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with a similar committee from the Association of I lorticultural Inspectors in devising 

 a plan to secure authority for the inspection of all plants at the port of entry, t<> 

 secure authority for the eradication and control of all species of insects which maj 

 eater, and to bring aboul a uniformity of regulations for nursery inspection either b) 

 Federal law <»r by uniform State laws. 



A. II. Kirkland, of Massachusetts, was chosen president for the ensuing year, and 

 A. I-". Burgess, of Ohio, secretary-treasurer. 



The American Forestry Association. — Tin- American Forestrj Association mel in 

 Washington, January 16, ami held a two days' meeting, at which a number of inter- 

 esting papers were read, officers elected, and considerable routine business performed. 

 The president of the association, Secretary <>t' Agriculture .lames Wilson, opened the 

 meeting By a brief address, in which he called attention t<> the work of the associa- 

 tion and of the foresl service along forestry lines during the pasl year. Reforestation, 

 in his judgment, should proceed at the rate of a million acres per year. To the 

 forester .'very day of the year should he Arbor Day. The relation between the 

 reclamation service and the forest service was pointed out. The reclamation service 

 deals with the land below the ditch, while the forest service works above the ditch 

 and -eeks t<> preserve the waters for irrigation and manufacturing purp< 



Rev. Edward Everett Hale stated that in the matter of forestry the nation can do 

 what the State or the individual can not d<>. The Government alone is in a position 

 to make long-time investments, and should he the agent in establishing and main- 

 taining forest reserves. 



.Mr. Bainbridge, representing the New York Manufacturing Association, spoke on 

 the relation of forestry to the postal laws, in which he showed that 2,000,000 lbs. of 

 second-class matter L r o through the post-offices in the United States every day in the 

 year. About one-half of this material goes into the wastebasket. This means that 

 3,000,000 lbs. of forests 'j:>> to waste each day. This kind of matter is allowed to go 

 through the mail at 1 ct. per pound, while all other kind- cost 16 cts. per pound. It 

 was believed that if these rates wore adjusted more equitably less quantities of paper 

 material would he wasted and our forests he protected to this extent. 



Samuel B. Elliott called attention to the fact that the Canadian government last 

 yeargave away 7,000,000 forest trees to its people for planting purposes, and sug- 

 gested that this I rovernment might do something along a similar line. 



A number of speakers discussed various phases of the Appalachian and White 

 Mountain forest reserves. The association favored the combining of the four bills 

 now before Congress relative to these reserves, and the supporting of one bill asking 

 for $3,000,000 to purchase land for these reserves. 



Several papers were read by representatives of the reclamation service in which 

 the work of that service and various projects now underway were discussed. It 

 appears that there are 13 projects now under construction and 10 more in view 

 for the coming Bpring, at a total cost of $30,000,000. By lnos it is expected that 

 1,250,000 acres of hind will he under irrigation. This will accommodate aboul 20,000 

 families. Each community thus established will he directly interested in the preser- 

 vation of water, and therefore in the maintenance of forests about the headwaters, 

 since forests are essential to a continuous even flow throughout the year. 



Secretary Wilson was reelected president for the ensuing year. A number of 

 changes were made in the by-laws, by which the society will become more closely 

 affiliated with the State forestry organizations and other societies interested in for- 

 estry matters. 



Referees of Official Agricultural Chemists. — The referee- appointed for this year 

 are announced as follows: Phosphoric acid, B. W.Kilgore, Raleigh, N. C; determina- 

 tion qfn irogen,J. II. Gibboney, Blacksburg, Va.; separation of nitrogenous bodies, R. 

 Harcourt, Guelph, Canada (milk and cheese proteids); potash, A. 1.. Knisely, Cor- 

 vallis, Oreg. ; soils, R. H. Loughridge, Berkeley, ('ah; dairy i>r<nht,-t.<, i\ W. Woll; 



