Forestry and Irrigation. 



Vol. XII. 



JANUARY, 1906. 



No. 1 



NEWS AND NOTES 



. . . The meeting: of the Amer- 



The Annual . ^ . . 



Meeting lcan -forestry Associa- 



tion, held in Washing- 

 ton, D. C, January 16 and 17, was one 

 of the most important yet held. The 

 reports by the Board of Directors and 

 the Treasurer showed a splendid 

 growth of the Association during the 

 past year, and much business of im- 

 portance was transacted at the three 

 sessions. This number of Forestry 

 and Irrigation contains the complete 

 proceedings of the meeting, including 

 reports of the Directors, Treasurer, re- 

 vised by-laws, papers read, and reso- 

 lutions passed. 



Canadian 



Forestry 



Meeting 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, 

 Forester, U. S. Forest 

 Service, returned to 

 Washington in time for the annual 

 meeting of the American Forestry 

 Association, after a trip to Canada, 

 where he attended the meeting of the 

 Canadian Forestry Convention at Ot- 

 tawa on the 10th, nth, and 12th. Mr. 

 Pinchot addressed the convention on 

 the ioth.his subject being "The United 

 States Forest Service." Previous to 

 this, on January 8, Mr. Pinchot was 

 the principal speaker at a luncheon 

 given by the Canadian Club of Toron- 

 to, when he spoke on "American For- 

 estry." 



The Canadian Forestry Association, 

 under whose auspices the convention 

 was held, is greatly interested in 

 American forestry. A very large num- 

 ber are members of the American For- 

 estry Association, and have attended 

 many of its meetings and contributed 

 valuable information in addresses and 

 papers. Mr. Pinchot was warmly re- 

 ceived, both at the convention and at 



Toronto. The convention was the 

 greatest and most representative gath- 

 ering of its nature that has ever been 

 held in the Dominion, in many respects 

 equalling the very remarkable Ameri- 

 can Forest Congress held under the 

 auspices of the American Forestry As- 

 sociation last year. 



Meeting of 



Ohio 



Association 



The Ohio State Forestry 

 Association held a very 

 successful meeting in 

 Columbus on January 9 and 10. The 

 State Horticultural Societies, State 

 Farmers' Institute, and Board of Agri- 

 culture met in Columbus at the same 

 time, and the Ohio Forestry Associa- 

 tion convention was attended by a large 

 number of the members of each of 

 these organizations and a good attend- 

 ance of its members. The program of 

 the meeting was as follows : First ses- 

 sion, Tuesday evening, January 9, at 

 Townsend Hall, Ohio State Univer- 

 sity : Address by the president, Prof. 

 William R. Lazenby ; paper, "The 

 Trees We Might Have and Do Not," 

 by L. B. Pierce; paper, "How to Get 

 Farmers Interested in Forestry," by 

 H. C. Rogers ; paper, "Practical For- 

 estry From Actual Experience," by 

 William Hanna ; paper, "Some Rea- 

 sons for Saving, Improving, and Re- 

 planting Forests in Ohio," by Prof. 

 William R. Lazenby. Second session, 

 Wednesday evening, at Board of 

 Trade Auditorium : Forestry address- 

 es by W. W. Farnsworth, president of 

 the State Horticultural Society, and 

 Dr. W. O. Thompson* president Ohio 

 State University ; address, "What Mor- 

 row County is Doing Along Forestry 

 Lines," by Horatio Markley, secretary 

 Morrow County Forestry Association ; 



