THE RELATION OF GAME PRESERVATION TO FORESTRY. 4 II 



To show how thinking' men who beHeve in game protection 

 and have advocated it all their lives think about forest protection, 

 I will quote the language of a man, who, perhaps, is known better 

 than any other man in the United States, and that is Alexander 

 Starbuck, who has been the president of the Cuvier Club of Cin- 

 cinnati for the past nine years and is one of the foremost game 

 protectors in the country today. He says, in his closing address 

 in talking about game protection: "To give absolute protection, 

 it is, I think, necessary to add another plank to our platform, and 

 that is forest preservation. For with its destruction everything 

 goes, bird, fish, stream and all that thrives therein, even the soil 

 itself. For conclusive proof of the latter read the histories of the 

 Roman Empire, Syria, Persia, Asia Minor and portions of Italy. 

 All of these regions were once timbered countries and richly pro- 

 ductive. Now they are horrible deserts, seamed with ravines and 

 gullies, piled with ridges of sand, utterly incapable of reproducing 

 the wood which once covered them. Such appalling destruction 

 fills all human hearts with sorrow and is a subject that should 

 arouse the attention of every loyal citizen with a view to looking 

 to our congress for its speedy protection and preservation for all 

 time." • :^ 



Prof. Green : I am especially glad that we have this paper from 

 Mr. Fullerton. It is right along the line of those who are inter- 

 ested in the preservation of game in the woods and those who are 

 interested in forest preservation. Their interests are the same, 

 and while we have been working along separate lines, yet here is 

 an overture from the executive officer of the state game and fish 

 commission to unite forces in a way that may accomplish a great 

 deal of good and that will certainly cement a friendship between 

 this game and fish commission and those that are in love with 

 forestry in the state. Mr. Fullerton told me he was in favor of 

 something of this sort, and he thought that forestry and the game 

 and fish commission would never be properly in harmony until we 

 had a common ground on which we could come together. 



"Vegetable Sponges. — One may grow sponges in his own garden. — The 

 vegetable sponges that are commonly sold in drug stores and used in the 

 bath room are produced by a vine like a cucumber which anyone may grow in 

 his garden. In tropical countries these vegetable sponges are often used for 

 dishrags (being particularly useful for scouring pans and kettles>, and it has 

 been suggested that housewives in the North should " grow their own dish- 

 rags," since a clean sponge could be used for each dish-washing performance 

 and then thrown away, thus relegating to history the rubbing out of greasy 

 cloth. 



