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Park Commission cooperated and allowed each child 

 who desired to plant his trees in one of the city parks 

 to do so, and tag it with his name. The result was the 

 purchase and planting of 14,000 fruit trees by the 

 children. 



In the San Diego District of California, out of 

 twenty-six clubs, nine have taken up the study of 

 forestry : Three have been tree-planting, and the San 

 Diego Clubs have raised $5,000 to improve their 1,400 

 acre park. Beaufort, S. C., reports twenty-five miles 

 of clear hard-shell road, generously provided with 

 young shade trees, and a Delaware club has planted 

 an avenue of trees one mile long, reaching from one 

 town to another. The Massachusetts clubs are giving 

 valuable assistance in fighting the brown tail and gipsy 

 moth. The women of Salem have aroused public 

 interest and the children have gathered and burned 

 375,000 moth nests, and adjacent towns are following 

 Salem's example. Salem's latter-day burnings are to 

 be commended ! 



A member from Minnesota said to me, "You women 

 had so much to do with the repeal of the 'Dead and 

 Down Timber Act,' under which the Chippewa Reserve 

 was administered prior to the application of the Morris 

 law, that you ought to tell, sometime during the Con- 

 gress, the story of finding the lamp, to show how trees 

 were brought under the 'dead and down' provision." 

 To make sentiment for the repeal of the bill the Min- 

 nesota club women planned an excursion to Leech 

 Lake, which is within the reserve. The lumbermen 

 in Minnesota are not all converted to conservative 

 forestry, and gallantry sometimes is forgotten when 

 "so many board feet measure" enter into the proposi- 

 tion. Our party numbered about fifty, and included 

 Miss Dock, a member of the Pennsylvania Forestry 



