear small to some people, but 

 such cooperation on the part of many 

 is what makes a movement go. 



The Silver 

 Streams No 

 Longer Flow 



Mrs. E. M. Eno Hu- 

 mason, of New Brit- 

 ain, Conn., writes 

 that she hopes we 

 may be permitted to see the results 

 that will be accomplished by irrigation 

 and forestry on our sandy deserts 



and uncultivated lands in the Western 

 States. No other improvements that 

 can be made in our country will show 

 greater benefit than what has. already 

 been done by these two kinds of effort. 

 From a soil rich in itself, but waste for 

 want of water, irrigation combined 

 with forestry brings health and wealth, 

 together with a country beautiful to 

 pass through. 



In our Eastern States, she adds, we 

 see the result of the disappearance of 

 much of our forests ; the silver streams 

 no longer flow, and the larger rivers 

 decrease in size and power. 



Paintings 

 of Trees 



Mr. R. M. Shurtleff 

 writes from New York 

 that the New Hampshire 

 Society, to which he belongs, is very 

 much interested in the work of the 

 American Forestry Association. Mr. 

 Shurtleff is an artist, and has painted 

 the forests of the Adirondacks for 

 forty years. His painting of a tree in 

 his own woods is on exhibition in the 

 Corcoran Gallery at Washington un- 

 der the title "The First Snow." 



Young black walnut near Linden, Indiana — The walnuts were scattered thickly in 

 a potato patch and cultivated in, and then allowed to care for themselves — 

 Trees at 23 years of age are about 30 feet high, and 3 to 6 inches in diameter 



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