1904 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



Ohio, president; J. L. Shawyer, Belle- 

 fontaine, Ohio, vice-president ; William 

 R. Lazenby, Columbus, Ohio, secretary- 

 treasurer. The new organization seems 

 to have started under favorable au- 

 spices, and it is hoped that it may be- 

 come a power for good. 



Notes from In the display of Great 

 the Exposition. Britain will appear a 

 large model of the As- 

 suau Dam, which is now adding so greatly 

 to the agricultural welfare of the valley 

 of the Nile River. This great achieve- 

 ment of hydraulic engineering was fully 

 described in the December number of 

 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION in 1902. 



The model measures 4 by 1 6 feet and 

 is the property of Sir Benjamin Baker, 

 the engineer of the dam. 



An exhibit will be made under the 

 auspices of the International Society of 

 Arboriculture intended to set forth the 

 good qualities of Catalpa spcdosa. 



The rapid growth of this tree will be 

 shown in one part of the exhibit; in 

 another will be specimens of Catalpa 

 telegraph poles, fence posts, and rail- 

 road ties which have been in use for 

 long periods of time and successfully 

 resisted decay. 



As an illustration of the physical 

 qualities of the wood, a car-building firm 

 of Dayton, Ohio, will exhibit a section 

 of a palace car, all the wooden parts of 

 which, inside and out, are made of 

 Catalpa. Furniture made of Catalpa 

 will also be shown. 



Iowa Park 

 and Forestry 

 Association. 



The Third Annual As- 

 sembly'of the Iowa Park 

 and Forestry Associa- 

 tion occurred at Des 

 Moines, Iowa, December 7 and 8. Five 

 meetings were held, at which a number 

 of instructive papers were read, new offi- 

 cers elected for the ensuing year, and a 

 movement set on foot to bring about the 

 enactment of laws providing for exemp- 

 tion of taxes on woodland. The asso- 

 ciation intends to start a vigorous cam- 

 paign of education. 



The papers reported as read were as 

 follows: Chemistrv in Relation to For- 



estry, Dr. J. B. Weenis; Hardy Herba- 

 ceous Perennial Plants, Mr. Wesley 

 Greene; Lawns and Lawn Making, Mr. 

 C. R. Ball; Ornamental Hedges, Mr, 



E. E. Little; Street Trees, Prof. A. T. 

 Erwin; Our Iowa Birds, Hon. John Bai- 

 ley; Railroad Planting of Parks, Mr. J. 

 Sexton; Tree Planting, Why it Fails, 

 Thos. H. Douglas; Phenology of Our 

 Trees, Charlotte M. King; The System- 

 atic Agitation of Bettering Our School 

 Grounds, Supt. C. R. Scroggie; Some 

 Forestry Conditions in Iowa, Prof. L. H. 

 Pammel; Advancement in American 

 Forestry, Prof. E. E. Faville: The 

 Architect and Landscape Artist, Mr. 

 O. H. Carpenter; Forestry in Our Pub- 

 lic Schools, Hon. Henry Sabin; Tree 

 Planting on Our Northern Prairies, Col. 

 W. A. Burnap; Civic Improvement, Dr. 



F. L. Rogers; Native Shrubs of Iowa, 

 Prof. B. Shimek; Parks for Small Cities 

 and Villages, Mr. Frank H. Nutter, 

 Minneapolis, Minn.; Tree Planting in 

 Northwest Iowa, Prof. B. Shimek; 

 Philip Madison Crapo, a Tribute, Rev. 

 Edwin McMinn; Wind Breaks, Henry 

 Wallace; A Systematic Study of Trees 

 in Our Public Schools, Miss Grace 

 Troutner; President's Address, Prof. 

 T. H. Macbride. 



Officers of the Association for 1904 

 President, Prof. Thos. H. Macbride, 

 Iowa City; vice-president, Mr. Wesley 

 Greene, Davenport; secretary, Prof. 

 L. H. Pammel, Ames; treasurer, Mr. 

 John Bailey, Charles City. 



Executive Board Hon. J. S. Trigg, 

 Rockford; Prof. B. Fink, Grinnell; Mr. 

 Cyrus A. Mosier, Des Moines. 



Committee on Legislation Prof. B. 

 Shimek, Iowa City; Mr. Elmer Reeves, 

 Waverly; Hon. Eugene Secor, Forest 

 City; Mr. C. L. Watrous, Des Moines; 

 Mr. S. A. Foster, Des Moines. 



University Professor Roth and four 



of Michigan of the students at the 

 Forest School. Forest School took ad- 

 vantage of the holiday 

 recess to visit some of the great log- 

 ging works in the Lake States, the 

 managers of which had extended cor- 

 dial invitations to them. 



Two of the men went to the Weyer 



