224: AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The tenth annual meeting of the Ohio which were won in Idaho, Montana, 



State Forestry Society was held in and Oklahoma restored to the public 



Columbus, Ohio, recently. A number domain a total of over four thousand 



of interesting addresses were given and acres. This culmination is in line with 



all present were enthusiastic and felt the announced policy of Secretrry Lane, 



they were doing a good work. The which is that of no compromise for those 



officers of last year were reelected: charged with public-land frauds. 

 President, Wm. R. Lazenby, Columbus, 



Vice President, W. J. Green, Wooster; Other suits brought by the Depart- 



Secretary, J. J. Crumley, Wooster; ment of the Interior, in cooperation 



Treasurer, H. C. Rogers, Mechanics- with the Department of Justice, during 



burg. the month of December, 1913, were 



recommended for timber depredations 



Three thousand acres of public tim- on the public domain in Alabama, 

 ber land valued at nearly $170,000 have Florida and Mississippi, involving dam- 

 been recovered by the Department of ages to the extent of over $5,000. 

 the Interior from those who had made 



fraudulent entries thereon. A long Two judgments in favor of the Gov- 



litigation was involved in this suit, eminent in timber depredation cases 



which ended in favor of the Government were secured in Arkansas and Idaho, 



in the Circuit Court of Appeals having Two suits were recommended to set 



jurisdiction of the Lewiston, Idaho, aside patents fraudeulntly acquired in 



land district. This suit and six others Mississippi and Washington. 



IMPORTANT FORESTRY LEGISLATION 



IN VIRGINIA 



VIRGINIANS are making a de- measures^for the^better development of 

 termined effort to secure the the forests. Under this act, $10,000 

 passage of a bill looking toward has been spent in the past two years in 

 the better protection and de- fighting the chestnut blight, and two 

 velopment of the forest interests of the bulletins in cooperation with the Forest 

 State and the American Forestry Asso- Service have recently been published 

 ciation is endeavoring to arouse interest on the wood using industries of the 

 throughout the State in the measure. State, and on the management of short- 

 Probably the first State in the Union to leaf pine. 



begin exploiting the forests and still A bill to create the office of State 

 ranking sixth as a lumber producing Forester under the direction of the 

 State, Virginia has never given any State Geological Commission was re- 

 special care to the conservation and cently introduced into the Virginia 

 improvement of her forest resources, legislature by Hon. J. G. Blackburn 

 The best available information shows Smith, patron of the bill in the Senate, 

 that fifteen million acres, or half of the The bill has received much favorable 

 State, are in forest, and no other State comment from all parts of the State, 

 has more magnificent forests, yet few from timber owners, lumbermen and 

 States have done less to preserve this allied interests. A public hearing was 

 great resource, that stands next to held in the Hall of the House of Dele- 

 agriculture in value of products and gates on Wednesday evening, February 

 labor, in the State. 25, before a joint session of the Com- 

 The agricultural bill has provided in mittees on Mining and Agriculture of 

 the past that the Commissioner of both houses. The hearing was well 

 Agriculture shall investigate the forest attended and much interest was shown, 

 resources of the State and recommend Among those who spoke in fayor of 



