THE STATE REVIEW. 



C. D. LAWTON 



THOS. B. WYMAN HENRY N. LOUD MRS. J. C. SHARP 



DIRECTORS MICHIGAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



L. L HUBBARD 



A forest which has become treeless or has 

 been left waste prior to the promulgation of 

 this law may be ordered by the minister of state 

 supervising such affairs to reforest the same 

 within a period which shall be prescribed by 

 him. In case this is neglected the state can go 

 on, do the work, collect the expense of the 

 owner, and if this is impossible, may take over 

 the land as a semi-state forest. Land of this 

 kind is exempt from land tax and all other pub- 

 lic burdens for the afforested portion for twen- 

 ty-five years. Plains, mountains, hills, or bar- 

 ren lands on which afforestation has been 

 newly made shall have the same exemption. 



MRS. KING'S DISCUSSION. 



AN ACTIVE WORKER TELLS WHAT WO- 

 MEN HAVE DONE FOR FORESTRY. 



Mrs. Frances King, of Alma, who has been 

 a most active worker in the association since 

 its organization, and a -leader in the Gratiot 

 county work, was called on to discuss the 

 topic, "Our association, its progress and diffi- 

 culties." 



"As to our progress in Gratiot,'.' responded 

 Mrs. King, "the report of the committee on 

 promotion and' publicity, which will be given 

 later, will best show you. I have a map here 

 on which you will notice that the nine counties 

 of the state in which local forestry auxiliaries 

 have been fbrmed are blocked out in rose 

 color, the color of hope. Three counties 

 Wexford, Genesee and Saginnw have back- 

 slidden in the past three months, but to offset 

 this we have great encouragement from the 

 upper peninsula, due largely to the work of Dr. 

 llubbard, of Houghton, and Mr. Wyman, of 

 Munising. 



"We have an ardent sympathizer in our 

 forestry movement in Wm. T. Pitt, a descend- 

 ant of the celebrated Wm. Pitt, of England, 

 and his peer in many ways, who lives about 

 seven miles from Alma in a log cabin. 



"Three difficulties have confronted us in our 

 work: 



First The giving up of committee work 

 after a few months by people who promised to 

 be faithful. 



Second The necessary change in the secre- 

 taryship of the asosciation has been a disturb- 

 ing factor. Mr. Stevens has kindly consented 

 i a,-.sume the responsible petition, and I feel 

 sure that with the careful, systematic methods 

 the work will now go along smoothly. 



Third The non-answering of letters. After 

 sending out hundreds of letters this year, with 

 few replies, I asked someone 'What's the mat- 

 ter?' and the reply was. 'They've gone fishing.' 

 I have reached the conclusion that corre- 

 spondence is not the best method, that it is 

 the spoken word, the personal contact, that 

 counts. Ten minutes' talk to a body of women 

 wins best results. With most women some 

 detail, such as the wholesale slaughter of 

 Christinas trees, will secure their sympathies 



and support quickest. \Ye are all indebted to 

 Lydia Phillips Williams, of Minnesota, who 

 has clone so much to spread the seeds of this 

 Christmas tree gospel. Then, lastly, we must 

 not forget to work with the children." 



Prof. Roth's Tribute. 



"We all appreciate Mrs. King's work," said 

 Prof. Roth at the conclusion of her admirable 

 talk. Continuing he paid a tribute "to the 

 noble efforts of the women of the state along 

 forestry lines, and introduced to the conven- 

 tion Mrs. J. C. Sharp, of Jackson, as the lady 

 who first brought this subject to the front, 

 having first stirred the club women three years 

 ago, so they now have special days for lor- 

 estry." 



"This forestry work appeals to every club 

 woman," said Mrs. Sharp, "and we have 195 

 hard working clubs in the state. As Mrs. King 

 says, personal contact means a great deal. At 

 the last meeting of the federation of woman's 

 clubs the proposition that this body join the 

 state forestry association came up. The dis- 

 cussion developed that there was some ques- 

 tion as to the policy of this, though a com- 

 mittee brought in a resolution to become mem- 

 bers of the forestry association for the next 

 ten years, and to have a representative at its 

 meetings." 



Mrs. King quoted Miss Martha Baldwin, of 

 Bay City, as saying that 184 out of the 195 

 women's clubs are to devote one to three days 

 to forestry this year. 



Mr. Garlield added a good word for the 

 women's clubs of the state. Having addressed 

 the Monday club at Marshall recently, he 

 found sympathetic listeners, eager to do sonic- 

 thing. "What can we do?" was the question 

 on their lips, and they ask it every time," 

 said Mr. Gartield. "which is an entirely differ- 

 ent attitude thin the men often take." 



Mr. Wyman's Experience. 



THE GRAND ISLAND FORESTER TELLS 

 ABOUT THE WORK HE IS DOING. 



The convention then enjoyed a treat that 

 was not on the program, a talk by Mr. Thomas 

 B. Wyman, of Munising, a forester in the em- 

 ploy of the Cleveland- Cliffs Co., wh i said in 

 part : 



"I attended your meeting in this city a year 

 ago, and it did me good. Our company is 

 trying to establish systematic management of 

 its forests. The Cleveland Cliffs Co. is the 

 largest holder of timber land in the upper 

 peninsula, and of its 1.000, 000 acres probably 

 000,000 acres are timbered lands. There is 

 some difficulty, as you may easily see, in tak- 

 ing care of this large holding. We lack the 

 men to do this: then, since on portions of our 

 holdings the timber is held by others, we are 

 tied down in many cases by ridiculous con- 

 tracts and cannot proceed along rational for- 

 estry lines until these expire. We can only 

 drop around and advise with these people, 



showing them that it is a loss to cut in a cer- 

 tain manner. If they hold a contract to cut 

 only the hemlock, we try to show them how 

 to do this without destroying the other timber. 



"We must cut over our hardwood lands for 

 kiln wood (charcoal). There's more profit in 

 it than in working the trees .into saw-timber 

 or cordwood. Our farm land will produce 

 good crops, though in places it is sandy, with 

 limestone close to the surface. It is not our 

 policy to replat the hardwood lands, but only 

 the lands deficient in fertility. We plan even- 

 tually to plant everything we cut over. Ill 

 places where the pin-cherry has a heavy 

 growth there is difficulty in planting, though 

 pine trees planted tin-re will eventually o 

 to]> them. 



"At Coalwood, our cordwood station, we are 

 establishing a nursery to raise all our trees 

 for planting. This was started on a small 

 scale last fall. A fire occurred this year in 

 1,000 acres of our young pine and the damage 

 was severe. The seed trees were destroyed. BO 

 that another crop will be a long time coming. 



Three foresters are employed by the com- 

 pany. We have the Munising district, and will 

 later establish the Seney district. One man 

 can't do much with 200.000 acres, but it's a 

 case of development, and the plan will work 

 out successfully. President Mather is very 

 much interested in reforestation, and is being 

 loyally supported." 



Mr. Garfield "What was the size of the 

 young pine destroyed by fire, that you spoke 



of?" ' 



Mr. Wyman "They were of a variety of 

 Sizes, since seed years differ, but would aver- 

 age about five feet in height." 



Mr. GarlU-ld "Xovv. I want to ask Prof. 

 Roth if he can figure for us the loss incurred 

 in the burning of this one plantation?" 



Prof. Roth's Calculations. 



Prof. Roth "The question might be an- 

 swered by asking how much it would cost to 

 put the trees back. The trees bought at a 

 nursery would cost $3 per thousand, and the 

 least price at which you could figure the trees- 

 would be $5 a thousand. You can safely figure 

 the tree at $2, labor in setting Sri. or a total of 

 $."> per thousand. Xow. we ordinarily set about 

 I.OiK) trees per acre in the 'slash.' so you can 

 safely figure the number of trees in the burned 

 self-seeded plantation of which we are speak- 

 ing at M.IKK). 1 have given our rangers instruc- 

 tion to figure a tree worth as many ecu: 

 it is feet in height, so that the trees destroyed 

 in this case at live cents each were worth $100 

 per acre. 



"Xow. if this answers your question, Mr 

 (iarlH-ld. I would like to ask Mr. Wyman t<> 

 tell us briefly about his system of getting the 

 upper peninsula supervisors interested in for- 

 estry." 



Mr. Wyman "1 am located at Munising, n 

 town of only \!.:>o:t people, and the country is 

 so sparsely settled that it is difficult to get 

 hold of folks. So I adopted the plan of pre- 

 paring a personal letter and sending it to each 



