24 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Dec. 5. Order No. 140, A. B. Lyman, prem- 

 iums, summer meeting, 1905 141.00 

 Dec. 5. Balance on hand 1,855.17 



$5,667.53 



ANNUAL MEETING, 1905, MINNESOTA FORESTRY 



ASSOCIATION. 



MRS. LYDIA PHILLIPS WILLIAMS, SECRETARY. 



The annual meeting of the State Forestry Association, which 

 convened in Minneapolis, Tuesday, December 7th, has been declared 

 by many of the friends of forestry to be one of the best meetings 

 ever held in the history of the, organization. 



A live issue — maintaining the Minnesota Forestry Reserve 

 under the Morris Act — led to a discussion that forced home the 

 truth that upon the forestry policy of Minnesota largely depends 

 the future prosperity of the state. 



After a few words of greeting from President Loringl. Mrs. 

 Lydia Phillips Williams gave a report of the National Forest Con- 

 gress, held at Washington, stating that the meeting was epoch mak- 

 ing, since the great commercial and industrial interests of the coun- 

 try were represented by delegates advocating conservative forestry. 

 Following the reports of the congress the danger that threatens the 

 Forest Reserve, through the activity of certain selfish local interests 

 that are laboring to secure the repeal of the Morris Act, was ex- 

 plained and illustrated by cartoons. 



Mrs. J. B. Hudson, the next speaker, told of her visit to the re- 

 serve and made some telling points in favor of maintaining the re- 

 serve. She declared the soil better adapted to forest culture than 

 agriculture and that Cass Lake's one show garden had to be fertil- 

 ized, artificially irrigated and put under the care of an experienced 

 German gardener before tomatoes could be raised or any satisfactory 

 results obtained. The speaker refuted the statement made by 

 enemies of the Morris Act that "blow-downs" on the reserve have 

 seriously or permanently injured the prospects of forest reproduc- 

 tion, and against the claim that white pine will not reproduce itself 

 stated that the ground on the cut-overs was well sprinkled with 

 seedlings, and exhibited several specimens of white pine from the 

 reserve. 



Mr. Geo. H. Maxwell, chairman of the National Irrigation As- 

 sociation, made the thrilling and convincing addresss of the after- 

 noon, showing that forestry, irrigation and drainage must be consid- 

 ered as factors of one problem if the best interests of industrial, 

 commercial and agricultural development are served, and said in 

 part: 



