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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



A Trade 



Mutual Insurance 



Company 



WORKMEN'S 



COMPENSATION 



PUBLIC LIABILITY 



AUTOMOBILE 



TEAMS 



DIVIDEND RATE 20% 



We write Workmen's 

 Compensation Insur- 

 ance on lumber and 

 woodworking and kin- 

 dred risks. : : 



We insure automo- 

 biles and teams, and 

 have been paying 



2 0% DIVIDENDS = 



OUR PLAN WILL 



REDUCE YOUR 



INSURANCE 



COST 



We Paid Back 20% On 



Every Policy that Expired 



In 1919 



Lumber Mutual 



Casualty Insurance 



Company 



66 Broadway 

 New York City 



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Philadelphia, Richmond, Rochester, 



Buffalo, Troy, Saranac Lake, 



Fort Plain. 



Craig-Becker 

 Company, Inc. 



52 Vanderbilt Avenue 

 New York City 



Bleached, Easy Bleaching, 



Unbleached Sulphites, 



Spruce and Poplar 



Ground Wood Pulp 



DOMESTIC EXPORT 



Piling Timber R. R. Ties 



Oak Yellow Pine 

 S. B. BOWERS COMPANY 



112 South Sixteenth Street 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Established 1905 



STERLING LUMBER CO. 



GULF RED CYPRESS 



Long Leaf Yellow Pine, West Coast 



Products. Write Us. 



Finance Building, Philadelphia 



Arms Hotel at Tintern, overlooking the 

 ruins of the famous Abbey of that name 

 and the beautiful valley of the Wye River. 



On Monday, July 12, the delegates met 

 in the morning to elect a president and to 

 decide on the procedure and form of an 

 address to the King. After that there was 

 a general discussion of the responsibility 

 of the States for forest policy and it 

 seemed to be the general opinion that as 

 forestry was a long time business, that 

 the State was certainly responsible for the 

 management of forest lands owned by it 

 and there was also the opinion that a cer- 

 tain amount of supervision over private 

 forest holdings was the duty of the State. 



In the afternoon a description and dis- 

 cussion of the Forestry Departments of 

 all the various countries represented was 

 held and much interesting information on 

 these points was secured. 



On the 13th, methods and problems of 

 technical forestry ware discussed, includ- 

 ing fire protection, reforestation, utiliza- 

 tion and so forth. 



In the afternoon the subjects of educa- 

 tion and research were talked over, and it 

 was the concensus of opinion that for 

 England, at least, it would be better to have 

 only one forest school, rather than the 

 three which exist at present. It was also 

 decided that a central Forestry Bureau 

 for the exchange of information to be a 

 sort of clearing-house for all sorts of 

 forestry matters should be set up in Lon- 

 don and also that some Central Bureau of 

 Research which did not trench on any df 

 the work being done by similar organiza- 

 tions should also be established. 



On the 14th of July, the resources of 

 the British Empire and the consumption 

 of forest products were also discussed to- 

 gether with the scope for Imperial devel- 

 opment. As different parts of the Empire 

 have different kinds of timber and differ- 



