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State University, dean of the State Agricultural Department, and three others. 

 In Minnesota the Board of Regents of the University nominate two members, 

 and the State Agricultural and Horticultural Societies also nominate members, 

 while the dean of the Agricultural Department is a member ex-officio. Such 

 boards have the appointment of the State Forester, thus insuring the perma- 

 nence and freedom from politics of the forestry work. Similar wise pro- 

 visions are in force in Maryland, Oregon, and New Jersey. 



The danger to forestry from consolidation would arise in two ways, 

 first, through improper organization of commissions allowing appointments to 

 be made for political reasons, and second, from subordinating the forestry 

 work and placing it in the hands of some minor official with no particular 

 authority or prestige. So much remains to be accomplished before state 

 forestry even begins to fulfil its proper functions and the rate of progress is 

 so slow compared with the need that should there be any real danger of losing 

 ground by such consolidation it had better not be attempted. 



The prediction may be made that the states which show the greatest 

 progress in forestry in the next decade will be those which adhere to a policy 

 of laying emphasis on forestry through the form of their state organizations. 

 The conservation of other forms of public wealth is equally necessary, and may 

 be accomplished at the same time and possibly by the same organization. But 

 while there is a chance that ground may be lost, the advisability of consolida- 

 tion in the interest of economy must be considered cautiously. 



COMMERCIAL REFORESTATION 



CHE commercial possibilities of reforestation conducted upon a scientific 

 and business-like basis are described in an article by Staff Correspondent 

 Tinkham of the Grand Rapids, Mich., Press, following a visit to the 

 forty-year-old second growth forest of David H. Day, near Glen Haven, Mich. 



"The story of David H. Day's forty-year- old idea of making nature replace 

 the timber from which man had carved fortunes and his modern, practical 

 and detailed conception of what the future holds in store for the successful 

 reforester, needs no embellishment," says Mr. Tinkham. "It speaks eloquently 

 enough of the almost wizard-like foresight of the man and is tribute enough 

 to his desire to build such a monument as few men in this world leave behind, 



"But it is not wholly a desire to leave some material indication of his 

 life work that is prompting Da^id H. Day in pressing forward with his scheme 

 of reforestation. He has it figured to a year, almost to a day and to the 

 foot of timber what his new forest will net. He knows what the various 

 timbers will be used for. He knows and has detailed plans for the utilization 

 of this fortune nature is creating for his children and his children's children. 

 And suffice to say that his plan encompasses what twenty years from now 



