74 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



FORESTRY. ' 



Thursday Evening. 



Governor Aaron T. Bliss had promised to be present and act as chair- 

 man of the Forestry session, but was prevented by illness from doing so, 

 and Dr. W. J. Beal, who for many years occupied the chair of forestry in 

 the Agricultural College, and was introduced as having been among the 

 first to agitate the matter of forest legislation and the need of better 

 methods in the care of the Michigan forests, presided in his stead. 



An address had also been promised upon the ''Pulp Industry" as a fac- 

 tor in Michigan forestry by Hon. Arthur Hill, of Saginaw, but illness 

 prevented his attendance. Fortunately Dr. Judson F. Clark, special agent 

 of the Bureau of Forestry of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, was in the city and kindly consented to explain the work that is 

 being done by the government for the benefit of the farmers along this 

 line. 



The M. A. Ct orchestra gave several selections at the opening of the 

 meeting and a number of songs were furnished by the College Glee Club 

 and a piano duet by Miss Freyhofer and Miss Mack, of the department of 

 music. 



Professor E. S. King, of the department of elocution, gave a reading 

 and his efforts were heartily encored. 



After the close of the session at the Armory, the visitors were invited 

 to attend an informal reception at the Women's Building, that they might 

 meet the members of the College faculty and become acquainted with each 

 other. After the close of the reception proper an hour was very pleasantly 

 spent in the parlors and spacious corridors of the Women's Building. 



MICHIGAN'S IMMEDIATE DUTY IN FORESTRY. 



PROF. FILIBERT ROTH, ANN ARBOR. 



Farming is the greatest industry of the State, and the farmers form the 

 bulk of our two million people. Whatever is the State's concern, whatever 

 is to the good of the State, or to the injury of the State, is first of all the 

 farmer's concern, to his good, or to his injury. It is for this reason that 

 I take particular pleasure in calling the attention of the representatives of 

 agriculture to one of the most important subjects which can ever present 

 itself in our State ; to an opportunity to do a great and permanent good, 

 to an opportunity of increasing for all times by millions of dollars the 

 income of the people of our State. But I also call your attention to a 

 leak which needs stopping and which should be stopped at once if we do 

 not want to repeat the history of other states which have preferred to 

 follow the ancient custom of locking the stable after the horse is gone. 



