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THE FORESTER. 



September, 



Forest Meet- 

 ings in New 

 Hampshire. 



A course of lectures on 

 forestry, under the au- 

 spices of the Society for 

 the Protection of New 

 Hampshire Forests was given during the 

 week of August ia-24th, at the leading 

 hotels of the White Mountain district with 

 a view of arousing a keener interest in the 

 forests of that State among the many sum- 

 mer visitors. 



The speakers were Dr. John Gifford, of 

 the New York State College of Forestry, 

 and John D. Quackenbos, of New York. 

 Dr. Gifford delivered an illustrated lecture 

 on the " Forest Conditions of New Hamp- 

 shire," while Dr. Quackenbos spoke in- 

 terestingly on the subject of " Standing 

 Forests in Relation to Public Health." 

 These meetings attracted good sized au- 

 diences and aroused considerable interest in 

 the preservation of White Mountain forests. 



Irrigation and One of the most interest- 

 the Forest. ing addresses delivered at 



the Denver meeting of 

 the American Forestry Association was 

 that of Mr. George H. Maxwell, Execu- 

 tive Chairman of the National Irrigation 

 Association. Mr. Maxwell's subject was 

 " Irrigation and the Forest," and as his 

 talk was ex tempore we are only able to 

 give the short extract that follows. 



Mr. Maxwell sounded a note of warn- 

 ing, condemning as " fatally, criminally 

 and wickedly blind " the indifference with 

 which we were watching- the gradual de- 

 struction of our forests. In picturing 

 graphical ly the results of deforestation in 

 the far East, he said : 



" Famine stalks through India because 

 of deforestation, floods devastate China for 

 the same reason. Look at northern Africa, 

 at Persia, at Mesopotamia, at Transcaspia, 



UND THAT HAS BEEN MADE PRODUCTIVE BY IRRIGATION. FRUIT FARM IN 



BITTERROOT VAEEEY, MONTANA. 



