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is receiving steadily increasing support on the management of State forests in 



and recognition. Pennsylvania. 



At the fifth annual forestry confer- At the annual meeting of the Society 

 ence meeting on the afternoon of July for the Protection of New Hampshire 

 18 there were represented the American Forests, held on the morning of July 

 Forestry Association, the Society for 19, reports were made on the gratifying 

 the Protection of Xew Hampshire For- progress of the society's work in the 

 ests, the New Hampshire Timberland past year. In addition, Herbert Welsh, 

 Owners' Association, and the Associa- of Philadelphia, spoke about the prog- 

 tion of North Eastern Foresters. The ress upon the Sunapee Forest Reserva- 

 fire protection problem was discussed tion, and Harris A. Reynolds, Secretary 

 at length, papers being read by Prof, of the Massachusetts Forestry Associa- 

 J. H. Foster, of the New Hampshire tion, told how he is organizing branch 

 State College ; E. A. Ryder, Commis- associations in that State, 

 sioner of the Department of Claims, The ever interesting and vital ques- 

 Boston and Maine R. R. ; State For- tion of the taxation of forests was dis- 

 ester E. C. Hirst, of New Hampshire ; cussed at the concluding meeting of the 

 F. H. Billard, forester of the New conference on Friday afternoon. Dr. B. 

 Hampshire Timber Land Owners' As- E. Fernow spoke on the principles un- 

 sociation ; F. G. Olmstead, consulting derlying the taxation of forests ; Prof, 

 forester of Boston; F. W. Rane, state F. R. Fairchild, of Yale, discussed the 

 forester of Massachusetts; S. N. taxation of forests in America and 

 Spring, state forester of Connecticut ; abroad ; and Prof. Charles J. Bullock, 

 Austin F. Hawes, state forester of Ver- of Harvard, gave his ideas on practical 

 mont, and Dr. B. E. Fernow, of To- plans for taxation in New Hampshire 

 ronto. and Massachusetts. The other forest- 

 In the evening H. S. Bristol, superin- ers and lumbermen present joined in 

 tendent of Woodlands, for the Dela- the discussion, which, while it resulted 

 ware and Hudson R. R. Co., spoke on in the enlightenment and instruction as 

 problems of forestry as they relate to to ways and means, of all who were 

 the railway; Prof. Walter Mulford, of present, did not reach any definite con- 

 Cornell, discussed the prospects of for- elusion as to the best way to overcome 

 estry as a profession; Prof. W. C. existing difficulties. 

 O'Kane, of the New Hampshire State In the evening, at the Crawford 

 College, spoke on the present status and House, Philip W. Ayres, forester of the 

 prospects of the gypsy moth and the Society for the Protection of New 

 brown tail moth in the State; George Hampshire Forests, gave an illustrated 

 H. Wirt, chief forest inspector of address on the forests of the White 

 Pennsylania, gave an illustrated lecture Mountains. 



MORE LAND FOR RESERVE 



Washington, D. C. The National Forest Reservation Commission has approved for 

 purchase 55,000 acres in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. In ad- 

 dition, a tract of 24,900 acres, near the Natural Bridge, in Virginia, was approved for 

 It is estimated that nearly $2,000,000 was expended in connection with the ac- 

 quistion of lands under the provisions of the Weeks law during the fiscal year which ended 

 June 30, 1912. 



