588 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



tion is always sure to be received with hesitation, your committee believe 

 that the progress made by the Forestry bill was encouraging, and that 

 th* efforts of this association to secure forestry legislation should be re- 

 doubled, because of the evident need of such legislation, and because our 

 state is today wholly without forestry laws. 



Aside from the hurry and confusion of the final session of the senate, 

 in the opinion of your committee the chief cause of the ultimate failure 

 of the bill is to be sought in the lack of unanimity of opinion among those 

 who favor forestry legislation. To some our bill seemed to offer too little 

 inducement, while on the other hand there were those who objected to 

 any concession to tree planters. It is tre that the bill as submitted did 

 not offer great pecuniary inducements to those who would cultivate trees, 

 but it was a beginning which would have lead to better results. It will 

 be difficult to secure more radical legislation for the encouragement of 

 tree planting so long as the citizens of our state recall the abuses of former 

 laws on this subject, and for that reason a moderate beginning was rec- 

 ommended, chiefly in the hope that it might produce educational results. 



Your committee believe that the bill as recommended a year ago 

 should be strengthened somewhat in those features which are intended 

 to serve as an inducement to tree planters, but rather than make a definite 

 recommendation along this line at the present time, we recommend that 

 steps be taken to place the whole question before the people of this state 

 at agricultural and horticultural meetings, through the press and in such 

 other manner as may bring about the discussion of questions of tree 

 planting, and that the results of these discussions be collated in such 

 manner that they may serve as the basis for recommendations to the 

 Thirtieth General Assembly, and that either a committee, or the regular 

 officers of this association, be entrusted with the direction of this work, 

 to report at our next annual meeting, and that the discussion of this 

 question be made a special order of business in that meeting. 



Respectfully submitted, 



B. Shimek, Iowa City, 

 Elmer Reeves, Waverly, 



C. A. Mosier, Des Moines, 

 Committee on Legislation. 



Although this bill was published in the proceedings of the first annual 

 meeting of the Park and Forest association, because of its importance it 

 is printed again, and all persons interested in furthering the objects of the 

 bill are earnestly requested to correspond with Prof B. Shimek on the 

 desirability of passing some law favoring the planting of trees. 



K H. Pammel, 



Secretary. 



