ment of principles upon which the organization should 

 be founded. The chairman named as 

 Committees the first committee, Messrs. Geo. 



Named P. Wanty, Edwin A. Wildey, Wm. H. 



Rose, J. S. Porter, W. I. Latimer; and 

 as a committee of resolutions, Messrs. Geo. B. Horton r 

 Walter C. Winchester, Chas. E. Bassett, Saml. M. 

 Lemon, W. J. Beal. The chairman then stated that he 

 should take the liberty now to call on various gentle- 

 men to express briefly their thought with regard to the 

 necessity of a Michigan Forestry Association in our 

 State. 



Upon his call, Dr. Beal responded and gave a res- 

 ume of his knowledge of the early forest conditions of 



Michigan during his boyhood and the 

 Dr. Beal gradual changes which had come about 



Speaks through the clearing of the land for 



farms and the subsequent rapid elision 

 of timber by the lumberman. He spoke of the early 

 agitation of forestry in Michigan Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, and the establishment of a sort of section of for- 

 estry in the department of botany at the Agricultural 

 College, saying that it was practically due to his inter- 

 est in forest matters that the Board of Agriculture took 

 this action. In connection with his botanical work, 

 he had gathered a large amount of material for a for- 

 estry museum and started an arboretum, giving some 

 class instruction and speaking to the people at various 

 conventions, upon forestry subjects. He had been 

 pleased, subsequently, to have an independent de- 

 partment of forestry organized at the College, thus re- 

 lieving him of this particular responsibility and carry- 

 ing on the work in a more systematic way. He 

 expressed his satisfaction in being able to be a part of 

 the initial movement which should lead to the organi- 

 zation of a forestry association in the State. 



Mr. Samuel H. Ranck, of Ryerson Library, called 

 attention to the section of forestry in the library, and 

 particularly to the beautiful set of volumes, The 



American Sylva, edited and published 

 Ryerson by Sargent, which had been given re- 



Library cently to the library by Harvey J. 



Invitation Hollister, of this city, and invited the 



members of the Convention to be per- 

 fectly at home in the library and in the use of the for- 

 estry section during the days of the Convention. 



Mr. Geo. B. Horton, of Fruit Ridge, Master of the 

 State Grange, responded to the call of the chair in a 

 very interesting talk upon the useful- 

 Master ness of the farm woodlot in connection 

 G. B. Morton's with the agriculture of our State. 

 Remarks He expressed an interest in the prob- 

 lem of the northern cut over lands, 

 but said that his larger interest lay in the woodlot as a 

 factor of Southern Michigan. He had tried at farmers' 

 clubs, meetings of the Grange, and other rural con- 

 ventions, to awaken an interest in farm forestry, 

 and had found many things in the way of a success- 

 ful promotion of practical forestry, one being our 

 method of taxation, which was really a premium on 

 cutting off the forests, rather than preserving them. 

 While he had no clearly defined method in mind, 

 he hoped that this Association would crystallize some 

 form of legislation which would be protective in its 

 leading features, and which would be an inducement 

 to have the average farmer in the southern part of 

 the State make his woodlot a prominent feature in 

 his farming methods. 



Mrs. Francis King, of Alma, Mich., was invited to 

 say a word and she responded in a very frank way, ex- 



