1908 



NEWS AND NOTES 



193 



schools tend to put altogether too 

 great a premium upon mere literary 

 education, and therefore to train 

 away from the farm and shop. We 

 should reverse this process." . 



In reply to the objection that 

 National appropriations for these 

 schools would relieve the States from 

 the sense of responsibility, Congress- 

 man Davis quotes a letter from Hon. 

 Elmer Ellsworth Brown, U. S. Com- 

 missioner of Education, showing that, 

 between 1896 and 1906 the amount 

 which the land grant colleges received 

 from their several States was in- 

 creased from $2,218,100 to $7,531,502, 

 an increase of about 240 per cent. In 

 1896 these institutions received 29 per 

 cent, of their support from the 

 Nation; in 1906 they received but 15.4 

 per cent, therefrom. 



The Davis bill bridges the gap be- 

 tween the education of the school- 

 house and that of the home, farm and 

 shop. It is a far-reaching and benefi- 

 cent measure. 



GamePrivil- ^,^^ Hampden Forestry 

 egesPaythe Association which has 

 Taxes formed to acquire 



white pine and other 

 timber tracts in Massachusetts and 

 Connecticut and hold same for proper 

 management of the timber and for en- 

 hancement of timber values, have 

 solved for themselves the problem of 

 taxation, which might otherwise stand 

 in the way of their holding timber 

 lands. They are leasing the privi- 

 leves of hunting and fishing in their 

 forest to men who will stock the pre- 

 serves with game and pay a rental 

 practically equal to the taxes. 



This is but a small expense for the 



sportsmen, and it enables the forestry 

 association to get the benefit of the 

 growth of the timber. Inasmuch as 

 wild lands are becoming scarcer and 

 game preservation more difficult, this 

 policy may be helpful for other parties 

 who desire to establish commercial 

 forests. 



Mrs. Voris 

 Succeeds Mr. 

 Bleecker 



The Paducah, Ky., Sun 

 of February 20th pub- 

 lished the following 

 news item : 

 "Mrs. Robert Becker Phillips, of 

 the State Federation Forestry Com- 

 mittee, has appointed Mrs. Victor 

 Voris president of the local forestry 

 association, to take the place of Mr. 

 John S. Bleecker, who will leave the 

 first of March to make his home in 

 Columbus, Georgia. Mrs. Phillips, by 

 right of her place on the Federation 

 committee, has the appointment as 

 chairman ex-officio. 



"The choice of Mrs. Voris is a very 

 happy one. She is not only deeply in- 

 terested in the work of the forestry 

 preservation, but her talents, versatil- 

 ity, and charming tact combine to 

 make her an especially capable presid- 

 ing officer." 



Mr. Bleecker's energy, intelligence, 

 and earnestness in the forestry cause 

 will be missed in Paducah, but the loss 

 of that city will be the gain of Colum- 

 bus, Georgia. 



A State ^ Prof. A. W. Nolan, sec- 

 Association's j-gtary of the newly or- 

 ^^^" ganized West Virginia 



Forestry Association, writes that that 

 Association has decided to make 

 Fore;stry and Irrigation its organ. 

 Forestry and Irrigation respectful- 

 ly suggests to other forestry associa- 

 tions, not provided with publications 

 of their own, the adoption of the West 

 Virginia plan. They can thereby save 

 themselves the burden of publishing 

 an organ, and can keep in touch with 

 the general, nation-wide movement. 

 This publication will also gladly give 

 reasonable space to news matter, an- 

 nouncements and other communica- 

 tions which may be of special interest 

 to state and local organizations. 



Interesting The xA.merican Forestry 



the Association is doing a 



Lumbermen ^^^^ ^^^.j^ ^^^^ -^^ ^^j. 



tating the matter of protecting the for- 

 ests which we now have, and in en- 

 couraging the growth of timber by ' 



