44 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION January 



due and chargeable against the land system at their own expense, and the 



as in the case of an ordinary mort- policy of the Reclamation Service is 



gage when default is made on a part to put into their hands an increasingly 



payment. This is not necessary un- greater share of the management, in 



der the conditions of a reclamation order to gradually educate them up to 



project, because the land itself is of t h e po j nt o f controlling in the proper 



such great value that there is no dif- manner an enterprise of such great 



ficulty in obtaining settlers to take nitude The law prov ides that 



up the land which an individual is the & ownership of the system and a 



compelled to relinquish supervisory control shall always be 



The who e theory of the water us- ma P intaine( f b the United Sta / in 



ers association is to provide for self- J . . 



government among those who use the this manner affording ample assur- 



water and pay for the irrigation sys- ance to each individual that the rights 



tern. The law provides that they shall which he has acquired from the United 



ultimately manage and maintain the States shall always be fully protected. 



IOWA PARK AND FORESTRY 

 ASSOCIATION 



The Fourth Annual Meeting Successful 

 and Shows Much Interest in the State 



"T 1 HE fourth annual meeting of the ted and suggesting the best methods to 

 Iowa Park and Forestry Associ- follow. "Forestry in Northwestern 

 ation was the most successful that this Iowa" was ably discussed by Ellison 

 organization has yet held. The fol- Orr, of Waukon. 

 lowing officers were elected for 1905 : Prof. T. H. Macbride made a plea 

 President, L. H. Pammel, of Ames ; for the preservation of the old historic 

 vice-president, Wesley Greene, of Dav- landmarks like Camp McClellan and 

 enport ; secretary, Prof. Thomas H. other historic spots in Iowa that are 

 Macbride, of Iowa City ; treasurer, J. dear to the memory of the pioneers. 

 C. Monnett, of Iowa City ; executive The secretary of the association, 

 committee, J. S.Trigg, of Des Moines ; Prof. L. H. Pammel, reported on what 

 H. P. Baker, of Ames, and C. A. the college has done in planting, both 

 Mosier, of Des Moines; legislative for park and forestry purposes, dur- 

 committee, C. L. Watrous, of Des ing the last thirty years, giving a list 

 Moines ; B. Shimek, of Iowa City ; Sid- of the hardy trees like the white pine, 

 ney Foster, of Des Moines ; Bruce white spruce, red elm, Austrian pine, 

 Fink, of Grinnell, and Elmer Reeves, elm, Norway spruce, hemlock, hard 

 of Waverly ; committee on ways and maple, soft maple, red cedar, and cot- 

 means, Wesley Greene, W. A. Burnap, tonwood, giving accounts of their 

 of Clear Lake ; Eugene Secor, of For- hardiness and adaptibility to different 

 est City ; committee on civic improve- conditions. 



ments, A. T. Erwin, of Ames ; Silas Professor Shimek, of Iowa City, on 



Wilson, of Atlantic, and B. Shimek. "Reforestation in Iowa" said : "Each 



Dr. Bruce Fink, of Grinnell, deliv- one of more than half the counties of 



ered an interesting address on the Iowa contains rough lands, conserva- 



proper methods for tree pruning, tively estimated at 10 to 50 square 



pointing out common errors commit-- miles in total area, which lie chiefly 



