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THE DYING TREE. 



Ah. it is sadiltMiiiig to see a beautiful 

 ami stately tree in process of decay; it 

 took years to reach its height, ami then 

 there fell a deadly blight that ate its 

 heart away. It seems to know it's in the 

 soup, for all its leaves and branches droop, 

 'tis a despairing thing; and in the zephyr 

 or the gale it seems to moan and sigh and 

 wail, when it should dance ami sing. 

 There's nothing nobler than a tree, there's 

 naught that more appeals to me, and oh, 

 it makes me hot to think such stately 

 things must die, because some derned old 

 worm or lly has given it dry rot. And in 

 our towns a million trees are dying of some 

 punk disease imparted in that way; great 

 elms that pleased our pas and mas are 

 crumbling to the ground because such 

 pests we do not slay. A little hustling out 

 of doors might save the threatened syca- 

 mores, the locusts and the elms; so let us 

 gird our loins today, and spray our friends 

 the trees, and slay the worm that over- 

 whelms. If you would sit supinely by and 

 see a splendid shade tree die, and never 

 lift a haml, if you would rise no doleful 

 Bound, when trees are dying all around, 

 you surely should be canned. 



WALT \rAF:0>r. 



Maine has instalieil twenty steel towers 

 with lookout lunisi's on top as jiart of tho 

 State forest protective systeni in the forest 

 districts of the State. 



A iiundier of prominent citizens of 

 Waterloo County jiave purchased a block 

 of lifty acres of pine wooils to prevent it 

 being cut, as it is one of the few remain- 

 ing jdeces of forest in the county. Just 

 how tills can be made a public possession 

 lias not vet been decided. 



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Canadian Forestry Association 



T~HE Canadian Forestry Association is an inflcju-ndcnt organization 

 of patriotic citizens, which has for its object tiir liig;iiesl (h'- 

 \elopnK'nt of the soil and resources of Canada by urf^inp; govern- 

 ments, municipalities and owners generally to devote each acre to 

 that for which it is best suited, and j)articularly to keep und«'r forest 

 those soils fitted only to grow trees. 



The ]\Iembership Fee is one dollar per year. Members receive 

 free of anj- additional charge the Auiuial Iteport and Canadian 

 Forestry Journal. 



Application for menbership ma}' Ijc made as below: — 



Canadian Forestry Association, 



Journal Building, Ottawa, Canada. 



Gentlemen :— / desire to become a viemher of the Canadian 

 Forestry Association and herewith enclose One Dollar member- 

 ship fee. 



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