BOYS' REFORESTATION CLUBS 



499 



trees are left on each acre for reforestation and the land 

 is assessed at $2 an acre, the stumpage value of the seed 

 trees at the end of a 15 year period, at $5 per thousand 

 feet, will return 5 per cent compound interest on the $2 

 investment, and will pay back an annual expense of ten 

 cents an acre with compound interest on each year's cost. 

 Meantime the land has been brought to a vigorous young 

 stand, leaving a period of twenty years before maturity. 



In these twenty years there should be a regular revenue 

 through the collection of firewood in thinning out the 

 growth, dependent on the thickness of the growth of 

 the young trees. There are instances were loblolly has 

 cut 10,000 feet per acre after a growth of twenty years. 

 If the present price of lumber is maintained (and the in- 

 dications are that it will be increased), this would give a 

 return of about $100 an acre in stumpage. 



THE GEORGIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



(Continued from Paye 476) 



ever, failed to provide appropriations for the work and 

 while the committee was therefore not able to make as 

 exhaustive an investigation as the situation justifies, it 

 has submitted a report recommending specifically the 

 establishment of a permanent state forestry department. 

 The Georgia Forestry Association is actively support- 

 ing the recommendation of the board and has organized 

 the state in a very effective way. The officers of the new 

 association are Bonnell H. Stone, president; A. B. Wood, 

 of Brunswick, first vice-president ; Mrs. W. W. Stark, of 

 Commerce, second vice-president; Senator E. E. Snow, 

 of Quitman, third vice-president; W. B. Lemon, of At- 

 lanta, secretary, and C. B. Harman, of Atlanta, treasurer. 

 An executive committee was immediately appointed by 

 President Stone as follows : H. G. Spahr, of the Georgia 

 State Highway Commission; C. B. Harman, secretary 

 of the Southern Sash, Door and Millwork Association ; 

 C. S. Ucker, of the Southern Seaboard Airline Railway ; 

 Miss Alice Baxter, chairman of the Committee on Natu- 



ral Resources of the State Federation of Woman's Clubs ; 

 W. B. Lemon, of the Western Electric Company, and 

 Senator Robert C. Ellis, of Tifton. 



An advisory board was later appointed and comprises 

 the following: H. C. Fowler, Mrs. Orville A. Park and 

 R. C. Berckmans, of Macon; G. C. Smith, Brunswick; 

 Prof. T. D. Burleigh, of Athens ; W. B. Hunter, of Cor- 

 nelia ; Miss Lois P. Bowdle, of Athens; W. H. Beck- 

 man, of Albany ; Homer Williams, of Albany ; W. L. 

 Roebuck, of Cordele; Miss Etta Colcough, of Augusta; 

 Mrs. Max E. Land, of Cordele; Mrs. Albert E. Horton, 

 of Atlanta ; Mrs. Lollie Belle Wylie, of Atlanta ; William 

 A. Candler, of Atlanta ; Alex Sessions, Waycross ; Sena- 

 tor E. M. Tharpe, of Townsend; John Riis, of Milledge- 

 ville; Max Jasspon, of Savannah; James W. Morton, of 

 Athens ; Mrs. C. R. Orr, of Athens ; Mrs. Ira C. Farmer, 

 of Thomson; Mrs. J. E. Hays, of Montezuma; Morton 

 Turner, of Quitman; Mrs. M. E. Judd, of Dalton, and 

 Major John Cohen, of Atlanta. 



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NATURE PAINTED THIS .SCENE ON A CYPRESS BOARD 



In the lumber yard of the National Lumber Company, in St. Lojis an interesting piece of Nature's etching was recently found. 

 The board which has the woodland scene on its surface was found in a pile of lumber while orders were being filled and 

 had been at various heights in the pile for at least two years. The board has every appearance of an etching and shows 

 a typical cut-over forest scene so characteristic of many parts of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas. The natural 

 color of the wood with a slight discoloration gives a hint of twilight hours to add to the effectiveness of the scene. 

 (Allan P. C hild) 



(Note: This Board was found in the yard of the National Lumber Company, Jefferson and Lucas avenues, St, Louis, Missouri.) 



