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AMERICAN FORESTRY 





Photograph by Fred A. Shutz 



PLANTING MEMORIAL OAK AT 



By Mrs. Lydia Adams- Williams, State Chairman of Conservation 



TO perpetuate patriotism, and as a mark of venera- 

 tion for the Father of his country, the Forestry sub- 

 department of the Conservation department of the 

 District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs, re- 

 cently planted a red oak sapling near the tomb of George 

 Washington at Mount Vernon. The ceremonies were in 

 charge of Mrs. Addie W. Foster, chairman of forestry, 

 who was assisted by Dr. Margaret Huddleson, vice- chair- 

 man, to whose efforts the success of many of the prelim- 

 inary arrangements is due. 



Harrison Dodge, superintendent of the Mount Vernon 

 estate, in a congratulatory address, received the tree on 

 behalf of the board of regents. Representatives of the 

 following-named clubs, societies , and organizations were 

 present, and each representative threw in a shovelfuil of 



earth: the District of Columbia Federation of Women's 

 Clubs, the Daughters of the American Revolution, Legion 

 of Loyal Women, Women's Relief Corps, Ladies of the 

 Grand Army of the Republic, New England Society, Sons 

 of the American Revolution, League of American Pen- 

 Women, Woman's National Press Association, Order of 

 Rebeccas, P. E. 0., National Woman Suffrage Associa- 

 tion, American Forestry Association, Grand Army of 

 the Republic, Abacadabra, General Federation of Women's 

 Clubs, Excelsior Literary Clubs, Capitol Hill History Club, 

 Columbia Heights Art Club, Philo-Classics and several 

 others. 



"The oak tree is truly representative of Washington," 

 said Mrs. Wm. E. Andrews, past president of the federa- 

 tion; "he was as strong as an oak and was never worried 



A PIONEER PINE PLANTER 



ST. KELSEY, thirty-third degree forester and one of 

 # the pioneer white pine planters of the country, was 

 at the annual meeting of the American Forestry As- 

 sociation in Washington. He has attended a lot of these 

 meetings and has been talking white pine since 1856 when 

 he brought down thousands of the seedlings from Canada 

 and planted them in Illinois. 



Kelsey, whose home is now in Baltimore, went to 

 Kansas in 1865 and there talked of the virtues of white 

 pine but they were having some exciting times in those 

 days in Kansas and Kelsey had a hard time getting people 

 interested in either white pine or forestry. At last, how- 

 ever, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F6 Railroad decided 

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that a few trees here and there would make things look 

 more like home to the settlers and the road put Kelsey 

 to work. He, therefore, became the first forester employed 

 by a railroad. He planted trees all along the Santa F6 

 for four years but as Kelsey says; "the people did not 

 take much interest when corn was eight cents a bushel 

 and they got more out of it by using it for fuel than 

 sending it to market. " 



Kelsey tried for years to organize a forestry association 

 but could not get more than a score of men interested at 

 any one time. Now however things have changed and 

 Kelsey rarely misses an annual meeting and at every one 

 of them he is warmly congratulated. 



