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Governor Comer of Alabama, intro- Mr. Frederick S. Underbill, of Pbil- 

 ducing and endorsing Jobn Wallace, adelpbia, vice-president of the Lum- 

 Jr., secretary of tbe Alabama Forestry bermen's Exchange, gave the position 

 Commission, and State Game and Fish of the lumbermen on the Appalachian 

 Commissioner, who made an enthusias- bill, saying that nearly all the lumber 

 tic address in which he spoke of the companies of the country favor the 

 progress of the South, and stated that bill. He said we cannot depend upon 

 the Alabama delegation was pledged, coal for motive power, and we must de- 

 to a man, for the Appalachian bill and pend upon the rivers, which have 

 that Alabama is not only making wise their sources in the forests, 

 laws for the preservation of forests, Samuel B. Green, professor of Hor- 

 but that she is enforcing those laws, ticulture and Forestry in the Univer- 

 with the assistance of the 7,000 game gity of Minnesota, emphasized the 

 wardens of the State. need of popular education along fores- 

 James S. Whipple, Forest, Fish and try lines. He said the young men 

 Game Commissioner of New York, should be educated. He spoke of his 

 said that his State is the pioneer in the resolution asking Congress to enlarge 

 forestry movement, and has planted the Hatch Fund law so that, out of 

 within 100,000 of as many trees as all the proceeds of the sale of forest pro- 

 the other States and the Federal Gov- ducts, an addition would be made to 

 ernment together. He made a plea for that fund to be expended for forestry 

 reforestation, citing the history of education and forestry experiments. 

 China, France, Italy, and Spain, and Professor Green's resolution was ably 

 saying that New York can reforest at seconded by Mr. Frederick W. Kelsey, 

 $6.50 an acre, whereas in France the of New York. 



cost (even with cheap labor) is in -phe leasing of coal lands by the 

 some instances as high as $35.00 an United States Government was advo- 

 acre. The high cost _ is because they cated in an able paper on Co-operation 

 must remake the soil, which floods Between the Government and Timber- 

 have washed away. By beginning now i^nd Owners, by Mr. Mark Packard, 

 and saving the forests and soils, the Qf Buffalo, who is the owner of large 

 United States- will be spared that ^oal and timber lands in Tennessee, 

 heavy expense. Mr. Packard gave the price at which 

 A very interesting address was given the Government might lease lands for 

 by Rutherford P. Hayes, of Asheville, a number of years. 

 N. C, president of the_ Appalachian Philip W. Ayres, forester of the So- 

 Park Association, in which he told of ^.j^^y foj. the Protection of New Hamp- 

 conditions in his State, saying that his gj^jj.^ Forests, said we should get rid 

 section of country was entirely denud- Qf sectionalism, and he appealed to the 

 ed of trees. patriotism of the people to support the 



A strong plea for the establishment Appalachian forest bill, 



of the Appalachian National Forests, "Forests and the Health of the Na- 



. as demanded by the people of his sec- ^Jqj^" ^^s the subject of an exception- 



tion, was made by George Ward Cook, ^jjy interesting address by Mr. J. 



of Haverhill. Mass., who represented Horace McFarland, of Harrisburg, 



the business interests of the Merrimac p^^ president of the American Civic 



Valley. Association. Mr. McFarland said 



Prof. F. W. Rane, State Forester of that the health of the people is the 



Massachusetts, delivered an excellent beginning of happmess ; he commend- 



address in wh'"ch he spoke especiallv ed the interest taken by cities. States 



of the great destruction and damage and the Federal Government in the 



of forests by fire ; he explained the defi- health of the people. He emphasized 



nite plans to control forest fires which especially the health of the people as 



are practiced in his State. affected by the forests and said that 



