Genesee Valley Forestry Association. 



A very significant movement in 

 different parts of the United States 

 is the formation of active local fores- 

 try associations which work in har- 

 mony with the state and federal or- 

 ganizations, both governmental and 

 private. One of the latest and most 

 promising of these is the Genesee 

 Valley Forestry Association with 

 headquarters at Rochester, N.Y. This 

 was formed on Feb. 15. The officers 

 are : President, Wm. F. Dunbar ; Vice- 

 President, Joseph W. Hauser; Secre- 

 tary, John Dennis, Jr. ; Treasurer, 

 Norman C. Schlegel. As this subject 

 is of great interest to the members 

 of the Canadian Forestry Association 

 the Secretary, Mr. Dennis, has been 

 asked and has kindly consented to 

 write an article for the Canadian For- 

 estry Journal describing the work of 

 this Association and its relation to the 

 New York State Forestry Association. 

 The following is from the Rochester 

 Democrat and Chronicle with the edi- 

 torial staff of which Mr. Dennis is 

 connected : 



Eochester's interest in scientific and prac- 

 tical forestry was again demonstrated on 

 Saturday by the formation of the Genesee 

 Valley Forestry Association, an organization 

 which plans to extend its influence through- 

 out the entire valley of the Genesee from 

 Lake Ontario on the north to the summit 

 of the Alleganies on the south, where the 

 Genesee river originates in mountain rivu- 

 lets. It is understood that for scientific 

 and educational purposes chapters of the 

 association will be formed throughout the 

 valley, whereever interest can be aroused, 

 and that the association proper will act af- 

 ter the manner of a clearing house of de- 

 sirable knowledge regarding theoretical and 

 practical forest and park practice. It is 

 very appropriate that Rochester should be 

 the home of an association of this kind. 

 Each one of the great parks of the city em- 

 braces notable examples of the best practice 

 in modern constructive forestry. In plant- 

 ing the original park forest the advice and 

 counsel of the most famous arboriculturists 

 in this and other countries has been drawn 

 upon, and this knowledge is available by 

 way of object lessons and historical re- 

 cord. 



It is also understood that the Genesee 

 Valley Forestry Association, as a part of 

 its first practical work, will secure sample 

 woods from the portion of the Genot^ee 

 Valley Park forest, which is about to be 

 sacrificed to make way for the Barge canal. 

 Something over 400 choice forest and shade 

 trees, planted twenty-thre years ago, will 

 of necessity be destroyed. Sample trees 

 of each species cut from the canal zone 

 will be utilized for educational cabinets, to 

 be at the service of the different chapters 

 throughout the valley. 



SWEET AND SLOW. 



J. E. Middleton in Toronto News. 



Sweet and slow, 

 Sweet and slow 

 Sap from the maple tree-ee. 

 Now flow, 

 Prithee, show. 

 Kindly to Bards like me-ee. 



Into the bucket consistently flow, 

 While the spring sun is a-melting the 

 snow 

 Into a little sea-ee. 



As through my shoes the watery ooze 

 Seeps. 



Stoneboat slow, 

 Stoneboat slow. 

 Call at the maple tree-ee. 

 Gently, Flo, 

 Haw! Whoa! 

 Gather the sap for me-ee. 



Into the butt pour the watery bliss, 

 Leaves and small twigs are expected, I 

 wis. 

 Now let the old mare Gtee-ee 

 Through the swale, where about half a pail 

 out- 

 Leaps. 



Sweet and low. 

 Night winds blow, 

 Blow through the maple tree-ee. 

 Coals glow. 

 Pots hang low 

 Boiling the stuff for me-ee. 



Give us a taste of the nectar divine. 

 Better than sherry or Burgundy wine. 

 Beautiful stuff to see-ee. 

 Yellow and sweet, we just think we coul 1 

 eat 

 Heaps. 



The first pulp was made in the new pulp 

 mills at Dryden, Ont., on March 19. A 

 number of those interested in the works 

 were present on the occasion. 



38 



