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Maryland took part, in addition to the new 

 state forester in New Hampshire, Mr. E. G. 

 Hirst. 



Mr. Robert P. Bass, president of the state 

 forestry commission, explained the new for- 

 estry law passed by the legislature last win- 

 ter. He urged that citizens throughout tin- 

 state take an interest in the selection ^of 

 the proper person for town forest fire 

 warden. * * * 



The illustrated address on forest conditions 

 in New York State and abroad given by 

 Commissioner Whipple, of New York State, 

 pointed out that, with the diminishing supply 

 of timber in the country at large, and the 

 rapidly increasing population, tree planting 

 on a large scale is becoming a matter of the 

 utmost importance. 



Dr. John H. Finley, president of the Col- 

 lege of the City of New York, and a close 

 personal friend of the late Grover Cleve- 

 land, spoke of the Cleveland Memorial Road 

 in Tamworth. Mrs. Grover Cleveland was 

 present. 



There were other equally interesting ad- 

 dresses. George H. Maxwell, of Chicago, 

 spoke of forest conditions in the West and 

 said that New Hampshire should not give 

 up her struggle to secure a national forest 

 in the White Mountains, because the prin- 

 ciple of Federal control of forests at the 

 head of interstate streams is essential to the 

 well being of the country at large. 



Mr. Allen Hollis, of Concord, stated the 

 difficulties in passing a law to improve the 

 taxation of forests, and said that the proper 

 method, if it could be established by legis- 

 lation, even though it required a change in 

 the Constitution, is to tax the lands only 

 annually and the forest crop once when it 

 is felled. 



The forester of the society, Mr. Philip W 

 Ayres, presented a series of lantern pictures 

 showing the beauty of the forests on the 

 mountains and their complete destruction 

 from lack of better state laws. He urged 

 the acquisition of forest lands by the state 

 and by the towns. Claremont (N. H.) Eagle, 

 August 14, 1909. 



A Field Meeting of the Vermont Forestry 

 Association 



Following the New Hampshire meeting at 

 Bretton Woods, officers of the Vermont For- 

 estry Association conducted a delightful and 

 profitable forestry excursion to the Billing.- 



estate at Woodstock, Vt., where forestry 

 has been practised for twenty years. The 

 party included the several state foresters and 

 about forty members of the Vermont asso- 

 ciation. The Billings estate is one of the 

 most beautiful in this country. Situated in 

 one of the most charming parts of the Green 

 Mountains, its management has shown a 

 fidelity to nature and an adaptation of land- 

 scape effects to natural conditions not sur- 

 passed by the famous Smiley estate in Cali- 

 fornia. The meeting was arranged by Mr. 

 Austin F. Hawes, state forester of Vermont, 

 and conducted by Mr. George Aiken, super- 

 intendent of the estate, who is also secretary 

 of the state board of agriculture. To him 

 the progress of the forest movement in Ver- 

 mont is chiefly due. 



There were visits to the plantations of 

 white pine, in rows six feet apart each war. 

 and of Norway spruce, thirty-two years old, 

 the thinnings of which are now used to make 

 paper pulp of a fine quality. Indeed, it is 

 due to the success of this plantation of 

 Norway spruce that the International Paper 

 Company has established a nursery for the 

 propagation of seedlings of this species, in 

 order to secure a future supply of spruce 

 for pulp at some of its great mills. This 

 is practical forestry. The visitors were con- 

 veyed over the entire estate, through mag- 

 nificent forests, properly thinned years ago ; 

 over roads kept in best condition. The 

 plantations of European larch, sixteen years 

 old, on a sandy, unprofitable hillside, at- 

 tracted much attention, but it was Mr. Aiken's 

 view that white pine on the same ground 

 would have been more profitable. 



After luncheon there were addresses by 

 the state foresters, Mr. Besley, of Maryland; 

 Mr. Gaskill, of New Jersey; Mr. Hirst, of 

 New Hampshire, and Mr. Pettis, of New 

 York. With cordial thanks to Mr. Aiken, the 

 visitors departed. It is through such asso- 

 ciations that the cause of forest protection 

 gains its best headway. 



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Disastrous Fire in Maine Forest 



Biddeford, Me., Aug. 13. More than 

 $100,000 damage has been done here in the 

 last twenty-four hours in the most disastrous 

 forest fire in this section of Maine in years. 

 Already timber covering more than a mile 

 square has been destroyed and though tru' 

 fire is temporarily checked, it is feared that 

 a shift in the wind will more than double 

 the damage. 



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