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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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of the coast from Charleston to Boston. 

 Most of the incorporators are Eastern 

 capitalists. The minimum capital, one 

 million dollars, may be increased to 

 twenty millions. 



The increasing need of forest conser- 

 vation is emphasized by a recent dispatch 

 from Memphis, Tenn., to a leading trade 

 journal, saying: "The only trouble is 

 the shortage of timber, which continues, 

 and is likely to become an aggravated 

 evil, instead of diminishing." The wood- 

 man's axe is a powerful educator, but the 

 trouble lies in the fact that the knowledge 

 is usually acquired when it is too late to 

 take advantage of it. 



Bohemia Village, N. Y., during the mid- 

 dle of April. After burning all day, the 

 flames swept toward the village at night, 

 endangering many houses on the out- 

 skirts of the place. By great vigilance 

 and energetic work the flames were kept 

 back, women and children joining the 

 men in fighting the fire. 



In Nebraska the evergreen trees, es- 

 pecially exotic conifers, like the Siberian, 

 Japanese and Chinese Arborvitse, have 

 been very generally injured, and in many 

 cases killed, by the severity of the past 

 Winter. White Pines, Scotch Pines, 

 and other varieties, which went into the 

 Winter with their roots very dry, have 

 suffered in some counties where old and 

 mature trees, as well as young trees, have 

 been killed. The question is now being 

 asked there why the past Winter caused 

 this great loss, when the trees had es- 

 caped it in all the previous severe 

 seasons. 



Forest Fires. 



Destructive forest fires were reported 

 as raging about Canaan and Averil!, Vt. , 

 during the middle of May. A wide ter- 

 ritory was burned over and thousands of 

 cords of wood were destroyed. The loss 

 amounts to some thousands of dollars. 

 A large crowd of men were engaged for 

 several days in fighting the fires both day 

 and night. 



A disastrous timber fire occurred on 

 April 18 between Pestletown and Water- 

 ford, N. Y. A thousand acres of trees 

 were burned through a brush-pile fire 

 started on a farm. 



During the latter part of May a big 

 forest fire was reported near Port Re- 

 public, N. J. It had its origin in a small 

 fire kindled to consume a mass of rub- 

 bish, but finally spread beyond control 

 and burned over a large area. Fortu- 

 nately the fire burned away from the 

 village and did no damage to houses 

 there. 



Educational. 



The Franklin Forestry Society was or- 

 ganized on Arbor Day, April 22, at 

 Chambersburg, Pa , to create a more gen- 

 eral interest in the subject of forestry in 

 that immediate neighborhood. The offi- 

 cers for the current year are : President, 

 Alvin B. Kuhn; Secretary, W. G. Bow- 

 ers; Treasurer, E. H. Keefer. Much in- 

 terest has been manifested in the work 

 already undertaken. 



The subject of tree planting will be 

 prominently considered at the Summer 

 meeting of the Missouri State Horticul- 

 tural Society, at Peirce City, Mo., June 

 6, 7 and 8. The meeting will be held 

 under the direction of the South West 

 Fruit Growers' Co-operative Union, and 

 special arrangements have been made for 

 accommodating visitors from a distance. 

 Among the papers to be read are : "De- 

 ciduous Trees for Street and Lawn," J. 

 M. Irvine, St. Joseph, Mo.; "Ornamen- 

 tal Planting" (with stereopticon views), 

 Prof. J. C. Whitten, Columbia, Mo.; 

 "The Business of Planting Orchards," 

 J. E. Thompson, Windsor, Mo. 



One of the largest forest fires ever ex- 

 perienced in that section started near 



The Michigan Hemlock Association 

 has been formed at Saginaw, Mich., to 

 better the conditions of that trade, and 

 secure uniformity of grading, etc. 



