EDITORIAL 



899 



In Texas the lumbermen have already the damage that is now likely to be done 



passed resolutions calling upon the each year. The proposed State Board 



members of the next Legislature to give of Forestry will, if created, formulate 



earnest consideration to a forestry bill plans for carrying on practical forestry 



and now they are aiding in the org; u liza- throughout the state and will exercise 



tion of a State Forestry Association, supervision of all matters of forest 



the special object of which is to work policy and protection, 



for state conservation. In Texas the An important feature of the work 



productive timber area amounts to would be the protection afforded against 



about 17,000,000 acres, or more than 

 three times the total area of Mass- 

 achusetts. In recent years timber has 

 been so lavishly cut in the state that the 

 extinction of the lumber industry was 



forest fires by systemizcd fire patrol 

 work, and the education of the put) lie 

 in ways and means to guard against 

 such fires. The Federal Government 

 would also cooperate with the state 



in sight, and none realized it better than in this fire p rote ctive work. At present 



some of the leading lumbermen there. Qnl three Southern states> Kentuckv, 



Another danger has already been ex Maryland and West Virginia are receiv- 



penenced the increase in the number { guch eration . 



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An effort will be made to secure an 



and the destructiveness of river floods 



owing to the excessive cutting of trees 



in tffp nVpr hnt.tnm IrmHs and on the appropriation of $20,000 to carry on 



this state forestry work. It is expected 

 that a state forest reserve will be 

 established in east Texas and one in 

 west Texas and perhaps a national 



in the river bottom lands and on the 

 watersheds. 



A state forestry law would provide 

 for replanting and the encouragement 

 of reforestation on such areas and this 

 would in some years largely prevent 



forest reserve in central Texas. 



CALHOUN COUNTY, Mich- the road. The projectors of this plan 



igan, is to follow the example say that it is eminently practical and 



of other counties in various we hope that it will prove so. There 



states and attempt roadside are 112 miles of road in the county and 



planting of trees for the dual purpose if the trees planted along these bear 



of beautifying the roads and also of f ru jt the small boys of the county will 



protecting them, for such trees not only certainly be in hearty favor of the idea, 



serve as windshields and minimize the whether enough fruit to sell is obtained 



effect of winds blowing off the loose f rom these trees however is not of prime 



surface but they also add to the lite of importancej the fact rem ains that trees 



roads by aiding to retain in them neces arg tQ bg lanted and the rQad ^ ^ 



^,?^a?SfiSte3?;SE county residents both benefited Per- 



others in deciding to plant fruit trees haps the day mil come when most of the 



instead of shade trees, with the Utopian roads throughout the country wil 



notion that when the trees bear fruit bordered by trees, and everybody will 



the fruit may be sold and the money wonder why in the name of all that is 



thus derived "be used in the up keep of sensible, it was not always so. 



A PROGRESSIVE citizen of Rock- 

 / \ ford, Illinois, G. J. Boehland, is 

 / \ good enough to advise the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association of 

 the success of a plan he had for inspiring 

 in the school children of Winnebago 

 County, in which Rockford is situated, 

 a love of trees . Last spring he presented 



to each pupil in the city, county, and 

 parochial schools a young tree to be 

 planted wherever the children liked, 

 and to each school a large tree to be 

 planted in its playground. A total of 

 11,800 trees were thus given away by 

 Mr. Boehland and now, six months 

 after, he takes pride in reporting that a 





