sition in Michigan, owing to the conditions of demand 

 and the immense area of cheap lands that could be 

 utilized in a movement of this kind. 



Mr. Walter C. Winchester, of Grand, 

 A Rapids, expressed his satisfaction in 



Lumberman's becoming identified with the Forestry 

 Confession Association, saying that he pleaded 



guilty to being one of the tree butchers 

 and had been a party to the devastation of large areas 

 of splendid timber. He regretted the slipshod meth- 

 ods of the earlier lumbermen, and was impressed strongly 

 with the importance of the later movement which util- 

 ized what had long been considered waste products, in 

 the manufacture of commercial commodities of great 

 value. The margins in the purchase of hardwood 

 lands for lumbering purposes were largely in the utili- 

 zation of the waste. He didn't know how he could be 

 of help to the Association, but his attitude of mind was 

 all right, and he would willingly give time and assist- 

 ance to any plan which had for its purpose the growing 

 of timber to supply the great demand. 



The afternoon closed with a brief word from Presi- 

 dent C. W. Garfield, of the Michigan Forestry Com- 

 mission, who said, substantially: 



' ' I have talked trees and forestry in season and out 

 of season, and buttonholed men and women so much 

 upon this subject, that I have the name of a forestry 

 crank, and I am proud of it. I think my forestry in- 

 telligence dates from the time I was 

 A Word three years old, when I assisted my 



From a father in planting a honey locust tree 



Forestry in our front yard in Wauwatosa, Wis. 



Crank I have been trying to be a tree-planter 



ever since. After I became secretary 

 of the Horticultural Society, it seemed to me that one 

 of the things that ought to be taken up in connection 

 with horticulture was this matter of forestry in its re- 

 lationship to horticulture and agriculture. And now 

 when we are gathered together in this first meeting of 

 the kind in the State of Michigan, I say it is a historic 

 meeting, it is the beginning of the solution of this prob- 

 lem, and you will be proud to be a part of it. It 

 seems to me that there will go out of this convention 

 an atmosphere which will pervade the whole State of 

 Michigan." 



Evening Session 



At the opening of the evening ses- 

 Agricultural sion in Ryerson Library, a few mo- 



College ments were taken by Prof. Bogue, of 



Forestry the Agricultural College, who spoke in 



some detail of the experiments at that 

 institution in growing forest trees from the seed, ex- 

 plaining the handling of conifers and the success which 

 had been attained in this preliminary field of forestry. 

 He exhibited seedlings of various kinds, showing the 

 length of growth in one to two years. He spoke of 

 the College woods and the plans which had been worked 

 out with reference to making them useful not only as 

 an arboretum, but as an example of forestry. 



The general subject of the evening, The Business 

 Management of Michigan's Large Holdings of Delin- 

 quent Tax Lands, was introduced by 

 Tax Prof. Filibert Roth, of Ann Arbor. 



Land The Professor gave some startling fig- 



Discussion ures concerning the volume of these 



lands, and compared their quality 

 with those in Continental Europe which had been set 

 aside for permanent forest purposes, saying that the 

 quality of soil was about the same, not being fitted 



