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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



December 



utility trees black locust and hardy 

 catalpa. Also by the munificence of 

 General Palmer and Dr. Bell a fores- 

 try school has been established in Col- 

 orado College, at Colorado Springs. 

 Within three years the forestry senti- 

 ment has developed so rapidly that the 

 State Agricultural College has added 

 "forestry" to the program of subjects 

 in farmers' institute work, and will 

 open a Short Course in Forestry for 

 the second half of February, to be pre- 

 sided over by Prof. H. P. Baker, of 

 Ames, Iowa ; and if sufficient funds 

 can be found availabe the State Agri- 

 cultural College will establish a De- 

 partment of Forestry the coming year. 

 The State Federation of Womens' 

 Clubs has taken up forestry as a sub- 

 ject of study during the last two years. 

 A Forestry Section has been thorough- 

 ly organized and is doing able and ad- 

 mirable work, one very remarkable 

 feature of which has been the discov- 

 ery and development of one of the 



most successful and aggressive lectur- 

 ers on forestry the country has known, 

 Mr. Enos A. Mills, of Estes Park, 

 Colo., who recently competed a two 

 months' tour from Peublo, Colo., to 

 Boston, filling fifty appointments, 

 many of them of unusual importance, 

 is a striking incident in the progress of 

 forestry. 



Then, too, the Colorado State For- 

 estry Association is to the front with 

 an appeal to the approaching General 

 Assembly for a radical revision of the 

 forestry laws, asking for a Board of 

 Forestry, a State Forester, a state nur- 

 sery and various other important 

 things which if put on our statute 

 books will mark a notable era in the 

 progress of forestry in Colorado. Im- 

 patient as many of us are to see more 

 things done, a careful survey of the 

 situation reveals a degree of progress 

 that to the reflective mind is gratify- 

 ing in the extreme. 



HAS AUTHORITY, BUT NO MONEY 



Minnesota State Forestry Board Needs an Appropriation 

 Legislature Will Be Be Asked to Provide Funds for Car- 

 rying Out Law of 1903 Relating to Forest Reserves 



HTHE Minnesota State Forestry number of about 700,000 evergreen 

 * Board, at its meeting in the capi- seedlings, principally Norway spruce, 

 tol December it, decided to recom- and each has cost to date not exceed- 

 mend an annual appropriation of $25,- ing one mill apiece. They will be three 

 000 for carrying out the provisions of years old next spring, and being now 

 the law of 1903, which authorized the crowded ought then to be planted, 

 board to purchase certain lands for There are enough to plant 250 acres, 

 forest reserves but for which no ap- and as much of the land is somewhat 

 propriation has been made. The board brushy and the spots for planting re- 

 will recommend also that an examina- quire little clearing, the expense of 

 tion of the remaining vacant land be planting probably will average $10 per 

 made for the purpose of ascertaining acre. There should, therefore, be an 

 what tracts would be suitable only for appropriation of $2,500, to be avail- 

 forestry, with a view to having such able next spring, to do this planting, 

 lands used for forestry purposes. There are now five pulp paper mills in 

 The report, in part, follows: Minnesota, ahd it is believed the ex- 

 "On the Pillsbury reserve, in Cass periment of growing spruce on this 

 county, the board has established a Pillsbury reserve for paper pulp will 

 nursery now containing the estimated prove valuable. 



