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ARBORICULTURE. 



bills and traveling- expenses without 

 limit. 



But, strange to say, this army neither 

 plants trees nor encourages others to do 

 so, but has played the role of obstruc- 

 tionists, advising individuals and corpo- 

 rations not to plant trees, and has in 

 many ways antagonized the work of the 

 International Society of Arboriculture, 

 which society has planted many millions 

 of forest trees in America, and also in 

 Europe, Asia, Africa and the Australian 

 archipelago. 



the handling of the money appropriated 

 by the Legislature. 



But we have to deal with the many 

 dishonorable acts of the Bureau of For- 

 estry toward the International Society of 

 Arboriculture, and the work of this So- 

 ciety among the railway systems. 



Officials of the Forestry Bureau have 

 undertaken to persuade railway compa- 

 nies which had employed the Interna- 

 tional Society of Arboriculture to plant 

 trees, not to follow the advice of this 

 Societv, but to turn the work over to the 



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The Forestry Bureau is one of absorp- 

 tion, reaching out with its tentacles to 

 grasp everything in sight, and gain con- 

 trol of every organization. State or inde- 

 pendent, which undertakes to promote 

 the planting, care, management and per- 

 petuation of American forests. It is 

 well known how the Bureau attempted to 

 secure control of finances of the State 

 of New York, and to displace tlie most 

 excellent forestry service of that State, 

 in order that it might give employment 

 to its own army of employees, and secure 



United States Forestry Bureau. These 

 officials have advised the railway compa- 

 nies that the trees recommended by the 

 Society would not grow in their terri- 

 tory, and by such misrepresentations 

 have endeavored to prevent the planting 

 of trees, and in some cases have suc- 

 ceeded in prejudicing some railway offi- 

 cials, so that the plans for forest plant- 

 ing have been entirely abandoned. 



The Department of Agriculture has 

 sent out men to make alleged soil analy- 

 ses, to determine whether trees could be 



