FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January 



paper, "Windbreaks." by Prof. \Y. J.. 

 Green, horticulturist Ohio Experiment 

 Station. The session on Thursday 

 morning was devoted to association 

 business. After each of the addresses 

 and papers at all sessions discussion 

 was invited and some interesting facts 

 were elicited. 



In addition to the interesting ses- 

 sions of the association, the Ohio State 

 University had on exhibition sections 

 of some of the more important forest 

 trees of Ohio, and the Morrow County 

 Forestry Association exhibited some 

 trees and sections of trees of locust and 

 catalpa. showing annual increment and 

 height growth. In connection with the 

 meeting of the Ohio Forestry Associ- 

 ation, at the meetings of the various 

 other societies in session at the same 

 time many other addresses on forestry 

 were given. 



The meeting was an undoubted suc- 

 cess and much interest was manifested 

 in forestry. The Ohio association is 

 still a young one, but it is rapidly in- 

 creasing in membership and influence, 

 and has before it an interesting and 

 broad field of activity. 



Report of The report of the secre- 



Massachu- tarv Q f tne Massachu- 

 setts Society - t-v A 



setts Forestry Associa- 

 tion. Mr. Edwin A. Start, read at the 

 annual meeting of the association, held 

 in Boston December 14, and published 

 in the December number of Woodland 

 and Roadside, is interesting, and grat- 

 ifying, inasmuch as it shows a healthy 

 and growing interest in forestrv in 

 New England. The Massachusetts 

 Forestry Association has now 735 

 members, being, in point of size, the 

 largest of the state forestry organiza- 

 tions, with the exception of the Penn- 

 sylvania Forestry Association, which 

 is double the age of the Massachusetts 

 society. 



Mr. Start, in the first portion of his 

 report, details the work accomplished 

 by the association during the past year, 

 and makes recommendations looking 

 to the broadening of the work of the 

 1 'rganization. The second part of the 

 report is an interesting review of Mas- 



sachusetts forestry during the past 

 year. Mr. Start concludes his report 

 as follows: "Today it is not necessary, 

 as it has been, to apologize when we 

 wish to talk forestry in Massachusetts. 

 Rather must we be ready with the 

 facts that are sure to be called for by 

 eager questioners. Nothing can be 

 more encouraging for the future than 

 this, and while it proves what has been 

 done, it points the way to new and 

 larger things." 



In the light of the recent co-opera- 

 tive work of the American Forestry 

 Association and the Massachusetts 

 Forestrv Association looking to the 

 creation of forest reserves in the 

 White Mountains of New Hampshire 

 and the Southern Appalachian Moun- 

 tains, this report is unusually gratify- 

 ing. 



Forest 



Legislation 



Advocated 



At the Rivers and 1 1 ar- 

 bors Congress, held at 

 the New Willard Hotel, 

 in Washington, at the same time as the 

 meeting of the American Forestry As- 

 sociation, the following resolution was 

 unanimously adopted : 



"Whereas, the National Rivers and 

 Harbors Congress, while advocating 

 liberal expenditures for improving the 

 harbors and waterways of our great 

 country, remembers that an ounce of 

 prevention is worth a pound of cure, 

 and that the greatest natural factor in 

 conserving what God has given us is 

 the legitimate preservation of our for- 

 ests, 



"Resolved, That it advocates appro- 

 priate forestry legislation by the Na- 

 tional Congress and adequate govern- 

 ment expenditure in furtherance of 

 protection of our rivers great factors 

 in building up our manufactures, in 

 protecting the interests of agriculture 

 and in silently and cheaply conveying 

 to its ultimate market the enormous 

 products of the mine, the soil, and the 

 factory, with which our country is 

 blessed.'' 



The question of the effect of silt 

 washed down from the forest-denuded 

 headwaters of streams, upon the clog- 

 ging-up of the rivers and harbors of 



