IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 



The American Forestry Associa- of the ma^ r a/ine may. if n be 



tion has recently written its members, run off. 



urging their aid in securing what an Trial subscribers should, in 

 enthusiastic member calls "short term case, receive the June number. Mem- 

 educational subscriptions" to FORESTRY bers, therefore, intending to comply 

 AND IRRIGATION i.e., six months' sub- with the request made, of them in the 

 scriptions, at the rate of 25 cents each, letter above referred to, should act 

 The responses daily pouring into its promptly. 



offices have far exceeded its expec- Numbers soon to follow will treat 

 tations. Members thus co-operating of inland waterways, drainage, water- 

 are cordially thanked, while those who power, reclamation of arid lands, and 

 have not replied are urged to do so. other questions connected with the 



As announced, the current issue of conservation of natural resources. In 

 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION is devoted pushing its educational propaganda, 

 to a report of the White House Con- the Association desires to avail itself 

 ference. To find space, the size of fully of the deep and widespread in- 

 type used has been reduced, and the terest aroused by the Governors' Con- 

 number of pages increased twenty- ference. Members willing to aid its 

 five per cent. work can find no better time and no 



That none desiring it may fail to greater opportunity than that afforded 

 receive a copy of this report, the forms by the great gathering so recently ad- 

 are being held, that another edition journed. Let the orders come. 



THE DRAINAGE CONGRESS 



T" HE friends of Federal aid to drain- ware. Hon. William Jennings Bryan 

 age have every reason to feel en- volunteered a most excellent talk, in 

 couraged at the meeting held by the which he assured the audience of his 

 National Drainage Association in thorough belief in the cause of Fed- 

 Washington on May 12 and 13. While eral aid through the reclamation of 

 the Congress was not so largely at- overflowed and swamp lands- 

 tended as had been hoped, this is ac- Under the call of states, every dele- 

 counted for by the Conference of the gate was emphatic as to the absolute 

 Governors, at the White House, and necessity, both from a commercial and 

 by other gatherings of scientific and a sanitary standpoint, for prompt ac- 

 professional men in the Capitol at the tion by Congress in this great work 

 same time. of internal improvement. There v 



The several sessions were replete a slight diversity of opinion as to the 



with general interest ; some of the most best methods of obtaining Congres- 



pronounced advocates of Federal aid sional action ; however, eleven-twelfths 



to drainage appeared before the Con- of all present were in favor of a bill 



gress, and in no uncertain terms gave such as has been formulated by the 



assurance to the members of their Secretary of the Interior, and which 



thorough conviction that the cause will is kno\\n as the Flint Hill 



ultimately triumph. At all periods of the C<>n-rcss the 



Among those speaking were Sen- utmost harmony ; F.verv 



ator Clapp, of Minnesota, Senator delegate rcali/ed that the Fed- 



Newlands, of Nevada, Representative eral aid to drainage had made remark - 



Xelson Steenerson, of Minnesota, and able strides since the first meeting at 



Representative H. R. Burton, of Dela- Oklahoma City, in IXvrmber. 1906. 



