THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



MEETING. 



THE SUMMER SESSION AT MINNEAPOLIS WAS 

 ONE OF THE BEST ATTENDED AND MOST 

 INTERESTING HELD BY THE ASSOCIATION. 



THE American Forestry Associa- the several sessions was large and thor- 

 tion met at Minneapolis August oughly representative. A number of the 

 25-26, and devoted a large part of its leading lumbermen of the State were 

 sessions to the consideration of forest present and took part in the discussions, 

 problems which directly affected the There was a noticeably large attendance 

 State of Minnesota. Many of the of ladies, many of them members of the 

 papers provoked warm discussion, and Federation of Women's Clubs, who took 

 altogether much of value was elicited such an active part in the agitation for 

 from the points of view of the various in- a national forest reserve in Minnesota, 

 terests represented. The attendance at Gen. C. C. Andrews, State Fire 



Warden, made the ad- 

 dress of welcome. Im- 

 mediately following that 

 came a spirited discussion 

 over the points brought 

 out by a paper on ' ' The 

 Effect of the Chippewa 

 Forest Reserve on the 

 Locality, ' ' by Herman H. 

 Chapman, superintendent 

 of the University of Min- 

 nesota Experiment Farm 

 at Grand Rapids, in which 

 he stated that lands which 

 grew Jack Pine and Nor- 

 way Pine were generally 

 unfit for agriculture, be- 

 ing too sandy and requir- 

 ing too much artificial 

 fertilizing to make them 

 paying farm properties. 

 This discussion was par- 

 ticipated in by A. G. Ber- 

 nard, of Cass Lake ; Prof. 

 Filibert Roth, head of the 

 school of forestry of the 

 University of Michigan, 

 and by R. L. McCormick, 

 president of the Missis- 

 sippi Valley Lumbermen's 

 Association, which organ- 

 ization met in Minneap- 

 olis at the time of the 

 American Forestry Asso- 



HON. JAMES WII.SON, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND HHori's rnnvPlllimi 

 PRESIDENT OK THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. TT> j=> <-unv -iiLH .1 



HIS ADDRESS \\ AS A NOTABLE FEATURE OF THE MINNE- " " DoUglaS, Attor- 



APOLIS MEETING. ney General of Minne- 



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