F< IRES IKY \ I 1111- BIENNIAL 



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plant trees, ll there were n' other i 

 son, [lu- planting i'l" tr< I valuable 



st 'iircc i if revenue." 



The chairman of the Indiana State 

 Forestry i ' unmittee. Mr>. X. 1.. Ag- 

 uew, of \ alparai- -. Ind.. looks forward 

 tn Icgi-lation pn>\ iding fur a state tree 

 and fur planting forest tree- where the 

 land is unprofitable fur agriculture, aUu 

 tu a law fur the protection uf -hade ami 

 roadside tree-, and tu the appointment 

 uf a tree warden in every tuwn. who 

 -hall protect tree- fnun injury h\ ani- 

 mals, provide wire guards, and other- 

 wise look after the trees in his district. 

 Among other -tate chairmen of for- 

 estry committees who took part in the 

 forestry conference were: Miss Fli/a- 

 beth K". IIol,],-. ,,f North llerwick. Me.; 

 Mr-. Chas. 11. lulls, of Wyoming. Del.; 

 Miss S. Elizabeth I)emare-t, 130 Bloom- 

 field Street. 1'assaic. X. J. ; Mrs. Mil- 

 ton Sawyer \\'oodman. West Lebanon, 

 N. H., and Mrs. C. L. Hilleary, of In- 

 dianapolis, Ind. 



At the formal meeting on Forestry 

 the speakers were introduced by Mr-. 

 P. S. Peterson. 



Mrs. Peterson has devoted many 

 years to practical forestry questions and 

 is an enthusiastic and zealous worker. 

 She has studied the question amid 

 most favorable environment, the Peter 

 son IIUI-MTV at Chicago and extensive 

 travel through the furests of Norway, 

 Sweden, and Cermam has ad-led to her 

 knowledge. She organized forc-trv 

 work in the Illin 'i- federation, and wa- 

 the tir-t chairman of Forestry in Illi- 

 nois She i- the lea !er of large classes 

 in fore-try and tree-stu ly among ex- 

 clusive clubs in Chicago. Mrs. Peter- 

 sun -tated that for -ix years the wom- 

 en's dubs of the country had been - 

 tematically organized t promote work 

 for forestry. 



Mr-. Mary Reilley Smith, a promi- 

 nent member of Sorosis ' f New 

 Y<>rk City, was introduced by Mr- 

 Peters^,] a- the author of the poem and 

 SOng, "Scatter Seeds of Kindnr-s." an 1 

 sjxikc of the bird- a- "the sky children.' 

 The subject of her "The 



\ 'ice ' .f the I Mrs. Smith said 



the in-cctiverous birds 'd to the 



CO 'ii' unic de|iartnient >i nature, and that 

 if they were de.stro\i-d. humanitv would 

 have a hard time getting alng. even if 



man could ex earth at all. 



She appealed to woman's power to 

 help to right the wrong of the extermi- 

 nation of bird- of beautiful plumage be- 

 cause of the ruthless, demands of fa-h- 

 ion. and said it lay in the ability t" 

 choose between a i da feather 



Mrs. Smith -aid, "I wa- once quoted 

 having said that wearing bird- and 

 wing- brought wrinkle-. 1 did not - 

 that : I only sai 1 1 wished it did." 



Mr. Fno- A. Mills, of Estes Park. 

 Colo., gave a poetic es-ay on the woods 

 in which he appealed to -entiment to 

 save the trees from destruction. lie 

 gave many beautiful and graphic illus- 

 trations to show the humanitarian si 

 of our forest friends and bis charming 

 word pictures of cam]) life appealed to 

 all. 



At the forestry conference, the di- 

 cussion was opened by an address on 

 "Waste of Natural lv--ources. Inclu ' 

 ing Forest-, and Need for Conserva- 

 tion,'' by Mr- Lydia Adams-Williams, 

 of Washington. I). C., who appealed to 

 the women to take up the work of o-n 

 servation and t> save from p: 

 waste and destruction the natural I 

 sources, including the timber, the water 

 power, the soil, and the fuel and indus- 

 trial mineral- Mr- Adams-Williams 

 referred to President I-' ''It'- letter 



inviting Mr-. Sarah S. Plait Decker to 

 the Governors' Conference, in which 

 the President a-ked th' .'ration of 



the women of the country in bringing 

 the matter of conservation ! the 



pet >ple. 



Mr. F.iios. A Mills also ga\. 

 dre-- l-ef'-re the conference, which 

 tained practical and helpful s- >ns 



A number of qr.- ' 



the floor, and a general ''iscu--i"ii and 

 short talks b\ chairmen of : 

 coinmitte' I their represeutat;-. 



brought to a ' 



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