WITH MEMBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS 



TV. TUT - Henry A. Barker, 



chairman of the Commit- 

 Magazme ^ Qn p arkg and p ubUc 



Reservations, American Civic Asso- 

 ciation, wrote on March Qth : 



"I want to compliment you very 

 heartily on the March number of FOR- 

 ESTRY AND IRRIGATION. It is impos- 

 sible to imagine any Congressman 

 reading it through and waiting a day 

 before calling up the Appalachian 

 matter. 



"Will you send me several more 

 copies, as I want to distribute them to 

 the papers in order that they may be 

 reviewed?" 



Miles Roberts, of Xew York. 

 sends in a new member and asks es- 

 pecially that the new member receive 

 the March issue, saying that this is 

 the best number yet out. as it seems to 

 him. 



Improve- 

 ment in 

 Magazine 



A correspondent writing 

 from Kansas City says : 

 ''I must congratulate 

 you on the improvement, and I think 

 the improved appearance, you have 

 made in FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 

 I wish you and the magazine much 

 success." 



Texas to Mr. John M Gilbert, of 



Improve Beaumont, Texas, writes 



Legislation '~ 



that an effort is being 



made to procure advanced forestry 

 >< uislation in that State. 



He has obtained copies of the for- 

 estry laws of various States, includ- 

 ing Maryland, California, and Ala- 

 bama, which are generally regarded as 

 being the most comprehensive and 

 practical of any .which have been pass- 

 ed in the three sections of the country 

 which these States respectively repre- 

 sent. 



It is fortunate that a man of long 

 experience and high standing among 

 the lumbermen of Texas, such as Mr. 

 Ciilbert. is taking an active interest in 

 this work, and it is to be hoped that 

 his influence will bring about more 

 conservative methods of logging in the 

 region affected. 



Practical ' David R ' Breed ' of 



Religion Pittsburg, Pa., professor 



of practical theology in 

 the Western Theological Seminary, 

 wrote on March 16: 



"I have been a member of the 

 Forestry Association for some years. 

 Next Monday morning I am to read 

 a paper before our ministers' associa- 

 tion on 'Reforestation -- Our Su- 

 preme National Duty.' ' He asked 

 for literature to distribute at the meet- 

 ing- 

 May not a minister, by such 

 means, aid in establishing the "new 

 earth in which dwelleth righteous- 

 ness?" 



Show Mr. Alfred Senn, of 



Them the Sheboygan, Wisconsin. 

 Opportunity , 



sent in recently a large 



number of new members and the fol- 

 lowing information: 



"It seems to me that with regard to 

 private forestry the symptoms are 

 now indicating a prosperous future in 

 this State, and I have decided to take 

 this kind of work. There are besides 

 lumbermen and land companies, quite 

 a number of wealthy people that have 

 holdings in the northern part of this 

 State, but none of these are under 

 management. There are quite a num- 

 ber of people that ought to take up 

 planting. All it needs is to illustrate to 

 these people that from the economical 

 and financial point of view, reforest- 

 ing of waste land is the best and surest 

 investment." 



Both the new members and the in- 

 formation are appreciated. 



Fighting 

 Fcr Her 

 Trees 



Mrs. D. M. Osborne. of 

 Auburn, N. Y., is not 

 only exceedingly inter- 

 ested in the forests at large ; but has 

 been making a fight for her own trees, 

 with lawsuits against a telephone com- 

 pany which put up a line on the road 

 without her permission and trimmed 

 trees on her part of the way merci- 

 lessly. Half of the road belongs to 

 Mrs. Osborne, and when she learned 

 what was going on she drove off the 

 workmen and cut down the poles. 



