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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



March 



Bates, of the General Electric Com- 

 pany ; Prof. H. D. House, Mr. W. S. 

 Lee', jr., Dr. Collier Cobb, Governor 

 Glenn, and others. 



The most important feature of the 

 meeting was the decision to appoint a 

 committee to urge the passage of the 

 bill now pending in Congress provid- 

 ing for forest reserves in the Southern 

 Appalachian and White Mountains. 

 Governor Glenn was selected chairman 

 of this committee and requested to se- 

 lect the same, asking the Governors of 

 Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylva- 

 nia, Maryland, Tennessee, North Car- 

 olina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alaba- 

 ma, and each of the New England 

 states to co-operate with him in the ap- 

 pointment of such a committee. 



Interest in forestry in the South is 

 slowly taking root, and judging from 

 the excelent resolutions adopted at this 

 Charlotte meeting, and the evident in- 

 terest of all present, the time is not far 

 off when the South will come to a 

 realization of the importance of hus- 

 banding its timber resources. 



Yale Captain George Adelbert 



student for Wilmot of the class of 

 South ALica igo6 in the Yak Forest 



School has just been notified by the 

 colonial government of the Cape of 

 Good Hope in South Africa of his ap- 

 pointment as an assistant instructor in 

 forestry and lecturer in forest law in 

 the newly established forest school at 

 Cape Town. 



Captain Wilmot, who was educated 

 at the University of Dublin, gave up 

 his studies in forestry to join her 

 majesty's forces in the Boer war, in 

 which he served with distinction, re- 

 tiring with rank of captain. After the 

 close of the war he resumed his work 

 in forestry under the colonial govern- 

 ment, which offered to send him to any 

 of the different schools that he might 

 elect. After canvassing the ground 

 thoroughly and after considerable cor- 

 respondence with Prof. Henry S. 

 Graves, the director of the Yale Forest 

 School, he finally chose the Yale For- 

 est School as the best suited to his pur- 



pose, and has repeatedly expressed 

 himself as more than satisfied with his 

 choice. He also desired to study our 

 methods of planting, as the main prob- 

 lems of the South African forester are 

 those of afforestation. Since his arri- 

 val here in the fall of 1904 he has spent 

 his vacations in traveling about the 

 country examining our work in for- 

 estry, and particularly our experiments 

 in tree planting in the Middle West. 

 He is just now leaving, at the request 

 of his government, and by the courtesy 

 of the authorities of the Yale Forest 

 School, to study the conifers of tem- 

 perate Mexico. The climate condi- 

 tions there being somewhat similar to 

 those in South Africa, it is hoped by 

 the officials of the South African gov- 

 ernment that some of the Mexican 

 conifers may be found suitable for 

 planting in South Africa. Upon his 

 return from Mexico, Captain Wilmot 

 will proceed to Germany for a brief 

 period of study there, after which he 

 will go on to Cape Town to take up his 

 work in the newly established forest 

 school. 



Reclamation Following the lead of 

 Th nd d Senator Hansbrough's 

 bill to divert a million 

 dollars from the reclamation fund for 

 drainage in his state of North Dakota, 

 other congressmen, especially in the 

 east, are waking up to the opportuni- 

 ties such a lead presents. Representa- 

 tive Small has introduced a bill to take 

 $1,000,000 from the reclamation fund 

 to drain the historic Dismal Swamp in 

 Virginia and North Carolina If funds 

 are diverted for these projects, why 

 not use the reclamation fund for re- 

 claiming the swamps of Florida, Lou- 

 isiana, Arkansas, and a long list of 

 others? Active efforts along these 

 lines may prove successful, but the 

 plan of developing the arid West 

 would in this way receive a mighty 

 serious setback. The reclamation fund 

 has been judiciously distributed by the 

 Secretary of the Interior so as to pro- 

 vide for the utilization of the fund, in- 

 cluding the estimated receipts for the 

 next three years, in order that the 



