Annual Meeting at St. Joseph. lit 



leading all other states of the Missouri Valley. If tlie farmers 

 and fruit growers of our state would make a determined effort she 

 might have again. In the legislature about to convene, there will 

 be many farmers who ought, and no doubt do by this time, appre- 

 ciate the efforts of such an officer and who would lend their 

 influence in bringing about such an appointment. It can be done 

 by a simple concurrent resolution. In this connection I am 

 moved to say that we still have the illustrations in the agricultural 

 reports for 1869, 70, 71 and 72, and I assert th^t these entomolog- 

 ical illustrations never have and never can be surpassed in accuracy 

 and truthfulness of delineation. By the way, how many of the 

 gentlemen present have the reports just referred to ? I pause for 

 X reply. I know that a good many of these reports have been sold 

 for waste paper at 2 cents per pound, or less ; whereas, had they 

 been preserved on the shelves of the state board of agriculture they 

 could now be sold, if it were lawful, for S2 per copy. Prof, Eiley, 

 himself, wovild pay that price for a goodly number of copies. 



In conclusion, gentlemen, I would urge upon you the pro- 

 priety of jjreparing a preamble and resolution looking to the 

 appointment of a state entomologist for Missouri, and also the 

 appointment of a committee to present the same with a j^etition to 

 our legislature about to convene in the state capital, and urge upon 

 the legislators the desired law and its passage. 



All of which is most respectfully submitted. 



Then followed a paper by F, P. Baker, of Topeka, Kansas, on 



WHAT HAS BEEX DOXE FOR FORESTRY, 



In assigning the writer a subject for a paper to be read before 

 this meeting of the State Horticultural Society, the theme selected 

 for him was, ''What is the present status of Governmental effort 

 to promote the interests of Forestry in the United States, or What 

 has organized effort accomplished in the endeavor to encourage 

 forest -tree planting, and to j^reserve timber already growing ? " 



This, considered as one question, or two, affords a very wide 

 field. In fact, it opens up the discussion of all that has been done 

 by the General Government, by State Associations, by local Horti- 

 cultural and Forestry Associations, and by individual tree planters 

 in the United States. I have decided to " lump " the subject, so 

 to speak, and allude briefly and in a general way to the nature and 

 result of all sorts of effort, public and private, general and local, 

 under the head, " What Has Been Done for Forestry." 



