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Trestle timber, piling and timbers of that kind will have their life increased 

 indefinitely. Another important element in the preservation of timber is in 

 the ability to substitute inferior wood for the more expensive and scarcer 

 woods. For instance, short-leaf pine, if creosoted, is just as good for trestle 

 timber where no great strength is required, as oak timber, and black oak tie 

 is as good as white oak if creosoted. Through our local territory in Pennsyl- 

 vania we have been able to use quite large quantities, both of birch and 

 maple, which have practically no local use except for implements, and to 

 greatly increase our local output and at the same time utilize those trees. 

 Another thing which we are doing is the management of small woodlots on 

 water properties. The forest conditions vary all the way from absolute bar- 

 renness up to very good timber and on some of these properties logging has 

 been carried on under the most intensive practice in the state. In one case 

 on a property of a thousand acres, perhaps six or seven hundred thousand feet 

 of second growth hardwood and a little pine was cut in a way which left it 

 looking better and in better condition and we have been able to net a very 

 nice profit from it. The speaker referred to the sometimes disappointing 

 attitude of the lumbermen in the matter of practicing forestry and said, "We 

 all know why he does not and I do not know that we blame him tor not cut- 

 ting down revenues for the sake of practicing forestry, but I am coming to 

 the conclusion that the big timber consumer is in a position to do something 

 along this line that he can perhaps do better than the lumberman. In the 

 face of constantly increasing prices there is no other method in sight unless 

 they take the matter in their own hands and acquire their own timberlands 

 and manage them on long time for their own use." 



The afternoon session closed at a little before five o'clock. In the evening 

 a number of members of the Association availed themselves of an invitation 

 to attend the meeting of the secretary of American Foresters, which was held 

 as usual at the house of Mr. Gifford Pinchot. 



FRIDAY MORNING 



The first order at the Friday morning session was the annual address of 

 the President of the Association, Hon. Curtis Guild, Jr. This is printed 

 elsewhere. 



A paper was presented by Professor Herman H. Chapman of the Yale 

 Forest School on the subject, ''Shall the State Regulate the Cutting of Tim- 

 ber?" This paper is printed elsewhere in the magazine. 



Commissioner Conklin, of Pennsylvania, had been present during the 

 Thursday session but was called away and Dr. J. T. Rothrock, who is always 

 welcome to the American Forestry Association, spoke for Pennsylvania. He 

 urged the importance of preserving the Appalachian forests as a nursery of 

 men ; called attention to the part which the whole Appalachian region from 

 Maine to Georgia has played in the history of the country, and urged the 

 loss which it would be to the country if the forests were swept away, the soil 

 washed out and this brave people reduced by poverty to the depths of degra- 

 dation until they have reached the very last round and instead of the strong 

 armed and the strong hearted men who have always been the support of the 

 nation in time of trouble, we have a degenerate race. 



Dr. Rothrock spoke of several important phases of the forestry policy of 

 Pennsylvania which now has over 900,000 acres of state forests and has built 

 2,500 miles of road and fire lines. "We have," he said, "an output from our 

 nurseries of about 1,500,000 trees annually and to these may be added from 

 five hundred thousand to another million which are planted, making an ave- 

 rage of two million, five hundred thousand trees planted in the state reser- 



