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FORESTKR. 



A MONTHLY MAGAZINE 



DEVOTED TO ARBORICULTURE AND FORESTRY, THE CARE AND USE OF FORESTS 



AND FOREST TREES, AND RELATED SUBJECTS. 



THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF 



The American Horestry Association, 



President, Hon. JAMES WILSON, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



THE FORESTER assumes no responsibility for views expressed by contributors in signed com- 

 munications. 



The subscription price of THE FORESTER is One Dollar a year, single copies ten cents. 



All checks and drafts should be made payable to THE FORESTER, and all communications ad- 

 dressed to the office of publication, 



107 Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C. 



THE FORESTER is on sale at all news stands in the principal cities. If your newsman does not 

 have it, he will secure it upon request. 



JOHN KEIM STAUFFER, EDITOR. 



THE FORESTER takes pleasure in announcing this month a partial response to the offer men- 

 tioned in the last issue, for extending the work of The American Forestry Association. The mag- 

 azine had hardly been sent through the mails before the first response was received, enclosing 

 cheque for one hundred dollars. The generous giver declared his belief in the value of forest lands 

 as an investment, if properly handled, and a source of certain and continuous returns. Other aids 

 also have come to the Association during the past month in the shape of several new life members 

 and a considerable number of new annual members. 



Evidences of this new appreciation of forestry are evident quite particularly in the daily press 

 throughout the country. Newspapers from ocean to ocean give to forestry larger space and more 

 prominent position in their columns than ever before and any newspaper-maker will not hesitate 

 to declare that the daily paper prints what the people want. 



With the newspaper as the mirror of public sentiment, and the progressive element of different 

 localities brought together for active cooperation, the advance which forestry can make will be un- 

 doubted ; how much it will advance depends entirely upon the energy which its friends will give 

 to the " campaign of education." 



" Once interested is always interested," is applicable always to forestry. Tell a friend of a few 

 of the things you read in THE FORESTER, and the response will invariably be '' I had no idea this 

 forestry was a matter of such importance." It is as the discovery of a new world of interest. The 

 "enthusiasm of conviction " is a powerful argument, and one which THE FORESTER asks its read- 

 ers to evince in behalf of forestry and THE FORESTER. 



In each issue for a number of months past there has been printed opposite the last reading 

 page a form of application for membership in The American Forestry Association. Every reader 

 of THE FORESTER, therefore, has received perhaps a half dozen of these mute appeals for advanc- 

 ing the cause. Won't you make them live exponents of forestry by having them signed and sent 

 in by prospective new members? 



" He gives twice who gives quickly " is equally applicable in the case of those whose influence 

 is given unreservedly in favor of forestry those who realize, as President Hadley of Yale has said : 

 " We need it for the sake of the rainfall of the country, for the health of the country, for the future 

 life of the country." 



Will The American Forestry Association have further evidence of your interest in the work by 

 the return of these application blanks, duly signed? 



