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AA^HEREAS, this Department has established and is now success- 

 fully conducting one of the leading schools of foresti-y in the United 

 States, wherein foresters are educated for exclusive employment 

 upon the forest reserves of Pennsylvania; and 



WHEREAS, the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry originated 

 and for a period of five years successfully conducted the Mont Alto 

 Open-air Camp Sanitorium for the treatment and cure of tubercu- 

 losis, from which small beginning has grown the present State-wide 

 campaign against this disease, resulting in an appropriation of a 

 million dollars for this work by the last Legislature; and 



WHEREAS, there is immediate and pressing need that this De- 

 partment of the State Government be afforded ample means for a 

 more vigorous prosecution of the work with which it is charged: 



THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that this organization ap- 

 prove the continued acquisition of large tracts of denuded non- 

 agricultural mountain land for the establishment of forest reserves 

 with the attendant resulting good to be derived therefrom. 



RESOLVED, that this Organization approve the work done by 

 the Department of Forestry in the treatment and cure of tubercu- 

 losis by the forest camp system, an innovation which was unpopular 

 and antagonized at the start because not understood; but which 

 has culminated in the splendid organized system of combatting this 

 disease under the direction of the Department of Health. 



RESOLVED, Further, that this Organization recommend in- 

 creased appropriation b}^ the next Legislature for education in prac- 

 tical forestry, the purchase of additional reserve land, and the 

 growing and planting of millions of forest seedling trees where 

 now the Department is able only to plant by thousands, to the 

 end that our farms may be better watered, our mountain sides 

 covered with timber, the destruction by fire prevented, and the 

 general welfare of the Commonwealth augmented for the common 

 good of the whole people. 



RESOLVED, further, that this Department be accorded legisla- 

 tive authority to grow and distribute to farmers, either free or at 

 cost as may be deemed most expedient, seedling forest trees, when 

 this is accompanied by a reasonable assurance on the part of the 

 distributees that they will be planted in accordance with instruc- 

 tions from the Department and that they will be properly cared for. 



A. J. KAHLER, Chairman. 

 HOWARD G. McGOWAN. 

 JASON SEXTON. 

 MATTHEW RODGERS. 

 S. S. BLYHOLDE'R. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND ROAD LAWS. 



By D. A. KNUPPBNBUKG, Chairman, 



The State of Pennsylvania is now undergoing a complete change, 

 not only in the matter of constructing roads, but also in the laws 

 governing their maintenance. To say that there is no need of all 

 this change would not be true. The road that answered the pur- 



