ARBORICULTURE. 



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SENATOR A. R BEARDSLEY. 



to the subject, with a reference to our 

 society and journal. 



During the last month of the year 1905 

 letters began pouring in from every quar- 

 ter of the land, and have been increasing 

 ever since. Requests for copies of Ar- 

 boriculture and for information upon 

 forestry are now being received, an aver- 

 age of forty per day. Our stenographer 

 is kept busy, as replies are made to each 

 letter. The interest in Arboriculture 

 has thus been awakened as never before, 

 and we are thus enabled to interest many 

 thousands of farmers and business men 

 whom we could not reach before. 



We are pleased to make the acknowl- 

 edgment 3nd to thank the Dr. Miles Med- 

 ical Company for their appreciative and 

 voluntarv advertisement. 



AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT, 



Ever since the organization of the In- 

 ternational Society of Arboriculture, Mr. 

 A. R. Beardsley has been a financially 

 contributing member, and we were 

 pleased to see a gentleman who was so 

 thoroughly interested in the question of 

 our forests and forest trees elected as 

 Senator to the Indiana Legislature two 

 years ago. 



Senator Beardsley is the Business Man- 

 ager of the Dr. Miles Medical Company 

 of Elkhart, Indiana, and when that com- 

 pany determined upon sending out nine 

 million almanacs we were asked to supply 

 a photograph from which an electrotype 

 could be made, and also grant the privi- 

 lege of printing some selection from 

 Arboriculture, which, of course, we 

 were happy to do. 



So in this immense edition of Dr. Allies 

 Almanac for 1906 there was given an ex- 

 cellent description of the Catalpa tree, 

 and a very prominent page was devoted 



ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTION AND 

 EXPERIMENT IN FORESTRY. 



Prof. S. B. Green has prepared a bill, 

 which has been introduced in Congress 

 by Representative Davis, of Minnesota, 

 and has received approval of Mr. Gififord 

 Pinchot, Chief of the Federal Forestry 

 Service. It provides for an appropriation 

 by Congress of $3,500 for each State and 

 Territory, $1,500 of which is to be used 

 for instruction in the agricultural colleges 

 and $2,000 for experiments in forestry in 

 the agricultural and experiment stations. 

 The money is to be used exclusively for 

 instruction and experimentation in for- 

 estry, and the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 by the terms of the bill, has the power to 

 withhold the appropriation from any in- 

 stitution which he thinks is not properly 



usmg it. 



It is Professor Green's idea that a 

 measure of this kind should be made a 

 part of the national forestry policy, and in 



