FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January 





each of these purposes-so much for 

 forestry instruction to students, and 



' makras 



this end 



True, there is more money . arcula- 

 tion in the county to-day than ever be- 



as 





eSed that the income should no long- 

 er be used for this purpose, but cov- 

 ered into the Treasury What could 

 be more appropriate than to use a por- 

 tion of it for adding to the people's 

 knowledge of methods of preserving 

 and economizing the woodland re- 

 sources which they possess outside the 

 National Forests? Four-fifths of the 

 woods of the country are in private 

 hands; and a large share of these are 

 in the shape of farm woodlots. The 

 farmers, at their colleges, should be 

 taught to improve -their timber crop 

 as well as other crops. 



'Prosperity" In Forest and Stream 

 That Means f or November 2d ap- 

 pears a letter from Dr. 

 C. P. Ambler, of Asheville, N. C., 

 sketching the history of the Appa- 

 lachian movement, reporting the Ashe- 

 ville meeting addressed by Secretary 

 Will, giving the resolution adopted 

 and saying: "There has been estab- 

 lished in the heart of the section under 

 consideration (the Southern Appa- 

 lachian region) one of the largest 

 tanneries in the world ; there is now 

 being built at Canton, thirty miles 

 west of Asheville, what is expected to 



cutting of the forests ot our steep 

 mountain sides, places 

 County with to-day their million c ol- 

 lar paper pulp plants. in another 



generation, in all probability be aban- 

 doned wastes and desolate land 



Truer words were never spoken. 

 the people of Hay wood County, North 

 Carolina, want to learn in advance 

 what their great million dollar pulp 

 mill will mean to the community let 

 them get into touch with some of the 

 communities referred to by Am- 



bier. They should have heard, for e* 

 ample, the words spoken to Secretary 

 Will on the occasion of his recent 

 meeting (November 27) at Bay City, 

 Mich., by some representative citizens 

 of that place. In terms well weighed 

 but weighty and blistering they de- 

 scribed the bygone reign of the lum- 

 bermen in their city and region, the 

 crisis which followed the abrupt end- 

 ing of the lumber business, the long, 

 slow period of recuperation and their 

 wholesome dread lest the policy of re- 

 forestation, now so actively urged in 

 Michigan, might result in a repetition 

 of the old-time experiences. The burnt 

 children fear the fire, and the citizens 

 of Havwood County may profitably 

 learn from their experience. 



