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April 8 Liberty Grove Grange, Burtonsville. 



April 9 Brighton Grange, Brighton. 



April 10 Men's Club, Central Presbyterian Church, Baltimore. 



April 10 Agricultural High School, Sandy Spring. 



April 14 Grange at Silver Run. 



April 15 Grange at Taneytown. 



April 16 Grange at Medford. 



April 17 Blue Ridge College, New Windsor. 



April 18 Westminster High School, Westminster. 



April 23 St. Michael's Grange, St. Michael's. 



April 24 Stockton High School, Stockton. 



April 25 Willards Grange, Willards. 



May 1 Mt. Airy High School, Mt. Airy. 



May 2 Male High School, Frederick. 



May 3 Frederick County Farmers' Association, Frederick. 



May 3 Woman's College, Frederick. 



May 3 Farmers' Club of Goshen, Laytonsville. 



May 6 Men's Bible Class, Berwyn. 



May 14 Leonard Hall, Leonardtown. 



May 15 Charlotte Hall School, Charlotte Hall. 



May 16 Grange, Gray ton. 



May 24 Grange, Hampstead. 



August 12 Farmers' Picnic, Taneytown. 



November 11 Beltsville Grange, Beltsville. 



Forest Fire Protection. 



In Maryland, as in nearly all of the States where organized forest 

 work is being done, the fire protection problem is of the first impor- 

 tance. It has been clearly demonstrated that where the woodlands 

 are free from fires there is no difficulty in securing good reproduction 

 and satisfactory growth conditions. Where fires occur it is just the 

 opposite. The loss from forest fires is more than twice the amount 

 annually reported when all of the factors of fire damage are consid- 

 ered, including the merchantable timber destroyed, the young growth 

 killed or seriously damaged, and the destruction of the forest humus, 

 rendering the woodlands so affected incapable of producing more than 

 one-half of a full yield. 



The past two years have been average ones so far as forest fires 

 are concerned, but, while the number of fires has been almost double 

 that reported for the two previous years, the amount of damage has 



