VOL. XIV 



APRIL, 1908 



No. 4 



EDITORIAL 



Important The Conservation Con- 

 vention at the White 

 House, May 13-15, dis- 

 cussed elsewhere in this issue, will be 

 an epoch-making event. FORESTRY 

 AND IRRIGATION- desires to give its 

 readers the full benefit of this meet- 

 ing. Its June issue will be devoted to 

 the proceedings of the Convention. 

 Let every reader of this publication, 

 and especially every member of the 

 American Forestry Association, ad- 

 vertise this fact. Let him tell his 

 friends. Let him put notices in his 

 home papers. Let him have it an- 

 nounced at public meetings. Let him 

 print dodgers and have them dis- 

 tributed. Let him proclaim in every 

 possible way the coming of this great 

 convention, and the fact that its story 

 can be found in the June issue of this 

 magazine. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION is fortu- 

 nately placed with reference to this 

 meeting. It is committed to this work. 

 It is one of the few magazines pub- 

 lished at the National Capital. Its 

 office is within four blocks .if the 

 White House. < >n the I'.oard and 

 Magazine Committee of the American 

 Forestry Association are members of 

 the Inland \Yaterwavs Commission. It 



will have every facility for securing 

 materials. Its date of publication en- 

 ables it to print this matter promptly. 

 Members of organizations, industrial, 

 commercial and philanthropic, that 

 arc interested in this great movement 

 should see that their membership is 

 supplied with copies. An organiza- 

 tion having a treasury can. by vote, 

 order copies by the hundred or the 

 thousand for its membership. < Hher 

 copies can be ordered (,. lie distributed 

 gratuitously for propaganda pnr|>.>- 

 The country should be sown with the 

 story of this great meeting 



Single copies of FOKKSTKN \NI> IR- 

 RIGATION sell at 10 cents each. For 

 large orders, substantial reductions in 

 price can be made. This office, how- 

 ever, should be advi>ed early of coin- 

 ing orders, that it may make pro; 

 preparation. Here is a field of ac- 

 tivity for every member of the W 

 sociation and for everv friend of the 

 movement. 



Status of the On January ,}O the hear- 

 the Appala- H1 ,r " on the Appalachian 



bill was had before the 

 on Agriculture of the 



Representative Then 



chian Bill 



Committee 

 House of 



came the reference of the bill, through 



