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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



buquerque, N. Mex., in September. An 

 interesting incident in connection with 

 the visit of the battle-ship fleet to San 

 Francisco was related by Mrs. Lovell 

 White. The civic committee of the Out- 

 door Art League of the California Club, 

 Mrs. White, chairman, planted sixteen 

 trees named for the sixteen battle-ships 

 anchored in San Francisco Bay. Later 

 these trees will be dedicated to the 

 American navy. 



A significant feature of Biennial week- 

 was the reports of presidents of state 

 federations, in which forestry work ac- 

 complished by the clubs of each state 

 formed an important part. 



Selected at random, a few reports 

 follow : 



Mrs. Chas. C. Capen. Williamantic, 

 Conn., says : "635,000 forest trees 

 planted in Connecticut." 



Mrs. Lorin Webster, Plymouth, 

 N. H., brought assurance of continued 

 faithful work for the establishment of 

 the Appalachian National Forest. 



Enthusiastic applause greeted the 

 statement that the first land given in 

 New England to be used for public- 

 school purposes was given by a woman. 

 Bridget Graffort, and the Graffort Club 

 of New Hampshire is named for her. 



Mrs. F. H. White, of Lewiston, Me., 

 stated that this is a banner year for for- 

 estry in Maine, and that interest con- 

 tinues unabated. 



"Ten thousand acres in forest re- 

 serves, and an appropriation of $25,000 

 to buy five or six thousand more acres," 

 is the encouraging report of Mrs. Henry 

 H. Dawson, of Newark, N. J. 



Mrs. Edward W. Biddle. Carlisle, 

 Pa., reported intense interest in forestry 

 and that the work is growing steadily. 



Mrs. Stoddard Hammond, of Bing- 

 hampton. N. Y., announces steady prog- 

 ress, and that the Women's Clubs stand 

 eager and ready to do all in their power 

 for forestry. 



Mrs. W. B. Burney, of Columbia. 

 S. C, is proud of the forestry work ac- 

 complished by the Women's Clubs. She 

 emphasizes the especial need of work 

 in that state. 



"Forestry has been cannonized in 

 Vermont," savs Mrs. P. F. Hazen, of 



St. Johnsbury. The audible ripple of 

 mirth led one to believe that the Wom- 

 en's Clubs had determined to cannonize 

 some one unless forestry action be taken 

 soon. Another earnest worker present 

 from Vermont was Mrs. N. K. Fair- 

 banks. 



Professor Rane, state forester for 

 Massachusetts, accompanied by Mrs. 

 Rane, was present at the meetings. 

 Professor Pane's two new books, relat- 

 ing to trees and primary instruction on 

 trees, received general and favorable 

 notice. 



Among other distinguished and nota- 

 ble forestry workers present were : 

 George Ward Cooke, of Haverhill, 

 Mass., and Mrs. Mary P. Alumford, of 

 Philadelphia, who introduced forestry 

 in the General Federation of Women's 

 Clubs six years ago. 



Mrs. Alice F. Spalding 1016 Middle- 

 sex Street, Lowell, Mass., speaks enthu- 

 siastically of forestry work accom- 

 plished in Massachusetts. 



Especially well received were the re- 

 marks of Mrs. Mason, former chairman 

 of the State Forestry Committee of 

 New Hampshire, who told of the dam- 

 age to white birches by tourists and 

 summer visitors, who, from thoughtless- 

 ness and ignorance, rather than from 

 wilfulness girdle the trees to secure 

 strips of bark. The bark never grows 

 in, and the wanton act not only injures 

 the looks of the tree and stunts its 

 growth, but shortens its life as well. 

 Through press bulletins and leaflets, it 

 is hoped that education regarding this 

 great evil may become general. 



"The balsam fir of New Hampshire 

 is in danger of becoming extinct," said 

 the same speaker, "because of the vast 

 quantities of it ruthlessly gathered by 

 summer visitors." 



Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowdes, of Los 

 Angeles, Cal., past treasurer of the Gen- 

 eral Federation and who has just been 

 elected first vice-president, especially 

 deplores the carelessness of hunters and 

 campers, and others in starting disas- 

 trous forest fires. "We of the West 

 realize that water is king," said Mrs. 

 Towles. "To have water we must have 

 forests, and to have forests we must 



