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OREST LEAVES reaches its readers late because the issue was held to give to the members of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association the record of the Annual Meeting, but we feel that this delay will be more than offset by having in the hands of our readers the reports showing the work of the Association.

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THE assembling of the Fifty-Ninth Congress in Washington has brought into notice items of interest to all connected with the forestry movement. President Roosevelt's message treats of the Forestry Service, and also approves of the transfer of the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove, The attention of Nurserymen and others is called to the advantages California, to the custody of the general governof FOREST LEAVES as an advertising medium. Rates will be furnished on application.

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Law, Hon, W. N. Ashman, Chairman; Henry Budd, Charles Independently of the desirability of protecting

Hewett, and John A. Siner.

Publication, John Birkinbine, Chairman; F. L. Bitler, Alfred S. Haines, Alfred Paschall, and Harrison Souder.

Work, Mrs. Brinton Coxe. Chairman; Mrs. George T. Heston, Miss E. L. Lundy, Mrs. John P. Lundy, William S. Kirk, and Abraham S. Schropp.

County Organization, Samuel Marshall, Chairman: Eugene Ellicott, James C. Haydon, Dr. J. Newton Hunsberger, and Richard Wood.

OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATION, 1012 WALNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA.

the sections named, we believe the forestry movement would be benefited by having, in the more closely settled portions of the country, opportunities to see the effect of government control upon these reservations. While the United States has a number of important forest reserves in the western

portion of the country, the Philippines, etc., there are none in the Eastern States, which surely requires as much attention as other sections, and while we would not urge the creation of these reserves merely from a sectional standpoint, we believe that their location can be used to decided advantage in advancing interest in them. In fact, if there is a weak point in regard to the Appalachian Reserve as planned, it is in its limitation, and we feel satisfied that the more of the Appalachian region which can be covered by it, the greater will be the co-operation which may be expected from the people of the country.

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ON January 10, 11 and 12, 1906, a Canadian Forestry Convention will be held at Ottawa, Canada, under the auspices of the Canadian Forestry Association, to which the various Dominion and Provincial officials, representatives of Lumbermen's Associations, Boards of Trade, Railroads, Universities, etc., have been invited, and the United States National and State Forestry Bu reaus and Associations are requested to send delegates. The call has been issued by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, and we wish our neighboring country the fullest measure of success in this convention, the object of which is to discuss various subjects in connection with forestry on those vast areas which may yield important future sources of timber supply.

The President of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association will be gratified to issue commissions to any members who will attend this Convention as representing the Association.

Narrative of the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association.

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THE Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association was held at 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, on Monday, December 11th, at 3.30 P.M., President John Birkinbine in the chair.

The Presidential Address and the Reports of Council, the General Secretary and Treasurer were presented, and will be found on other pages of this issue.

The following resolution was presented and unanimously adopted by the Association :

Resolved, That the Pennsylvania Forestry Association endorse the action of the American Forest Congress in favor of the establishment of national forest reserves in the Southern Appala- | chian Mountains and in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and earnestly urges the immediate passage of bills for these purposes.

The invitation of the Canadian Forestry Association to members of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association to attend the Forestry Convention to be held at Ottawa, Canada, on January 10th, 11th and 12th, was read.

Messrs. J. Franklin Meehan and Leonard Morse were appointed tellers, of the election, and, after counting the ballots, declared that the following officers were unanimously elected :—

President, John Birkinbine.
Vice-Presidents, Wm. S. Harvey,
James C. Haydon,
Albert Lewis,
Richard Wood.

General Secretary, Dr. Joseph T. Rothrock.
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. John P. Lundy.
Recording Secretary, F. L. Bitler.
Treasurer, Charies E. Pancoast.

COUNCIL.

At Large, Mrs. Brinton Coxe,
Dr. Alfred L. Elwyn,
Charles Hewett.

Adams County, C. E. Stahle.
Allegheny County, Wm. A. Baldwin,

Hon. Geo. W. Guthrie,

George M. Lehman,

Henry Phipps, Jr.,

Wm. Wade.

Armstrong County, R. M. Moore.
Beaver County, J. S. Duss.
Berks County, Mrs. George Brooke,
J. H. Sternbergh.

Blair County, Jos. S. Sillyman.
Bradford County, C. S. Maurice.
Bucks County, Mrs. Geo. T. Heston,
Alfred Paschall,

Dr. Howard Pursell.
Butler County, Wm. Campbell, Jr.
Cambria County, Hartley C. Wolle.
Cameron County, Charles F. Barclay.
Carbon County, M. S. Kemmerer.
Centre County, Prof. Wm. A. Buckhout.
Chester County, Henry T. Coates,
Alfred S. Haines,
Wm. S. Kirk,
Samuel Marshall.

Clarion County, Jos. M. Fox.
Clearfield County, John E. DuBois.
Clinton County, Wm. P. Mitchell.
Columbia County, John R. Townsend.
Crawford County, George Frank Brown.
Cumberland County, Frank C. Bosler.
Dauphin County, Miss Mira L. Dock,

E. C. Felton.
Delaware County, Samuel A. Crozer,
Charles Potts,
William Trimble,
Chas. S. Welles.

Elk County, N. T. Arnold.
Erie County, Isaac B. Brown.
Fayette County, Hon. Nathaniel Ewing.
Forest County, Samuel D. Irwin.
Franklin County, Geo. H. Wirt.

Huntingdon County, Mrs. William Dorris.

Jefferson County, S. B. Elliott.

Lackawanna County, G. Edgar Dean, M.D.,

Hon. L. A. Watres.

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Wm. L. Du Bois,
Henry Howson,
J. Rodman Paul,
Albert B. Weimer,
Dr. W. P. Wilson.

Pike County, Arthur M. Adams.
Potter County, Arthur B. Mann.
Schuylkill County, Wm. L. Sheafer,

Heber S. Thompson.
Somerset County, H. D. Moore, M.D.
Sullivan County, Hon. B. W. Jennings.
Susquehanna County, Edgar A. Turrell.
Union County, Andrew Albright Leiser.
Venango County, James Denton Hancock.
Warren County, Hon. H. H. Cumings.
Washington County, Wm. Parkison Warne.
Wayne County, Alonzo T. Searle.
Westmoreland County, Hon. Lucien W. Doty.
Wyoming County, James W. Piatt.
York County, Dr. I. C. Gable.

On motion, adjourned.

Report of the Council of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association.

SIGNIFICANT feature of progress in the forestry movement in Pennsylvania is that the amount of land now purchased by the State for forest reserves, or in the process of purchase, reached a total of 700,000 acres, as against 500,000 acres, on June 1, 1904. These reserves are situated in twenty-three counties. The greater portion of this acreage is in the mountainous central portion of the State, although some large tracts in the northeastern section have also been set apart for this purpose.

The Department of Forestry, under the efficient management of Mr. Robert S. Conklin, which has the control of these reserves, has been preparing for the future, and as soon as the first class of young men now being educated at the State Forestry Academy have been graduated, will be in position to more actively prosecute the reforestration and utilization of the various reserves, actively supplementing the valuable results already attained on the Mont Alto tract. In addition, the Commissioner of Forestry, as ex officio member of the lately created Water Supply Commission, brings these two important and closely related branches in touch.

At the meeting of the State Legislature eight forestry bills were favorably acted upon and approved by the Governor; briefly these were:

Act 50. Granting titles for vacant and unappropriated lands, specifying the price to be paid for the same, and their conveyance to the State Forestry Reservation Commission where desirable for forest culture or forest preservation.

Act 65. Increased the compensation paid to constables acting as ex officio fire wardens from 15 cents to 25 cents per hour, and the penalty for starting forest fires from $10 to $20.

Act 81. Provided for a yearly fixed charge of 5 cents per acre on all lands acquired by the Commonwealth for forest reserves, 3 cents being for the benefit of the schools, and 2 cents for the roads, of the respective townships.

Act 88. Amended a former law to encourage the preservation of forests, and allows a rebate of 80 per cent. of the taxes on tracts of not more than 50 acres, provided there is on each acre not less than 50 trees at least 8 inches in diameter at a height of 6 feet above the ground, provided such rebate does not exceed 45 cents per acre. Act 114. Confers on the Commissioner of For

In Pennsylvania the different counties, from time to time, advertise lands for sale for unpaid taxes, and such as are suitable for forest reserves are bid in by the Forestry Department. The question arises, why are the taxes not paid, and the following is given as an illustration. A tract of 1100 acres, partly lumbered, was valued, for taxation purposes, in 1902, at $2.22 per acre, and the taxes for that year were 10 mills for county, 10 mills for road, 13 mills for school and 8 mills for poor purposes. Even seated and highly productive land could not long bear a tax-estry and the Forestry Reservation Commission ation of 41 mills, and as soon as the marketable timber is removed the lands are abandoned.

the right to give to boroughs and other municipalities the privilege of impounding water on the

forest reserves, also of maintaining and operating the fall selected by the Superintendent of Public pipe lines.

Act 179. Provides for a rebate on land planted with not less than 300 forest trees per acre, or the same number of sprout trees, amounting to 80 per cent. of the taxes, provided such rebate does not exceed 45 cents per acre. The rebate to continue for a period of 35 years.

Act 363. Made an appropriation of $10,000 for the maintenance of the State Forestry Academy, while Act 431 appropriated $15,000 for the South Mountain Camp Sanatorium.

While most of these laws are commendable, exception might be taken to the imposition of a tax of 5 cents per acre on the forest reserves. While this may seem a small amount, it is, in reality, at the price paid by the State for its lands, a higher tax-rate than is levied in some of our large cities, and there is an incentive to expend the 2 cents per acre given to the township road supervisors elsewhere than on highways in the reserves. It would have seemed better to have had this money expended under the direction of the Forestry Reservation Commission on roads within the reserves, these roads acting as an object lesson, and, in fact, provision for these had already been made to a certain extent in an existing law. This would still leave open the question of whether lands which are a benefit to the Commonwealth at large and owned by the State, should be any more liable to taxation than lands and buildings held by the State for other public purposes, especially as when the timber is sold a portion of the profits accrue to the county in which said reserves are located.

Early in January a Forestry Congress was held at Washington, D. C., at which representatives of the National and State forestry departments, State and National forestry associations, the lumbermen, the railroads, the mining industries, etc., were present. The Pennsylvania Forestry Association was represented by full the quota allowed it (more would have been present had the allotment been larger), its delegates taking a prominent part in the proceedings. A number of valuable papers were read and discussed. It was a notable assembly, and, as the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, said near the end of the session, was the most important, representative and influential body he had ever seen assembled in Washington. Such a statement emphasizes the wide interest in the protection and preservation of the forests. The mutual exchange of views on this occasion did much to further the motive presented, viz. : "to preserve the forests by and through use."

The Arbor Days, those in the spring fixed by the proclamation of the Governor, and that in

Instruction, were well observed, particularly in the schools, and the interest aroused in the minds of the children will bear fruit in later years.

The railroads require each year an enormous amount of timber, principally for cross-ties, and are realizing the gravity of the situation in reference to a future supply. The Pennsylvania Railroad, in 1904, had planted for this purpose in this State 280,530 trees, expecting to treble that amount this year. Other railroad companies are contemplating, or have already started, similar plantations.

The Council regrets to chronicle the serious loss of members sustained by the Association through death, among them two members of Council, Col. T. B. Kennedy, of Chambersburg, and J. Dundas Lippincott, of Philadelphia, the latter being Chairman of the Membership Committee.

While sixteen new members have been added to the roll of the Association, there have been deaths, resignations, etc., the names of active members on the roll December 1st being 1537. It is hoped that the friends of forestry will aid in increasing the membership and influence of the Association.

The thanks of the Association are extended to the public press and the Women's Clubs for their generous help. F. L. BITLEr,

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Recording Secretary.

Presidential Address.

N these days of strenuosity, when great organizations are conceived and installations of magnitude carried out rapidly, it may seem unusual to refer to progress covering an interval as great as two decades, and yet there are many reasons for congratulation at the advance of the forestry movement since the Pennsylvania Forestry Association was first conceived, twenty years ago.

The report of the Council states that Pennsylvania now has an aggregate of about 1100 square miles of forest reserves, an area approximating that of the State of Rhode Island, or two-thirds of that of the State of Delaware, and yet this large acreage represents but 21⁄2 per cent. of the area of the State of Pennsylvania. The State forest reserves can, therefore, be greatly augmented, for those now held, added to the forestcovered areas maintained by individuals or corporations, do not approach the proportion of forest which is considered as desirable, namely, from 20 to 25 per cent.

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