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simply and spontaneously pay our tribute to them. We can keep fresh our 

 memory of what they gave, and we can perpetuate their names in familiar places. 

 It has been happily suggested that we may do this by adorning with young trees, 

 each named for a fallen soldier, our waysides, our yards, and our pleasure places. 

 And in most of our States Arbor Day is at hand. This year we may give to that 

 day a meaning more profound, a purpose more exalted, yet also an association 

 more personal. 



"I conceive that, if the origin of the day be borne in mind, the invitation to 

 our fellow-citizens to join in making it a day 'especially set apart and conse- 

 crated for tree planting' may appropriately come from this department. I take 

 the liberty, therefore, of suggesting that you commend to the citizens of your 

 State, and particularly to those in attendance upon its schools, such as an observ- 

 ance of Arbor Day as will secure a widespread planting of trees, dedicated to 

 those whose lives have been sacrificed in the great struggle to preserve Ameri- 

 can rights and the civilization of the world." 



Forestry Legislation in Michigan 



The planting of ornamental and memorial trees along the highways 

 in Michigan, under the direction of the forestry department of the 

 Michigan Agricultural College, is provided for in a bill recently intro- 

 duced in the State legislature. Another bill provides for the extension 

 of the territory under the jurisdiction of the forest fire department to 

 include such areas in eleven counties of the States as may need forest 

 fire protection. This action is taken because of the need of protection 

 for the young stands and cut-over timberlands in those counties. If 

 this bill is passed it will extend the region under the jurisdiction of the 

 department considerably. An amendment in the forest-fire law is pro- 

 posed which will require that persons setting fire for the purpose of 

 clearing land between April i and December i must first obtain a per- 

 mit from the State Game, Fish, and Forest Fire Commission, or from 

 a deputy, or from supervisors of the township, when and wherever con- 

 tiguous timber, slash, debris, or other combustible material liable to 

 ignition exists on land adjoining that which is being cleared. Failure 

 to do so is made a misdemeanor and punishable on conviction by a fine 

 of not less than $5 nor more than $100, or by imprisonment in the 

 county jail for thirty days, or by both fine and imprisonment. It is 

 hoped that this will make the present law effective. 



Yellow Pine in Michigan 



The plantations of western yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa) which 

 have been made in diiTerent localities upon the plains region of Michi- 

 gan show varying results for this species. The growth of stock planted 



