REPORT OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY 

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE YEAR 1907 



O )R the American Forestry Associa- found, 24 ; total. 723 ; leaving of the 

 A tion, the year 1907 has been, in former member-. 4.Sjo. 

 some respects, a notable one. In Jan- To the-e. m-w member- ha\r Keen 

 uary the magazine, FORESTRY AND IR- added a-. follows; 1'atron. i; Life. 

 Kir,. \TIOX, was purchased from the 45; Sustaining. 27; Annual. 1,662; 

 Forestry and Irrigation Publishing making a total of 1.735. Tin- Mini of 

 Company, for the sum of $1,650; the the former members retained and of 

 Association paying, at the same time, the new member s added was. there- 

 to the Fore-try and Irrigation Publish- fore, 6.555. 



ing Company, the sum of $1,458.60 to The total receipts from the-e new 



cancel its indebtedness to that organi- members were $0.499. T c cost of 



zation. this membership campaign, including 



In the eleven and one-half months the printing and mailing of [22,078 

 intervening between the purchase of invitation-, postage on the >ame. and 

 the magazine and the close of the cal- Mich portion of the office pay-roll as 

 endar year thirteen issues were pub- was estimated to be properly char 

 lished; the magazine thus being made able with this work, was $6.350. S'>: 

 to appear, since February, on time, leaving an excess of receipts over ex- 

 Special effort has been made to im- penditures amounting to $3.145.117. 

 prove the general character and ap- To the fullest extent of its capacity. 

 pearance of the publication. The is- the office of the Association ha- pi 

 sue for January, 1908, included 9,200 m oted the Appalachian campaign. In 

 copies, 6,645 of these being for mem- this work it has fully utilized it- num- 

 bers, and the others for subscribers, azine, circular letters, folder-, and 

 exchanges, advertisers, and general pre ss bulletins. Its Secretary h 

 propaganda. On July I a prcs< bnlle- lectured extensively, -peaking thin, 

 tin service was instituted. Since that times in four Southern States, and 

 time copies have been issued weekly to twenty-two times in six \Ye-tern and 

 me 1.500 newspapers. Clippings Middle States, these lectures being ful- 

 and marked copies returned show that ly reported by the press. h-Howing all 

 these bulletins were widely used. of tlu--r addresses save three, re-olu- 



Circular letters to the number of tions endorsing the Appalachian Kill 



1.25.000, and folders to the number of were passed. lie ha- al-o addre- 



13*. 143 have been issued. the annual meet in-- of the \'atinai 



During the greater part of the year Slack Cooperage 



the membership campaign was pur- sociation, the 



sued with vigor. Though measurably Manufacturers 



affected by the industrial depression, acre Summer Conference. an< 



the following results were obtained: tended ..ther important i 



The membership for December 51, mating the pass 



1906, which was 5,543, was reduced as olutions and 



follows; Resignations i three advanc- P res s articles in advo< 



ing to Life, four to Sustaining, and lachian Kill 



one Sustaining changed to Annual i. forestry. 



547; death-. 42: dropped, im; not Attention i- ealled to the hp >aden- 



'Read l>y the Secretary of the Vssociation, Thmas Klnu-r Will, at the 

 Annual M.-i-iin^. NYa-liiiiytim. January _->. i 



