192 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION April 



way to aid the Appalachian bill and may take this because they think they 



any other legitimate measure of the will have in it an easy study, but ap- 



same kind. "Broadly speaking," says parently the main reason is the in- 



the Commercial Advertiser, "it is a creased interest in forestry prevailing 



question of first economic importance in Wisconsin, as in other parts of the 



to the Nation," and points out that, by Union. 



deferring the timber famine, it will At the University of Nebraska, Mr. 



also help Hawaii. In addition, such an Raphael Zon, chief of the Office of Sil- 



aquisition would be, it concludes, of vies, in the Forest Service, has been 



first importance to the country at giving a series of lectures on forest 



large. Would that some statesmen types, problems, and conditions. _ Mr. 



nearer home were as clear sighted as Zon's alma mater is the University of 



this Hawaiian editor! St. Petersburg, Russia. 



Kansas The Kansas State Agri- Forestry at Mr. W. R. Eastman, un- 

 Farmers' cultural College, at Man- Winona ^ i 1 recently connected 

 Institute hattan, has engaged C. ^^^^ with the Maryland Agri- 

 A. Kupfer of the U. S. Forest Service, cultural College, has gone to be pro- 

 for several weeks, to talk to farmers' fessor of forestry at the Winona Agri- 

 institutes in western Kansas. This is cultural Institute, at Winona Lake, 

 in addition to the institute work done Indiana, 

 by the two professors of horticulture 



and forestry. Industrial Congressman C. R. 

 The college has recently issued a p":||°°^ Davis, of Minnesota, 

 practical pamphlet on "Tree Culture," ^ feels greatly encouraged 

 sending it to all the rural district teach- concerning the passage, in the near 

 ers of the State and to all members of future, of his industrial high school 

 farmers' institutes. It will be sent free bill. It has received numerous in- 

 to anyone on application to the Super- dorsements from leading American 

 intendent of Farmers' Institutes, Kan- educators, has been the object of 

 sas State Agricultural College, Man- favorable resolutions from educational 

 hattan, Kansas. organizations, farmers' associations. 

 Another pamphlet of the same sort State colleges, commercial organiza- 

 issued by the college, especially for tions, boards of trade, manufacturers' 

 teachers, is entitled "Bird Life." organizations, and industrial organi- 

 zations generally throughout the coun- 

 Short A Short Course in For- try. President Roosevelt is strongly 

 Course |-j.y jg being held at the for this bill. It is in line with his 

 In Forestry q^Iq^^^^ Agricultural Keokuk speech of October last, in 

 College, at Fort Collins, commencing which he said : 



Monday, March i6, 1908, and continu- "We should strive in every way to 



ing for four weeks. The course is un- aid in the education of the farrner for 



der the direction of Mr. F. W. Mor- the farm, and should shape our school 



rell, of the Inspector's Office, District system with this end in view; and so 



No. 2, U. S. Forest Service, assisted vitally important is this that, in my 



by members of the faculty of the Ag- opinion, the Federal goverhment 



ricultural College and by others from should co-operate with the State gov- 



the Forest Service. ernments to secure the needed change < 



and improvement in our schools. At 



. . At the State University present there is a gap between our 



Lectures^ of Wisconsin, 185 stu- primary schools in country and city 



dents are taking a lee- which must be closed, and, if neces- 



ture course given by Mr. E. M. Grif- sary, the Nation must help the State 



fith, the State Forester. Some students to close it. Too often our present 



