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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



A. F. Hawes, of Burlington. Vt., state for- 

 ester, has recommended to the city council 

 the reforestation of the land around Berlin 

 pond owned by the city, some sixty or seventy 

 acres, to protect the water supply, and he ex- 

 pects that in years to come it will be a good 

 investment on the part of the city. He rec- 

 ommends the planting of pine and spruce. 

 The state will furnish the seedlings at actual 

 cost, also plant them at cost. The trees cost 

 about $5 a thousand, and the expense of 

 planting is about $10 an acre. 



Rivers and Harbors Congress 



Over a thousand delegates of the National 

 Rivers and Harbors Congress met in Wash- 

 ington, for several days early in December, 

 and after hearing many enlightening dis- 

 cussions and several excellent papers adopted 

 a series of resolutions. The resolutions, 

 which were presented to the President and 

 also to the House and Senate, urged the 

 adoption by the Government of a board, 

 liberal, comprehensive, systematic, and con- 

 tinuous policy of waterway improvement, and 

 the continuance by Congress of the policy of 

 annual appropriations for rivers and harbors 

 and connected waterways. 



The resolutions also urge that such water- 

 way improvements as have been recom- 

 mended by the Government engineers and 

 approved by Congress should be completed 

 rapidly as possible. The congress also, in 

 a resolution, stated that the minimum annual 

 appropriation required to carry forward 

 waterway improvements on a scale com- 

 mensurate with the importance of the work 

 to be done is $50,000,000. 



The congress also recommended the en- 

 largement of the powers of the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission to the end that the 

 the Commission may more effectually regulate 

 competing land and water carriers, and pro- 

 vide for the interchange of trafiic. 



Canadian Forestry Convention 



Last year the Canadian Forestry Conven- 

 tion washeld in the old Rock City of Que- 

 bec. This year, under the patronage of His 

 Royal Plighness, the Duke of Connaught, 

 Governor General of Canada, it meets on 

 Feb. 7 and 8, in the Parliament Buildings at 

 Ottawa, the capital city of the Dominion. 



This will be a particularly important meet- 

 ing. There are a number of subjects press- 

 ing for solution, the Parliament will be in 

 session and the Canadian Lumbermen's As- 

 sociation will be meeting in Ottawa at the 

 same time. It is expected that the meeting 

 will be addressed by Hon. R. L. Borden. 

 Premier of Canada, Sir Wilfred Laurier, 

 leader of the Opposition, Mr. Gifford Pin- 

 chot of Washington. Mr. H. S. Graves, 

 United States Forester, and others. 



The Canadian railways have granted 

 single fare round trip rates to Ottawa. On 

 Wednesday evening, Feb. 7, there will be a 

 banquet participated in by the Lumbermen's 

 Association as well as the Forestry Asso- 

 ciation. 



The Ottawa winter season will be in full 

 swing, and visitors from a distance will find 

 much to interest them in the Canadian capi- 

 tal. 



Further particulars may be obtained by 

 writing to Mr. James Lawler, Secretary, 

 Canadian Forestry Association, Canadian 

 Building, Ottawa, Canada. 



Popular Interest in Forestry 



The general increase in popular interest 

 in the work of the forester which is steadily 

 attracting more attention in the newspapers 

 is added too by the following article from a 

 recent issue of the New York \Sun : 



"Forestry as a profession has been prac- 

 tised in this country for only about fifteen or 

 twenty years. Within that period, however, 

 it has advanced greatly and it has now come 

 to be a business as well as a profession. It 

 has many practitioners and there are also 

 now engaged in it concerns that will under- 

 take any kind of forestry work, from the 

 treatment of a single tree to the care, de- 

 velopment and protection of extensive forest 

 tracts. 



"In the offices of such concerns it is a com- 

 mon thing nowadays to receive from subur- 

 ban or coimtry residents who may own per- 

 haps a single noble tree or a clump of trees 

 that seem not to be thriving a request to 

 look them over. Whereupon the concern 

 sends out a tree doctor, an expert forester,, 

 who inspects these trees, root, trunk and 

 branch, for cavities, for insect borers, for 

 the detection of scale, the removal of dead 

 wood and the most advantageous pruning of 

 the live wood, for the bolting or chaining of 

 limbs if that should be necessary, for what- 

 ever may be needed to restore the trees to 

 or to preserve them in sound health and their 

 normal beauty. 



"On the results of this inspection the fores- 

 try concern makes to the owner a typewritten 

 report, and then it remains with the owner 

 to determine what he will have done. There 

 arc owners who have their trees inspected 

 at regular intervals as a preventive and pre- 

 servative measure to keep the trees in health. 



"For owners of more extensive country 

 estates which may include within their terri- 

 tory stretches of woodland the modern 

 forester docs many things. Here he not 

 only cares for individual trees, but he is as 

 well a landscape forester. He will clear away 

 underbrush and without destroying their 

 woodsy flavor make woods accessible so that 

 they may be enjoyed; and by the judicious 

 removal of branches or the cutting out of 

 a tree or two he may reveal a beautiful view."" 



