Feb. 15, 1908.I 
OREST AND STREAM. 
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National Sportsman’s Association. 
The officers and committees were elected at the annual 
meeting of the Junior Branch of the National Sports¬ 
men s Association, held recently at the Plaza Hotel 
New i ork. ’ 
I here was much interest manifested in the .22-caliber 
rifle shootmg contest, to be held by the Association at 
the forthcoming Motor Boat and Sportsmen's Show, at 
Madison Square Garden, Feb. 20 to March 7. This con¬ 
test is for schoolboys only; positions standing, and 
prone; distance 50ft. The contests are as follows- 
1. Shooting contest, open to members of the Sports¬ 
mens Association, each member to shoot ten shots in 
succession, highest score to win. 
2. Best five shots, standing, open to anybody not over 
eigh een years, attending school in the United States. 
High schools private schools, military academies ami 
elementary schools are included. 8 ana 
3. Best ten shots standing open to any boy attend¬ 
ing a military academy, school or institute. 
4. rive best shots standing, open to any boy attend 
ing a summer camp or camps in the United States 
p, .. shooting, open to high schools of New York 
Philadelphia and other cities within a radius of 100 miles 
of New York city. Five-man teams. Five shots stand¬ 
ing and five shots prone. sutnu 
(j. Team shooting, open to all military academies for 
the military school championship. Teams of five bovs 
to compete. Five shots standing and five prone 
United P S?ates? n ‘° aU amateur raarksraen ™ the 
No entrance fee in any contest. Each shot one cent. 
HYGIENIC VALUE OF FORESTS. 
To the majority of people trees have no other 
\alue but that of wood producers. There are 
unquestionably also a large and growing num¬ 
ber who regard trees from an aesthetic point 
of view, and value them for the aid they afford 
in rendering the landscape effective. Few how¬ 
ever, have ever realized what would be the sani¬ 
tary condition of the world if all the trees were 
lemoved, or have considered how important an 
influence the woodlands have upon the regula- 
p° n j says tiie Boston Transcript. 
Bernard Palissy realized this, and so did 
rernando Colon, who so long ago as 1540 de¬ 
clared that the rains in Madeira, the. Azores and 
: j Y ananes > become rarer since the trees 
had been cut down. Humboldt, Boussingault 
and Lecquerel have each in turn raised a warn- 
mg voice against reckless deforestation, and 
each have demonstrated in a most conclusive 
manner that without trees there will be little 
rain, and consequently a falling off in natural 
irrigation. 
On the continent there are districts where the 
principal rivers have decreased in volume since 
the clearing of the woods near their sources 
and there is at the present time a small tribu- 
ar) o the order, which within living memory 
regularly turned three or four mills in its 
course, which is now absolutely dry except after 
severe rainstorms. In'the south of France, in 
th, y ’ AIgena ’ Morocco and all around 
he Mediterranean, the same thing is being ex- 
penenced. 1 he rain instead of falling in 
moderate showers as formerly, now comes in 
' o ent gushes with long periods of drouth be- 
Ih f consequence is that the grasses 
unci other low growing plants perish. Their 
roots wither away and the soil no longer held 
ogether by their fibres is washed away by the 
mtoTA 31 ,''? 1 ? 111 • St ° rmS ’ and carried dawn 
' A th .t bed of th . e nvers - Countries which were 
H granaries of the world, on which a 
ESTS.'S**" tlmved ' are 
T scblef wr ought by wholesale clearance 
/ woods has awakened attention in many of 
mdermTi neS name f' and re P lantin g has been 
•ommimiu °4 3 3rge scale by individuals. 
.••’ unities and governments with the most de- 
nade e th? U A here such attempts have been 
r 11° c innate has become less extreme, rain 
as tallen more uniformly and public health 
idal ff r °r d 'r In Northwest India the benc- 
narLd tS ° f tree P la nting have been most 
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SPORTSMAN. 
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