1902. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



51 



mends the construction 

 of great storage works 

 to equalize the flow of 

 streams and to save the 

 flood-waters, in order to 

 irrigate and make pro- 

 ductive vast areasof the 

 vacant arid public lands 

 of the West; be it 



Resolved, i . That this 

 work in its larger feat- 

 ures is a national and 

 not a local or state func- 

 tion, inasmuch as the 

 land to be irrigated now 

 belongs to the nation 

 and the proposed under- 

 taking involves inter- 

 state relations properly 

 subject to control b3'the 

 nation, since the great 

 rivers of the arid re- 

 gions flow through 

 many states, the main- 

 line irrigation canals 

 will supph' water to 

 lands lying in different 

 states, and the water 

 flow concerns interests 

 which extend to the 

 mouths of the rivers in the Pacific and 

 Gulf states. 



2. That all of the public domain to be 

 irrigated should be reserved for actual 

 settlers of quarter sections or less under 

 the Homestead Act, the sole principle in 

 obtaining title to be occupancy and use. 



3. That we are unalterabl}- opposed 

 to the cession, bj" sale or otherwise, of 

 such lands to corporations or speculators 

 or to the several state governments, and 

 equally to the donation of the proceeds 

 to the states, ever}^ such course having 

 heretofore resulted in sales to monopo- 

 lists, with consequent grave injuries to 

 the rights of actual settlers and pro- 

 ducers. 



THE WESTERN DESERTS AS THEY ARE 



TRANSFORMED. 



From the Brooklyn Eagle. 

 AND AS THEY CAN BE 



of silviculture as practiced in the pine, 

 spruce, beech, oak, and coppice forests 

 will first be studied. The \"ogelsberg, 

 the Spessart, the Black Forest, the Ba- 

 varian Movmtains, and the Tyrol will 

 then be traversed, the tour ending with 

 a trip through Hungaria and Roumania. 

 Altogether this tour will be an excel- 

 lent opportunity for the American for- 

 ester to learn something of European 

 methods. The cost will be compara- 

 tively low and the time consumed in 

 making the trip will be short. Persons 

 interested in the tour will do well to 

 communicate with Dr. C. A. Schenck, 

 director of the .school, who writes that 

 he will be glad to include in his party 

 anyone wishing to make the tour. 



Tour througfh A tour through the 

 European Forests. European forests is 

 announced b}' the 

 Biltraore Forest School, to begin April 

 10 and to end July 8. 



The tour will begin with an excursion 

 through the German forests. The types 



Forests and 

 Snow. 



' ' Forests and Snow ' ' 

 is the title of an inter- 

 esting bulletin prepared 

 by Prof. L. G. Carpenter and issued 

 by the Colorado Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station at Fort Collins, Colo. It 



