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titude of Senator Burton of Ohio, and 

 Mr. Ayres expressed himself somewhat 

 pessimistically in regard to the pros- 

 pect of the passage of the bill by the 

 present Congress. 



Addresses bv the 1 Ion. Frank 1). Cur- 



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Her of New Hampshire and the Hon. 

 A. f. Peters of Massachusetts dealt in 

 detail with the same subject. Mr. Cur- 

 rier showed himself as graphic a nar- 

 rator as he is a skilled parliamentarian, 

 and his story of the strenuous fight for 

 the Weeks bill in the House held the 

 close attention of an interested audience 

 and put his hearers in possession of all 

 the essential facts. He was confident 

 that the bill would pass the Senate in 

 February, if not at an earlier date. Ed- 

 win A. Start, secretary of the American 

 Forestry Association, who was called 

 upon later, suggested the danger of tin- 

 bill being thrown into -conference by 

 Senate amendments, and Mr. Currier, 

 replying to a question by Mr. Start, ex- 

 pressed his belief, unqualifiedly, that the 

 friends of the measure in the Senate 

 would vote down all amendments and 

 pass the bill as it came from the House. 



Ex-Governor Jordan and ex-Senator 

 Chandler were among other speakers at 

 this session. Mr. Jordan brought out 

 the interesting fact that John \V. \Yeeks. 

 the grandfather of Representative John 

 W. Weeks of Massachusetts, the author 

 of the Weeks bill, who represented New 

 Hampshire in the national House of 

 Representatives, assisted, ninety years 

 ago, in naming the peaks of the Presi- 

 dential range. The ex-governor advo- 

 cated more care by the state of its own 

 forest lands and less dependence upon 

 national action. Mr. Start emphasized 

 this plea and pointed out the need of 

 the development of American forestry 

 through national, municipal, state, and 

 private action, so correlated and com- 

 bined as to secure the complete utiliza- 

 tion of our forest lands for the fullest 

 continuous production, the national for- 

 ests forming the nucleus, to be com- 

 pleted and rounded out by the state, the 

 municipality, and the private owner. 



There was an interesting discussion 

 of forest taxation, led by Allen Hollis, 



secretary of the society, who has given 

 this subject much attention. D. M. 

 Rogers, who has charge of the gypsy 

 and brown-tail moth work for the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, gave 

 a talk on the invasion of the state by 

 these pests, which aroused much inter- 

 est, as was shown by the rapid fire of 

 questions to which Mr. Rogers was sub- 

 jected. He held out no hope of entire 

 freedom from this danger, and said 

 most emphatically that the state must 

 adopt a more energetic and liberal pol- 

 icy. He said that conditions as to gyp- 

 sies are bad in the eastern part of the 

 state and threaten to be worse in other 

 parts. The state cannot appropriate 

 enough money to solve the problem. So 

 far as possible, each town should hire a 

 competent man to superintend the work 

 of control. In the last analysis, it is 

 ii]) to the property owner. Above all, 

 this state needs a man to head the fight 

 who knows the gypsy from A to Z. and 

 who can instruct town officers and prop- 

 erty owners. He considered the moun- 

 tainous northern section of the state as 

 beyond the range of the moths, although 

 he did not regard this as conclusively 

 proved. 



Wednesday evening, Austin F. Hawes, 

 .^tate forester of Vermont, gave a sound 

 and suggestive paper on state and town 

 forests. This paper will appear later in 

 AMKKICA.V FORESTRY. 



The society reelected its officers, all 

 of whom have done efficient and devoted 

 service : President, Frank W. Rollins : 

 secretary, Allen Hollis ; treasurer, George 

 T. Cruft ; county vice-presidents, James 



A. Tufts. William D. Gibbs. the Rev. 

 Daniel Merriman, Charles E. Tilton. 

 William P. Fiske. Isaac Huse. A. T. 

 Childs. Frank H. Foster. Laurence J. 

 Webster, W. C. R. Hale ; vice-presidents 

 at large, Herbert Myrick, Henry S. 

 Graves, John D. Quackenbos, Allen 

 Chamberlain, Henry James, Jr., Orton 



B. Brown, Frank G. Webster. E. Ber- 

 tram Pike, John S. Runnells, George H. 

 Maxwell ; executive committee, Frank 

 W. Rollins, Allen Hollis, George T. 

 Cruft. Robert P. Bass, Montgomery 



