THE STATE REVIEW. 



Michigan Forestry Association. 



The Michigan Forestry Association wa s organized in Grand Rapids August 30, 1905, having for its object the promotion of a rational system ot 



-:ry in Michigan. The society is managed by the following roster of officer; : President, John H. Bissell, of Detroit, Vice-President, C. S. Udell, 



Grand Rapids; Secretary, Henry G. Stevens, Detroit: Treasurer, J. J. Hub bell. Manistee. Board of Directors, Mrs. Francis King, Alma; L. L. Hub- 



bard, H ought' m: S. M. Lemon, Grand Rapids: H. X. Loud, Au Sable; Thos. B. Wyman, Munising; Mrs. J. C. Sharp, Jackson; C. D. Lawton, Lawton. 



The State Forestry Commission Charles \V. Garfield, Grand Rapids; Arthur Hill, Saginaw ; William H. Rose, Lansing. 



The Early History of Forestry in Michigan. 



By Prof. W. J. Beal, Michigan Agricultural College. 



;>.ftcr the 

 Mid.:. . ricttlturai 



the teaching force wa- pt-r- 



mitti npy what is termed a chair by 



ml in 

 the v Oliver Wendall Holmes. 



.11 years the 

 writer wa- known as 



:<1 Horticulture, and at the end of 

 period. -onii cd that he 1 



titled Pr tany and Forestry, not 



.; that he would do much in fore-try. 

 :hen demanded by anybody. 



The >tate hoard adopted the - n and 



continued for twenty- 



Anticipatintr the nnure use of it. in 

 thirt; :all planta- 



tion after twice enlarged, in all 



i wo acre-, containing one hundred and 

 fifty-two species. Many of these thrived and 

 attr.i iention. As there were no 



patti <llow at that time, mistake- were 



made in the planting: still, the mi-takes have 



:n-triR-ti\e a- ll: 



After a while -oine lectures were given to 



nt- and later .. : ,\ of them decided to 



n occupation. During 



thirty lecture- were given at 



farmer-' institutes in a- many different coun- 



ach a resolution was usually 



unanimously p.i--ed that it was high time that 



Mil : J - regarding 



the i ent of her cut-over tax lands, but 



when th ire convened every one had 



apparen 1 '.; --ipport of th 



lution. .ndidatc for the position 



ter. In 1> V 7. Hon. X. .V. I'.eecher got a 



bill through the legislature 'iitr a 



n. and later Gov. Luce 



n. C. \V. Garfield and the writer 



.rry out the pro\ the law. One 



,.irs for two years were at our 



"y, but for clerk hire. 



Til-health. Mr 

 .ittle. and owing to du- 



..I<le to <! 



much in the way of in\ e-tigating forest prob- 

 aml 27. 1---. l:eld an c-n- 



ntion at Grand Rapids, 

 and only report was printed 1. 



ter hi enactment, the 

 '.vlnick legislature repealed the act as a 



my. 

 :>art of my work for the exper; 



culture. 1 -i ler-ed Jack pine land at Baldwin. 

 on. H;:- rayling and AiiSahle. 



and otli 



Incidentally, in May 

 .it two acres at Grayling were 



including a few 



a few tree- were plant- 



5t pine plains that could be 



_:rown now 



lave been 



these tree-, including chest- 

 ~; walnut, hie'. 



ney locust, red elm 



and Anerican elm. -oon perished or showed 



ed. those 



likely tl !i land are 



i'ine. white spruce and Jack-pine and 



-ibly wliiu- pine and red cedar. 



Tile majority of people who are well in- 



d and of sound judgment have never 



claimed that the genuine Jack-pine sands were 



;al to the burr-oak land of Lenawee 



and Hillsdale or the prairie- of Kalamazoo and 

 Berrien. After the State Board of Agriculture 

 had voted to discontinue the experiments on 

 the jack-pine plains, at a farmers' institute held 

 ;<t Tawas City, some geniu- of the neighhor- 

 iwinq; original production, 



\\liich contains some pr ruth. It went 



a> follow:., without correcv 



"Pause by those mounds and shed a tear. 



For the hopes of the plains lie.- hurried here. 



Look on this graveyard as you 



It'- tile liurrial place of Egyptian gr 



The professors are gone, their mission is done, 



They left like the settler-, one by one: 



here our State in the days of yore. 

 Droped out c: -me thousands more. 



The Professors are gone, their mission is done, 

 They left like the set:: 'iy one. 



As tl 1 the AnSable to take the train 



We heard them murmur \hi< -ad refrain: 

 We are going Inme. vain all our toil. 

 The scenery i- grand, but dam the soil." 



nating with those in the other row. A portion 

 of tl> left in grass. most of them were 



cultivated for foir 



During the past thirty-five years, numerous 

 rather brief contributions were furnished the 

 State Horticultural Society and a number of 

 newspapers and magazines. During portions 

 of the last thirty-live years several other per- 

 il more or less active in the in- 

 of forestry in Michigan, notably the 

 Hon. C. W. Gargeld, Prof. V. M. Spaulding, 

 Dr. R. C. Kedzie and the Hon. T. T. Lyon. and 

 in later days, the names of ma: 

 of whom are active in the State Forest; 

 sociation. 



Roth Is Gracious. 



Professor Roth, of Ann Arbor, delivered a 



'. lecture at Alma recently before the Farmers' 

 Institute of Gratiot county and the citizens of 

 Alma on what he characterized as "the great- 

 est branch of agriculture forestry." He took 



for his subjec' ry, the Right Way and 



the Wrong Way." The lecture was illustrated 

 by the use of the stereopticon. with views 

 from the : :" Germany and Switzerland, 



he great forests of the western part of 

 the United States. He spoke also to the stu- 

 dents in the college chapel, in his usual felicit- 

 ous and forceful way. and awakened much in- 



1 terest in his subject. 



Professor Roth has been very gracious to 

 Alma, always coming when called upon, and 

 the people there are beginning to think that 



' they have a copyright on his services when 

 anything is wanted on the subject of fo: 



At the ' C. D. Smith. P 



. Hculture. the Board placed the man- 

 f the woodland of the College in 

 my charge. This included about 200 acres. 

 ; which were well cut over. A care- 

 ful s" '.e land v and a well de- 

 nned policy adopted. Undesirable timber was 

 gradually removed and in open places many 



planted. In the 

 rough field of 



>i\ and one-half : to white 



pines. IS inch \m feet apart, expect- 



:it in tu .-ild he in- 



i t" crowd the pine and induce them to 



grow tall. For -oine rea-on the planting of 



for the i. 



.in watch the behavior plantation 



as al It has become a mi 



tractive and uni<p::< v.ng tim! 



a gon r students and farmers 



- are very 



seldom met with in Inghani county. In the 

 sprin^ wind brake, a mile and a 



quarter h laceil on the west line 



of th farm C" of white pine, 



with some arbor vitae along the lowland. The 

 in two r. -W- twelve feet apart, 

 the trees in each row twelve feet apart alter- 



A Reporter's Slip. 



Editor State Review: May I correct the 

 wrong impression given you by the following 

 paragraph in your issue for December? 



"The name of Dr. Huhbard was added to 

 risfinal list of dir> on of 



Mr-. King, who i- conversant with the valu- 

 able work that lu - in support of the 



movement in the upper peninsula." 

 I merely suggested that Dr. Hubbard. who 

 i member of the original board of di- 

 rectors, should be asked to serve again. 

 Very truly yours. 



LOUISA Y. KIXG. 



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