MICHIGAN 



ROAM 



Vol. 5. No. 16. 



DETROIT, MICH., OCTOBER, 1909. 



Price: Ten Cents 



Michigan Forestry Association 



(Organized to Promote a Rational State Forest Policy) 



Fourth Annual Meeting 



To Convene in the 



City of Jackson - November 9th and 10th, 1909 



On Invitation of 



The Jackson Board of Commerce 



Officers of Association. 



JOHN H. BISSELL, President. 

 MAURICE QUINN, Vice President. 

 WM. B. MERSHON, Treasurer. 

 HENRY G. STEVENS, Secretary. 



Officers of Board of Commerce. 

 M. CALZIEL, President. 

 H. S. REYNOLDS, Secy, of Board. 

 C. H. TOMPKINS, Vice President. 

 G. S. LOOMIS, Treasurer. 

 CHAS. E. WHEELER, Secretary. 



The popularity of our State, and the 

 well-being of its inhabitants are greatly 

 dependent upon the maintenance of a 

 reasonable forest cover. 



Tuesday, November 9th, 1909. 



MORNING SESSION. 

 10:00 o'clock 



1. Michigan Forestry Commission The Work Done. 



PROF. FILIBERT ROTH, U. of M 



2. Public Domain Commission The Work Proposed. 



JUNTOS E. BEAL, Ann Arbor. 



3. The Next Step of Progress. 



CHASE S. OSBORNE, Sault Ste. Marie 



4. A Word for the City of Jackson. E. W. BARBER 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 

 8:00 o'clock 



1. President's Annual Address. 



2. Secretary's Annual Statement. 



3. Treasurers Report. 



4. Announcement of Committees. 



u. Growing Forests on Jack Pine Lands. 



DR. W. J. BEAL, M. A. C. 

 6. Arboriculture in Cities: 



(a) Contribution of Trees to Urban Beauty 



MRS. JOHN C. SHARP 



(b) Methods of Control in Case of City Trees. 



J. R. WYLIE, Grand Rapids 



(c) Trees and Sewers. 



(d) Planting and Mending Trees. 



(e) Protecting and Mending Trees. 



EVENING SESSION. 

 8:00 o'clock- 

 Varieties and Arrangement in Planting. PROF. BURNS 

 Illustrated South American Lecture. 



E. M. BRIGHAM, Battle Creek 



Wednesday, November 10th. 



MORNING SESSION. 

 9:30 o'clock 



Election of Officers, Miscellaneous Business. 

 Forestry Training in Schools and Colleges of Our State. 



PROF. WALDO, State Normal School, Kalamazoo 



(a) The Danger in Pasturing Woodlots. DR. W. J. BEAL 



(b) Starting a Woodlot ab Initio. 

 10:00 o'clock 



PROF. J. FRED BARER, M. A. C. 



(c) Growing Fuel and Christmas Trees. 



(d) Belts of Forest Growth on Farms. 



(e) What Proportion of Farm Should Be in Woods, and Why? 



1. Strength and weakness of Our National Forest Policy. 



2. City Forests Abroad and in America. 



PROF. MULFORD, University of Michigan 



3. Growing Forests as an Investment in Michigan. 



