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Proposed Forestry Legislation? Prof. H. H. Chapman, Yale Forest 



School. 

 2 :45. What Practical Assistance Can the American Forestry Association Render 



to the Lumber Industry? R. S. Kellogg, Secretary Northern Hemlock 



and Hardwood Association. 

 3:15. What Can the American Forestry Association Do to Stimulate Private 



Forestry? Samuel N. Spring, Professor of Forestry at the New York 



State College of Agriculture at Cornell University. 

 3 :45 . What the American Forestry Association Can Do to Encourage the Use of 



Forests for Recreation. By Warren H. Miller, Editor of Field and Stream. 

 4:15. Adjourn. 

 4:30 to 6:30. Business Meeting of the Society of American Foresters. 



Evening, Charles F. Quincy Presiding 



7 $0. Dinner at the Hotel McAlpin. 



8 :00. What the American Forestry Association Might Do on the Pacific Coast 

 with Special Reference to the Proposed Meeting at the Panama-Pacific 

 Exposition. E. T. Allen, Forester of the Western Forestry and Con- 

 servation Association. 



8:30. What the American Forestry Association Might Do for Eastern and 

 Canadian Pulp and Paper Interests. George N. Ostrander, Glens Falls, 

 N. Y. 



8:50. What the American Forestry Association Can Do in Helping to Solve 

 Lumber Trade Problems. E. A. Sterling, Forest and Timber Engineer. 



9:10. What We Can All Do to Get Together. Speaker to be selected. 



THE FOREST RANGER'S PRAYER 



O LORD, grant that as I make this survey called Life I may find pleasant 

 camping-places; that the cool waters of congenial companionship may flow past 

 my tent door; that the woods of hardship wherein we must all walk be not too 

 heavily clad with the underbrush of hard luck; that the nettle called remorse 

 grows no K t too abundantly there; that there be springs of friendship and shade of 

 rest trees wherewith to refresh myself; that cooling breezes may blow sometimes 

 across my forehead and drive away the remembrance of wrong deeds done and 

 righteous deeds left undone; that as I lay out the logging-road of my life the curves 

 thereof be tangent to Thy will and the spirals be true ; that there be a down grade 

 from my will to Thine, and that the superelevation be correct so that as I swing 

 around the curve I may not leave the track that leads to Heaven. 



LORD, grant that when the appraisal of my life is computed it may not 

 exceed Thy original estimate; and, Lord, when I take an observation to obtain 

 my true bearing, grant that my transit be in perfect adjustment so that I shall 

 not deviate even so much as one second from the sight which Thou hast set at 

 the end of that long tangent which leads through the portals of gold into the 

 District where Thou art Chief Forester. I pray that when my road is built there 

 shall be no trails left unblazed and no dangerous rocks or trees above the cuts to 

 endanger the safety of any travelers over this route. 



LORD, in Thine infinite tenderness, mercy, and love so encompassing that 

 even I am included in Thy promise, listen to my prayer; and grant, finally, that 

 when I turn over my field notes to the Chief and sign mv last report He will say 

 "Well done!" 



AMEN. 



