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of 1910, has accomplished much in preserv- 

 ing the forests of the upper peninsula and 

 guarding against disastrous fires during the 

 past year, was made evident at the first 

 annual meeting of the Association, held in 

 Marquette, Mich., recently. 



The report of Secretary-Forester Thomas 

 B. Wyman, of Munising, shows that the 

 total loss sustained to property in the upper 

 peninsula from forest fires during 1911, ex- 

 clusive of regeneration and occuring after 

 the establishment of the Association's patrol 

 system, was less than $6,000. Of this amount 

 a considerable portion was owned by non- 

 members of the Association. 



New Hampshire 



A review of great results already accom- 

 plished by the Society for the Protection of 

 New Hampshire Forests is presented in the 

 tenth annual report. Much has been done to 

 preserve the wonderful natural resources of 

 the State, but more remains to be done. On 

 the Society's program are : 



Enlargement of the State forest areas. 



Effective cooperation with Federal officials 

 in the purchase of a National forest in the 

 White Mountains. 



Extension of properly managed town for- 

 ests, as a source of continuous revenue. 



Encouragement of an equitable system of 

 forest taxation. 



Education of woodland owners in a wise 

 use of their timber with a view to future 

 returns. 



Stimulation of tree planting throughout 

 the State and the creation of new forests 

 to take the place of those cut off. 



Iowa 



Four vital agricultural bulletins and circu- 

 lars have just been issued by the Iowa Agri- 

 cultural Experiment station for general dis- 

 tribution. No. 127, "Spraying Practice for 

 Orchard and Garden,' is a complete com- 

 pendium on that subject, written by Prof. 

 S. A. Beach, head of the horticultural and 

 forestry section of the experiment station. 

 The bulletin describes all orchard diseases 

 common to the Mississippi valley and tells 

 how to fight them as well as the various pests 

 that cut down orchard yields. 



to serve in his stead. The board now stands 

 as follows : A. Lincoln Fellows, J. H. 

 Gabriel, Mrs. Helen L. Grenfell, W. A. 

 Hover, Jacob Fillius, Mrs. Louise Brooks, 

 C. K. McHarg, E. C. van Diest and W. G. 

 N. Stone. 



Colorado 



The Colorado State Forestry Association 

 held its twenty-seventh annual meeting Feb. 

 15-16. It carried out a good program and 

 closed with a banquet on the evening of the 

 second day which was made exceedingly in- 

 teresting by the presence of the Presidents 

 of the Colorado College, the State Teachers' 

 College, the State Agricultural College and 

 the State University. It will take those who 

 attended a long time to forget the occasion. 



Nine directors were elected, the same per- 

 sons for the third time consecutively, one of 

 the number, General Irving Hale, being 

 seriously ill the Hon. John H. Gabriel was 

 chosen by the other members of the board 



Kentucky 



For the past six years Hon. W. H. Mackey, 

 of Covington, Ky., has been endeavoring to 

 have the State Legislature pass a bill cre- 

 ating a Forestry Bureau and he has recently 

 succeeded. The Bill is now in the hands 

 of the Governor and it is expected will be 

 approved by him. While the appropriation 

 is not large it will doubtless grow year by 

 year. Anyway Mr. Mackey has got the work 

 started and he deserves a great deal of credit 

 for the effort that he has made. The Fores- 

 try Board will consist of five members, and 

 the State Forester must be a graduate of a 

 forest school and a technically trained for- 

 ester. The appropriation is to be $20,000. 



Ohio 



George W. Miller, chairman of the com- 

 mittee on agriculture of Ohio, writes that 

 his committee has sent the following rough 

 draft of a proposal to the Constitutional 

 Convention which will shortly consider it: 



"The general assembly may, in order to 

 encourage the propagatio- , planting and cul- 

 tivation of forestry, pass laws exempting 

 from taxation, in whole or in part, wood 

 lots or plantations devoted exclusively to the 

 growth of forest trees. 



"The general assembly may make further 

 provisions granting the State authority to re- 

 forest and hold as forest reserve such lands 

 or parts of lands that may be forfeited to 

 the State or that may be acquired by the 

 State." 



Maryland 



A bill has been introduced in the Mary- 

 land State Senate by Senator Benson calling 

 for an appropriation of $10,000 annually for 

 carrying on the work of the State Board of 

 Forestry, under the direction of the State 

 Forester, and a special appropriation of $6,- 

 000 for publishing the forest reports and 

 forests maps of the several counties of the 

 State. This is an increase over what has 

 been heretofore appropriated, but this 

 amount is required to meet the growing 

 needs of the work; the need for increased 

 fire protection alone, will require $4,000 an- 

 nually. 



While the Agricultural College, the Ex- 

 periment Station, the Farmers' Institutes, the 

 Granges, the Farmers' _ Clubs and all the 

 other agencies are working for the improve- 

 ment of tilled lands, there is only one the 

 Board of Forestry working for the im- 

 provement and protection of the woodlands, 

 although they represent more than one-third 

 of all the State's land area and are so widely 

 distributed as to be represented on practi- 

 cally every farm, either by woodlot or tim- 

 ber tract. 



