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Forest Conservation in the United States. 



The Supreme Court, Washington, has found to be constitutional 

 the reservation by the Federal authorities of forests in various 

 parts of the country, without the consent of the States in which 

 such forests are located. 



This decision sustains the validity of the modern conservation 

 policy inaugurated by Mr Roosevelt. 



Forestry in Canada. 



At the opening of the Dominion Forestry Convention at 

 Quebec, the Governor-General, Earl Grey, said : " I hope that 

 one result of this Convention will be to induce those to consider 

 the forest as a friend who in early years may have considered it 

 only as an enemy. Upon the conservation of the forests depend 

 alike the uniform level of navigable streams, the fertility of the 

 soil, and consequently the wealth and happiness of the nation." 



Retirement of Mr James Kay. 

 ( With Portrait) 



After a service of forty-seven years, Mr James Kay, wood- 

 manager on the Bute estate, has just passed into retirement, 

 and the sincere wish of his many friends will be that he may 

 long be spared to enjoy the well-earned rest which, by the 

 kindness of his employer, he is now enabled to take. 



Born and brought up on the Hamilton estate, Mr Kay 

 served three of the heads of that House, but before entering the 

 service of the late Marquis of Bute he spent five years on the 

 Lee and Carnwath estates, in the employment of the late Sir 

 Norman Macdonald Lockhart, Bart. He joined the Royal 

 Scottish Arboricultural Society in 1867, so that he is now one of 

 its oldest members, and he was elected an honorary member in 

 1904. Throughout his long membership Mr Kay has taken an 

 active part in the work of the Society, and, though he is now in 

 his seventy-sixth year, his interest in its doings is as keen as ever. 

 Of an inventive turn of mind, he has devised some useful forest 

 implements, and several of these are illustrated and described 

 in the Transactions. Amongst them may be mentioned a 

 dendrometer (vol. v., p. 170), a transplanting machine for 

 removing large trees (vol. vii., p. 186), and a straining post 



