ANNUAL 'MEETING 



Whether timber growing will be 

 undertaken on any large scale by 

 private owners in this country, even 

 under the most favorable conditions of 

 fire-protection, taxation and location 

 is problematical. The work is appar- 

 ently one mainly for the National and 

 State Governments though much can be 

 done by the private citizen who bears in 

 mind the Scottish Laird's injunction in 

 the " Heart of Mid-Lothian," when on 

 his death bed he enjoined tree planting 

 on his son, saying, u Jock, when ye hae 

 naething else to do, ye may be aye 

 sticking in a tree ; it will be growing 

 Jock, when ye're sleepin'." 



Walter Scott in a footnote says of 

 this, " The author has been flattered by 

 the assurance that this naive mode of 

 recommending arboriculture (which 

 was actually delivered in these very 

 words by a Highland Laird while on 

 his death bed, to his son) had so much 

 weight with a Scottish earl, as to lead 

 to his planting a large tract of country." 



Finally turning to what has actually 

 been done so far in our National and 

 State Forest Reserves, we find that the 

 National Government has, under the 

 provisions of acts of Congress enacted 

 in 1891 and 1896, set aside for National 

 Forestry Reserves in some twenty 

 States, areas comprising in all about 

 140,000,000 acres (not counting lands 

 located within the boundaries of the Na- 

 tional Reserves, but which have been 

 alienated) in addition to which there 

 are nearly 27,000,000 acres in Alaska, 

 and about 66,000 acres in Porto Rico 



167,066,000 acres of Government re- 

 serves; if we reckon with this the land 

 located within the boundaries of the 

 National Forests, approximately 23,- 

 000,000 acres, which have been alien- 

 ated, we have about 190,000,000 acres 

 in all. These reserves are admirably 

 managed by the United States Forest 

 Service, organized in the Department of 

 Agriculture, and under the charge of 

 Henry S. Graves, United States For- 

 ester. 



Fourteen States have set aside areas 

 ranging from 1,950 acres in one State 

 to 231,350 in Michigan, 400,000 in Wis- 

 consin, 983,529 in Pennsylvania, and 

 1,644,088 in New York, as State For- 

 ests, the total areas so set aside in all 

 States being 3,426,832 acres, and these 

 States in their Forestry or Conserva- 

 tion Departments are studying and pro- 

 moting the best utilization of these lands 

 for the public needs and in this work 

 we cannot too heedfully remember the 

 wise words of Dr. C. W. Hayes, who 

 when Chief Geologist of the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey well epitomized the work 

 of Conservation by characterizing it as 

 " Utilization with a maximum effi- 

 ciency and a minimum waste." 



That is the lesson of all Conservation 

 and of Forestry as one of its branches 

 to so conserve and handle our natu- 

 ral resources that our people shall have 

 their benefit and use and that they shall 

 not be locked up for the possible needs 

 of future generations to the exclusion of 

 the needs of the men of today. 



The Neiv York Central Railroad, on their lines from Utica to Malone, from Harrisville 

 to Newton Falls, the Delaware & Hudson R. R. from Plattsburgh to Lake Placid, are 

 required to use oil as a fuel from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m., from April^ i$th to November i, 

 pursuant to an order of the Public Service Commission issued early in 1909. 



The N. Y. C. R. R. has applied to the Public Service Commission for relief from that 

 order upon the Adirondack Division upon the ground that the increased price of oil and 

 the increased number of trains have increased their operating expenses to the extent thrtt 

 the cost of oil over coal amounts to $106,000.00 per year. They offer as a substitute a 

 so-called super heater locomotive with perfected ash pan and careful employees working 

 under instructions which they claim will eliminate the danger of forest fires from coal 

 burning locomotives. 



