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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



May 



the background is a nice forest growth 

 a number of years older, perhaps ten 

 years old. Such scenes as these are 

 common in southeastern North Caro- 

 lina, millions of little pines of this 

 species and the loblolly pine spring- 

 ing up wherever cultivation is neg- 

 lected and stock excluded. 



Thirteenth The Thirteenth National 

 Irrigation Irrigation Congress will 



Congress. be held at Portland, Ore- 



gon, August 21-24. Governor Pardee, 

 of California, is president of this con- 



tion was adopted to the effect that it 

 will endeavor to raise a fund of not 

 less than $100,000 as an endowment 

 for this purpose. A committee was 

 appointed to carry on the work of rais- 

 ing the money. 



This decision to raise funds for the 

 support of a chair in forestry was the 

 outcome of a plea made before the con- 

 vention by Mr. Gifford Pinchot. 



The success of this move will sup- 

 ply instruction of the most valuable 

 kind for young men taking up the pro- 



Photo by Romeyn B. Hough. 



Longleaf Pine Reforesting a Field Where Cultivation Has Been Neglected. 



gress ; Mr. C. B. Booth, of Los An- 

 geles, chairman of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, and Mr. Thos. Richardson, of 

 New Orleans, is secretary. The com- 

 plete program of the congress will be 

 announced at an earlv date. 



Chair of 

 Lumbering. 



The Yale Forest School 

 is likely to have a chair 

 of lumbering at a rea- 

 sonably early date. At the annual 

 meeting of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association a resolu- 



fession of forestry. Further, it is re- 

 markably significant of the growing 

 interest lumbermen are coming to have 

 in the practice of forestry. 



The Cleveland - Cliffs 

 Iron Company, whose 

 forest lands are located 

 in northern Michigan, are considering 

 the employment of a trained forester. 

 He will be charged with recommend- 

 ing a detailed and definite forest policy 

 for the management of the forest lands 



Forester 

 Wanted. 



