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sota, presented a paper on 

 "State Parks and Their 

 Relation to Forestry , ' ' with 

 special reference to the 

 work which had been done 

 toward reforesting the It- 

 asca State Park, of which 

 he is the custodian. Dr. 

 C. A. Schenck, forester for 

 the Vanderbilt estate at 

 Biltmore, N. C., and di- 

 rector of the Biltmore For- 

 est School, presented a 

 paper on ' ' Financial Re- 

 sults at Biltmore," inter- 

 esting in its setting forth 

 of the possibilities of pri- 

 vate forestry. 



The afternoon session of 

 Tuesday, the 25th, began 

 with an address on the 

 4 ' Progress of Forestry in 

 Michigan," by Edwin A. 

 Wildey, member of the 

 Michigan Forestry Com- 

 mission; this was followed 

 by a paper on ' ' Forestry 

 Courses in Agricultural 

 Colleges," by Prof. S. B. 

 Green, head of the de- 

 partment of horticulture and forestry 

 at the University of Minnesota. Prof. 

 Ernest L. Bruncken, in charge of 

 courses on Forest Law and Forest Eco- 

 nomics at the Biltmore Forest School, 

 and formerly a member of the Wisconsin 

 Forestry Commission, read a paper on 

 ' ' Taxation ; Its Effect on Private For- 

 estry," in which he advocated some 

 needed reforms. 



On Tuesday evening, August 25, the 

 delegates were given a reception at the 

 Commercial Club, among those present 

 being Governor Van Sant and President 



THE BACKWARD BOY : I'VE NEVER HAD MUCH USE FOR 

 SCHOOLMARMS BEFORE, BUT PERHAPS I SHALL LEARN 

 SOMETHING FROM YOU. ST. PAUL "PIONEER PRESS." 



reservation authorized under the Morris 

 act, and gave a detailed history and 

 description of the reserve. He said that 

 the 5 per cent of merchantable timber 

 to be left on the land was too low a 

 limit, and that 25 per cent would give 

 better results. The paper had a great 

 deal of interest and value, especially to 

 those who were directly interested in 

 lumbering the tract under government 

 contracts. Secretary Wilson attended 

 the session, but declined to preside on 

 the plea that he had come to learn, 

 rather than to direct things. Several 



Northrop, of the University of Minne- miscellaneous matters came up at this 

 sota. time, including an invitation from Chat- 



The Wednesday morning session was tanooga to hold the next meeting there 



in order to stimulate the movement for 

 a national Southern Appalachian forest 

 reserve. B. A. Fowler, of Phoenix, 

 Ariz., was appointed a delegate to the 

 National Irrigation Congress to be held 

 at Ogden, Utah, in September. Follow- 

 ing this there was a general discussion on 



more largely attended than the others 

 on account of the interest which at- 

 tached to the paper by Eugene S. Bruce, 

 lumberman of the Bureau of Forestry, 

 on the ' ' Work and Policy of the Bureau 

 of Forestry on the Minnesota National 

 Forest Reserve." In this address he 



told of the difficulties the government the points brought out by Professor 

 had encountered in making the forest Bruncken's paper of the day before, and 



