(310 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



T\vo accredited delegates from the movements and the activities of their 



North Carolina Forestry Association friends. Harrison H. Morse is the edi- 



attended the midsummer meeting of the tor, Harry P. Howes the manager, and 



American Forestry Association at Dr. H. D. House the general repre- 



Chautauqua, N. Y. Both delegates are sentative. The magazine is published 



very prominent members of the Worn- at Albany. 

 en's Clubs in the State, Mrs. T. AY. 



Lingle, of Davidson, being Chairman The Forest Service has issued to 



of the Social Service Department of the automobilists of Arizona and New 



State Federation, and Miss Elizabeth Mexico- a letter calling their attention 



Schwarberg, of Southern Pines, is late to the fact that last year Arizona's 



Chairman of the Department of Library share of the National forest revenues 



Extension and President of the South- was $140,: 49.94 and New Mexico's 



ern Pines Civic Club. The latter writes share was $53,109.84, the fund being 



that they greatly enjoyed what they used for the maintenance of roads and 



heard at the Forestry meetings. She schools. These receipts come from the 



says : ''The importance of doing things sale of mature timber and the grazing 



in'the interest of forestry was more and o f stock. ( )bviously as the automobil- 



more impressed upon us. If North j s ts benefit by the improvement in the 



Carolina is to hold her own, she must roads, and as forest fires annually de- 



maintain her forests; and, if people stroy stock range and both young and 



only knew more about the cause, more mature timber, it is of direct interest to 



would be done to further it. After all, the automobilists to see that the forests 



it is what we do that counts, and I am are protected against fires. As sixty 



going to talk forestry and do what I p er ce nt of these fires are attributed to 



can in our town to plant trees and pre- carelessness, the automobilists can do 



vent forest fires. The leaders in this much to guard against them. 

 line of work are a capable set of men 



and the cause is bound to succeed.' 5 The well . known firm of C onrad Ap- 



pel, which deals at Darmstadt, Ger- 



The Department of Commerce has many, in wholesale forest and agricul- 



announced the completion of plans by tural seeds, celebrated the 12,"ith anni- 



the secretaries of commerce and agri- versary of its establishment in June. 



culture whereby these two departments Since the day the firm started it has 



will combine in- a constructive study of always been in the hands of the same 



the supply and exploitation of timber of family, Mr. Ludwig Heyn, the present 



the United States, which they declare so le proprietor, being the great-grand- 



has now become one of the big con- son o f Mr. Johann Conrad Appel, the 



servation and industrial problems. In founder of the house. The business was 



the opinion of the secretaries one of started in 1789 and has enjoyed a long 



the conditions which make this study of anc [ prosperous career, being at the 



immediate importance to the public at present time known all over the world. 



large is the fact that the United States is The firm claims to have the largest 



now reducing its stock of stumpage, coning establishments in the world. 

 estimated at 3,000,000,000,000 feet, at 



the rate of more than 60,000,000,000 ^ summgr ke terms haye be _ 



__ gun at the Georgia forest school. One 



man is putting in his practice term at 



The Biltmorcan, an attractive quar- his father's sawmill. ^ One is working 



terly magazine devoted to news about at a sawmill in Cob County. Four are 



graduates of the Biltmore Forest preparing a topographic map, estimate 



School, appeared during June and will of stand, and working plan report for 



doubtless serve as a tie to bind the a tract in Habersham County. 



friendships formed in school days and men are camping in a cabin in 



to keep the graduates informed of the woods, and they report that they ar 



