OUTLINE OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF NEW YORK STATE FORESTRY 

 ASSOCIATION, JANUARY 16, 1913. 



The meeting was well attended and over 50 Charter Members enrolled. The following 

 program was carried out: 



Opening of Meeting Dean Baker 



Address of Welcome Acting Mayor Rill 



Statement of Purpose of Meeting Dean Baker 



Mr. Frank L. Moore, President Empire State Forest Products Association, elected temporary 

 Chairman and Professor F. F. Moon elected Acting Secretary. 



"Forest Mapping in New York" Mr. H. R. Bristol, Forester for D. & H. Railroad Co., 



Plattsburgh, N. Y. 



Address " The Forest and the Nation " Hon. Gifford Pinchot, Former Chief Forester of 



the United States. 



"Forest Management ".... Frank L. Moore, President Empire State Forest Products Assn., 



Temporary Chairman. 



"Branch Associations and the Kindergarten of Forestry,'' Mr. John Dennis, Editorial 



Staff, Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N. Y. 



"The Farmer's Interest in Forestry "... .Prof. Walter Mulford, Dept. of Forestry, State 

 College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y. 



"The Administration of State Lands " Mr. Clifford R. Pettis, Supt. of State Forests of 



N. Y. Conservation Commission, Albany, N. Y. 

 " Progress of Forestry in New York " Dean Hugh P. Baker, N. Y. State College of Forestry, 



In addition the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce held a special meeting with 

 Mr. Pinchot as the speaker and guest of honor and in the evening a banquet was 

 held at the Onondaga Hotel. 



The meeting on the whole was most successful. All of the forestry associa- 

 tions and organizations in New York State were represented and a number of 

 excellent papers were presented. 



Unfortunately, space will not permit the printing of all of these papers in 

 full but such portions are given as show the need of a strong State Forestry 

 Association or any analysis of the forestry problems peculiar to New York State. 



New York has fallen from her position as the greatest lumber producing state in the 

 Nation until at the present time 22 states are found to cut more lumber every year. Over 

 one-half of New York is suited to forest growth and in the future there is every indication 

 that Neiv York will return to her inportant position as a timber producing state. 



New York has more excelsior plants than any other state. Some of our large 

 department stores use over a ton of excelsior a day. One toy company uses over a ton and 

 a half every day. Basswood and poplar are the best excelsior woods. Besides packing 

 purposes, excelsior is used for filtering, upholstering and a fine grade of excelsior, called 

 wood wool, is used for carpets, mattings and even clothing. 



^ York uses about 150 different kinds of foreign and domestic woods in her many 



varied wood-using industries. 



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