EDUCATIVE. 



FOREST ORGANIZATIONS. 



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Forestry is now recognized by the general government as well as by the 

 governments of a number of states. With active forestry associations in 

 Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Minnesota, Kentucky and Colorado, and 

 organizations closely allied in interest in other states; with the forestry 

 division of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, seeking to dis- 

 seminate knowledge as to arboriculture and the utilization of various 

 woods; with special commissions studying the forest problems of Pennsyl- 

 vania, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Michigan, added 

 to a widespread influence resulting from the excellent exhibition of forest 

 products and forest development in connection with the World's Columbian 

 Exposition at Chicago, we see much of encouragement. To these may be 

 added the public meetings of the American Forestry Association, the Penn- 

 sylvania Forestry Association, and the other kindred societies, the Forestry 

 Congress held in Chicago in October, the growing observance of Arbor 

 Day in various states, and the interest exhibited by those who are educat- 

 ing the youth of to-day, making a resume which marks real progress. 

 Forest Leaves. 



By the educational instrumentality of the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion, not only has a rational forest policy been formulated, but a congres- 

 sional enactment secured, March 1, 1891, whereby the President has pro- 

 claimed a series of forest reservations, located in the Rocky Mountain and 

 Pacific regions, aggregating over 17,000,000 acres. Within a decade scien- 

 tific forestry has gained such an impetus, the United States civil engineers 

 and the officials of the Weather Bureau are experimenting to know what 

 part the forests perform in precipitation and water distribution. The 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science is actively cooperat- 

 ing, and so the horticultural societies of different states. Many influen- 

 tial monthlies, weeklies and dailies are heartily engaged in the good work. 

 Public sentiment is pressing Congress to do something more definite and 

 positive to control the forest cover of the United States. 



ARBOR DAY. 



Arbor Day was. originated by Hon. J. Sterling Morton, secretary of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, who, in 1872, then governor of 

 Nebraska, introduced a resolution at a meeting of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture, which was unanimously adopted, setting apart the 10th day of 



