. Conservation. Forests and forestry. 1908 MEMBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS 231 Prizes for Essays Mrs. Ruth H. Spray, of Salida, Colorado, wrote that the women's club in that city offered prizes last year to school children for the best essay on trees. This is one good way to inter- est the young people. Help of Two Kinds A new member from San Diego, California, sends his dues and says: "This is the only mite I can contribute to a public business policy that I feel sure goes to the accomplishment of much good. I send also list of names, as ; These two mites of help may appear sma
. Conservation. Forests and forestry. 1908 MEMBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS 231 Prizes for Essays Mrs. Ruth H. Spray, of Salida, Colorado, wrote that the women's club in that city offered prizes last year to school children for the best essay on trees. This is one good way to inter- est the young people. Help of Two Kinds A new member from San Diego, California, sends his dues and says: "This is the only mite I can contribute to a public business policy that I feel sure goes to the accomplishment of much good. I send also list of names, as ; These two mites of help may appear small to some people, but such cooperation on the part of many is what makes a movement go. The Silver Streams No Longer Flow Mrs. E. M. Eno Hu- mason, of New Brit- ain, Conn., writes that she hopes we may be permitted to see the results that will be accomplished by irrigation and forestry on our sandy deserts and uncultivated lands in the Western States. No other improvements that can be made in our country will show greater benefit than what has. already been done by these two kinds of effort. From a soil rich in itself, but waste for want of water, irrigation combined with forestry brings health and wealth, together with a country beautiful to pass through. In our Eastern States, she adds, we see the result of the disappearance of much of our forests; the silver streams no longer flow, and the larger rivers decrease in size and power. Paintings of Trees Mr. R. M. Shurtleff writes from New York that the New Hampshire Society, to which he belongs, is very much interested in the work of the American Forestry Association. Mr. Shurtleff is an artist, and has painted the forests of the Adirondacks for forty years. His painting of a tree in his own woods is on exhibition in the Corcoran Gallery at Washington un- der the title "The First ;. Young black walnut near Linden, Indiana—The walnuts were scattered thickly in a potato patch and cultivated in, and then allowed t
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