74 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



February 



leading men and women of their com- 

 munity they will be qualified to stand 

 for all that is best in civic righteous- 

 ness. 



"It is through the home and the 

 school that the youth of our land shall 

 be taught to promote and enlarge the 

 cause for which this organization was 

 initiated." 



The forestry cause likewise can be 

 advanced by the instruction of chil 

 dren. The nature and usefulness of 

 trees can be brought in as a part of 

 the nature study in schools, and also 

 as geography. 



Mr. Mills's Mr. Enos A. Mills, lec- 



turer on forestr > r ' has 

 recently spent a few 



hours in Washington. His habitual 

 modesty renders it difficult to secure 

 from him adequate reports of his 

 work. On earnest solicitation, how- 

 ever, he prepared, on the train, the 

 following brief statement of the mag- 

 nificent campaign he has been mak- 

 ing in recent months. It will be read 

 with interest by all friends of the 

 great movement for the conservation 

 of our resources : 



MY DEAR DR. WILL: 



During October, November, and 

 December, 1907, and the first ten 

 days of January. 1908, I visited 

 sixteen States and made eighty- 

 one forestry addresses. Among the 

 States visited were Oregon, Georgia, 

 Minnesota, and Missouri. Never 

 have I found the interest in 

 trees so general ; the average at- 

 tendance at the public meetings 

 was 500, and the greater number of 

 those attending were public-spirited 

 people. One State fair was made, and 

 it was a satisfaction to be able to ad- 

 dress seven State Federations of Wo- 

 men's Clubs and the entire student 

 bodies of seven State Colleges. I 

 also addressed the high schools in St. 

 Louis, St. Paul and Minneapolis. 

 At Topeka, Kas., the city donated the 

 use of the largest auditorium in the 

 State, and enthusiastic members of 

 the Forestry Association there almost 



filled the building. At Louisville, 

 Ky., I had one of my best audiences. 

 The audiences in North Dakota, Ore- 

 gon and Georgia were irrepressibly 

 enthusiastic. There is a good and 

 rapidly growing interest in Forestry. 

 Xcver before, to me, has the hope for 

 forestry been one half so encouraging. 

 Yours always, 



Exos A. MILLS. 



Good Roads The National Grange, 

 Urged by the whh nearl million 



Grange . 



members, representing 



the agricultural interests of the Nation, 

 has undertaken to secure recognition 

 of the necessity for a comprehensive 

 oplicy of public road improve- 

 ments. The Grange favors a general 

 policy of good road construction by 

 municipalities, counties and states, and 

 liberal appropriations by Congress to 

 promote improvement. The Graii^r 

 asserts that no argument can be ad- 

 vanced in favor of appropriations by 

 Congress on behalf of river and har- 

 bor improvements that does not apply 

 even more strongly to the improve- 

 ment of our public roads. Mr. N. J. 

 Bachelder. master of the National 

 Grange, is a director of the American 

 Forestry Association. 



Finances Trees along the fences 



add to the beauty of a 

 road, and furnish con- 

 siderable wood ; but objection is made 

 to them because of the soil space that 

 they take up, to the detriment of farm 

 crops. They may be considered, how- 

 ever, as a valuable crop in themselves. 

 There is a stretch of five or six 

 miles of the public road west of 

 Downs, Kans., lined with trees on 

 either side. Naturally, travelers, who 

 can do so without going out of their 

 way, select this road, and the trees 

 lend additional value to the farms on 

 which they stand. 



Tall cottonwoods line the south side 

 of Morris B. Thompson's farm. For 

 one-half of the distance along a field 

 a quarter of a mile long the trees are 

 scattered. For the rest of the way 



