Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-02-08
Madison Feb

Madison, Feb !,
Tuesday evenings session ot the
horticultural and Forestry assotjauou
was devoted to forestry There was
good attendance, indicating much in
tercSt in the subject Il Was oreHed
With a discussion by Il s NoXic Of
Evansville, president of the State For
estry association, Mr., HoNie SPOKE Of
the recent failure to secure adequate
forestry legislation, and trusted the
measure was not dead, but sleeping.
lie recounted what had hocu done in
the state of New York in the way Of
forestry preservation, because the
matter had been early taken in hand.
Connecticut and some other New Eng
land states, he said, have today a for
est area. particularly OF hard wood.
equal to that Of Zoe years ago tie
gave the government credit for having
done, some good work in this line, but
said more was needed,
S. NJ, Owen. editor of the Farm,
Stock and Home of Minneapolis, and
eN-president of the Minnesota Forestry
association, spoke on the forest man
agcmcnt of the old world as compared
with American methods All Europe
is engaged he said, in a very earnest,
intelligent effort toward forest -prcscr-
walton. The timber of Europe is p o.
tCCtcd against vandalism of all sorts,
and the neglect on the pant Of our own
public officials is to be regretted, In
during the fourteenth century and they
are the first laws of the kind of which
we have any record The Swiss for
! cstry laws are very rigorous, There
is in switzerland, at Zurich, even 4 for
| cStry school whore are studied al sub
jets relating to the care and proc tion
of timber. There is no coal in Swift
! Zerland, and yet after the 0pcrati m of
GOO years of adequate forestry laws,
the country is exporting more timber
than is imported rhc United States,
ON the other hand, has gone ON in the
most reckless manner destroying the
the future. The vigorous exercise ON
the part Of the state of protective
measures, would be no violation of pri-
waite rights, he said. and it is SO re
demands of postcrity, seemed there 20
| be the first consideration Of the Swis !.
! a sacred. unscltish consideration. And
| Switzerland, though a very old coun-
before, and Switzerland in a measure
| typities all Europe. He deprecated IN
the strongest terms the wastCfnlncas
of our people in dealing with our m
| Der supplies. In early pioneer times
there was naturally an onmity between
man and the trees, later came another
enemy, greed when individuals began
cutting freely for commercial purpose ),
with no reference whatever to any
! consideration beyond that of selfish
ness Our waste of forests is one of
the greatest national crimes ever com
mittcd II is too late now to undo the
wrong THAT has been donC but thCra
is time to put stop 10 the devastation
that has gone on unhindorel for hun
droa years The coal supply, accor
ing to biologists, cannot last more
than 100 ycars:at most fhis can not
be regrown The forests can and tho
highest patriotism conceivable is the
planting Of trees not for ourselves but
for pOsterity.
Forestry, Horticultural and Lond-
scape Gardening was the subject of a
paper by Ernest Brunckcn Of Milwau-
E"c, secretary Of the stat associltiln.
He defined the functions Of the forester
and the landscape gardener. and took
exception TO some statements of Mr.
Owens, declaring that the lumbermcn
were not vandals that the forests
were there to cut, but should be cut in
rational manner His treatment Of
the subject was on the whole very sat
Isfactory.
A special meeting Of the association
will be held this morning at $3.50 In
the senate chamber The regular
morning session Of the hortculturists
will be at $50.