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The American Forestry Congress. — The 



American Forestry Congress held an in- 

 teresting session in Boston in September. 

 About a hundred members were present, 

 who, by their own enthusiasm and by the 

 reports they were able to make of the 

 growth of interest in the subject, testified 

 to the healthy progress which the cause of 

 the protection and renewal of the woods is 

 making in this country. Arbor-day is now 

 observed as a festival in fifteen States, in a 

 manner which well shows that the public 

 are gradually coming into an appreciation 

 of the sentiment which it typifies. Forest 

 commissioners or commissions have been 

 appointed by a number of States. Pro- 

 fessor B. 0. Northrup described the experi- 

 ment of Mr. H. G. Russell, of East Green- 

 wich, Rhode Island, in cultivating coniferous 

 and deciduous trees upon a tract of two 

 hundred acres along the shores of Narra- 

 gansett Bay, sixty acres of which was a 

 barren "sand-blow," where every one said 

 no trees could be made to grow. His meth- 

 od was to protect the trees and fix the sand 

 by brush until the trees (which were set 

 out) could take care of themselves. A resi- 

 dent stated that land on Cape Cod, which 

 was a drug at twenty -five or fifty cents an 

 acre twenty-five years ago, was now, in con- 

 sequence of the growth of trees upon it, 

 worth twenty dollars an acre, and desirable 

 for residences. Mr. Fernow, corresponding 

 secretary, read a paper on "Lumber-Waste 

 as a Ferfihzer." It proposed a plan for 

 the utilization of the brush, etc., left by the 

 loggers, which is now nothing but material 

 for starting forest-fires, by rending it up 

 into fine shreds or shavings, and then using 

 it as bedding for horses and cattle, after 

 which it will become manure. Mr. Fernow 

 presented facts which tend to show that 

 such applications may be made with profit 

 all around. The subject of forest -fires 

 came under discussion, and statements were 

 made respecting their preventability and 

 showing that they do not cause so great a 



