News and Views of the North Woods 



The Canadian Forestry Association will hold its annual 

 meeting at Winnipeg, July 7 to 10. This is the first regular 

 forestry convention that has been held on the prairies in Can- 

 ada, and it is expected that there will be a large attendance of 

 delegates from both the farming and the lumbering industries, 

 as well as representatives of horticultural and game associa- 

 tions and those who take a general and patriotic interest in 

 forest conservation. 



Not only will the delegates discuss the question of farm- 

 ers wood lots and the possibility of the growing of timber on 

 waste sand lands, but the possibilities of the western timber 

 reserves will be fully debated by experts from both Canada 

 and the United States. State Forester W. T. Cox, of Minne- 

 sota, is on the program for an address. 



It is expected that a number of persons from Minnesota, the 

 Dakotas, Wisconsin and Michigan, will attend the convention. 

 Information regarding the convention may be secured from 

 James Lawler, Canadian Building, Ottawa, Canada. 



The City of Hornell, New York, is establishing a municipal 

 forest. The city's reservoir will be surrounded by 30,000 trees, 

 to be planted under the direction of Professor John W. Stephen 

 of the state college of forestry, located at Syracuse. Hornell 

 is following the example of Syracuse, the latter city having 

 started a city forest last year. Syracuse set aside 150 acres 

 of land to be used for a city forest. A party of students 

 from the forestry school spent the summer there making a 

 careful estimate of the timber and making a forest map of the 

 tract. At Hornell, the trees will be planted by the students in 

 the high school. 



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After several clashes with the state board of immigration, 

 H. J. Maxfield, commissioner, resigned his position. The 



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