REPORT OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY 

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE YEAR 1 907* 



I7OR the American Forestry Associa- 

 ^ tion, the year 1907 has been, in 

 some respects, a notable one. In Jan- 

 uary the magazine. Forestry and Ir- 

 rigation, was purchased from the 

 Forestry and Irrigation Pubhshing 

 Company, for the sum of $1,650; the 

 Association paying, at the same time, 

 to the Forestry and Irrigation Pubhsh- 

 ing Company, the sum of $1,458.60 to 

 cancel its indebtedness to that organi- 

 zation. 



In the eleven and one-half months 



found, 24 ; total, 723 ; leaving of the 

 former members, 4,820. 



To these, new members have been 

 added as follows : Patron, i ; Life, 

 45; Sustaining, 27; Annual, 1,662; 

 making a total of 1,735. ^^h^ s^"'''' ^^ 

 the former members retained and of 

 the new members added was, there- 

 fore. 6,555. 



The total receipts from these new 

 members were $9,499. The cost of 

 this membership campaign, including 

 the printing and mailing of 122,078 



intervening between the purchase of invitations, postage on the same, and 

 the magazine and the close of the cal- such portion of the office pay-roll as 

 endar year thirteen issues were pub- was estimated to be properly charge- 

 lished ;' the magazine thus being made able with this work, was $6,350.86 ; 

 to appear, since February, on time, leaving an excess of receipts over ex- 

 Special effort has been made to im- penditures amounting to $3,145.97. 

 prove the general character and ap- To the fullest extent of its capacity, 

 pearance of the publication. The is- the office of the Association has pro- 

 sue for January, 1908, included 9,200 moted the Appalachian campaign. In 

 copies, 6,645 of these being for mem- this work it has fully utilized its mag- 

 bers, and the others for subscribers, 

 exchanges, advertisers, and general 

 propaganda. On July i a press bulle- 

 tin service was instituted. Since that 

 time copies have been issued weekly to 

 some 1.500 newspapers. Clippings 



azine. circular letters, folders, and 

 press bulletins. Its Secretary has also 

 lectured extensively, speaking thirteen 

 times in four Southern States, and 

 twentv-two times in six Western and 

 Middle States, these lectures being ful- 



and marked copies returned show that ly reported by the press. Following all 



these bulletins were widely used. of these addresses save three, resolu- 



Circular letters to the number of tions endorsing the Appalachian Bill 



125,000, and folders to the number of were passed. He has also addressed 



138,143 have been issued. the annual meetings of the National 



During the greater part of the year Slack Cooperage Manufacturers' As- 



the membership campaign was pur- sociation, the National Association of 



sued with vi-or. Though measurablv l^ox Manufacturers, and the Green- 



affected by the industrial depression, 

 the following results were obtained : 



The membership for December 31, 

 1906, which was 5,543, was reduced as 

 follows : Resignations ( three advanc- 

 ing to Life, four to Sustaining, and 

 one Sustaining changed to AnnualL 

 547; deaths, 42; dropped, no; not 



acre Summer Conference, and has at- 

 tended other important meetings, pro- 

 moting the passage of Appalachian res- 

 olutions ; and has published in the 

 press articles in advocacy of the Appa- 

 lachian r.ill and the general cause of 

 forestry. 



Attention is called to the broaden- 



*Re?.d by the Secretary of the Association, Thomas Elmer Will, at the 

 Annual ]\Ieeting, Washington, January 29, 1908. 



