The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-01-26

18th inst, with the following
members and visitors present FL
wood Balderston, r. T. Cameron.
M. G. Reeder, r. X. Rawlings, j.
p. Wilson, Jas. 81. Maxwell, f. r.
Cherry, j. 7. Grove, M. L. Thomp
son. Visitors-Lloyd Balderston,
George Balderston, John Rutter,
Rev. F. x. Moore, r. G. Terry,
Clifton Miller, G. l.. Thompson.
George Tyson, J. d. SINNERS, r.
B. Marshall, Robt. Kerr.
The meeting was called to order
with vic, president R. T. Cameron
in the chair. F. r. Cherry was
appointed secretary pro tenn.
Minutes of previous meeting were
read and approved.
A letter was read from DIR. j. |.
France stating he would be unable
to attend the meetings of the club
this winter on account of his legis-
lative duties at Annapolis and ex-
pressing his regret at being CON-
PEELED to miss any of the meetings.
On motion he was excused from
further attendance until his duties
would permit.
A. B. McVey said he had pur-
chased from the Indiana Agricnl-
tural College pair Of Duroc Jersey
pigs and would report on them later.
The subject of asking the Legis-
lature to appropriate funds for the
Agricultural College and Horticul-
tural Association was discussed.
Also the pending legislation on the
Hannah Oyster and Good Roads
bills, and the ACCESSIBILITY OF the
passage of compulsory education
law. The following resolutions
we're drafted by J. P. Wilson, M.
G. Reeder and J. T. Grove, COM
mittee appointed for that purpose,
and passed:
The measure known as the Hannah Oyster Bill
has been fully discussed before us and had our
unqualified support and we request our repre-
sentatives in the legislature to support it and
oppose all alterations or amendments intended to
weaken or nullify its purposes.
We believe that there are now some serious de-
fects in our public school law which tend to waste
fulness of funds that should be used to give more
thorough education to our children and that the
efforts of our best teachers should not be wasted
There should be some provision to secure more
regular and prompt attendance OF pupils and 1T
shall be the duty of each teacher to keep record
of school attendance and the pay shall be COM
puted only to cover those who have given at least
three months attendance.
This club endorses the claim of our State Horti
cultural society for the aid that they ask to pro-
mote and assist in developing these interests
that are second only to the more general agricul-
tural resource of Maryland.
The claim for a larger endowment for our State
Agricultural college we believe to be just one TO
keep this institution in efficient working condi-
ton commensurate with the dignity of Maryland.
The needs for protection and encouragement fol
forest growth, either on lands held in private
hands or in the now waste and mountainous lands
of our state have been called to our attention and
we favor the establishment of a State Board OF
Forestry to look after these interests We ask our
representatives in the legislature to give nsa State
Forestry law on the lines OF the measure in the
hands of Senator France.
In place of an essay by the host,
George Balderston read the follow
ing paper on forestry:
WHAT is FORESTRY?
In preparing paper upon this subject, the great
difficulty is to know, just what can be said. or
what branches of the subject can be touched upon
that are of most practical Importance to to
4ha UNITS IN he TINA at carh M allowed
for presenting such comprehensive subject.
Forestry in its broadest sense embraces all that
pertains to the production. growth and use Of
trees, whether for shade, timber fuel and these
again suggest so many purposes in which wood is .
necessity, that only few can now be mentioned
The time was not SO very distant in the past.
when the timber growing upon our land, was
considered as an encumbrance, to be cleared off
In the shortest possible time, to make way tor the
cultivation OF the soil in crops of grain and grass.
except the iarmer'e wood lot. of sufficient size to
supply iuel, with fencing and building material
for the use of farm. market for the pro
ducts of the forest was generally distant as to
make the lumber of but little value such, but
the needs of our increasing population have so
multiplied the demands, and science has discov-
cred so many new uses for wood that it is now q
serious problem where it is all to come from.
Our rail roads now demand constant and in
creasing supply of cross ties, our telegraph and
telephone lines being extended in every direc-
ton demanding timber suitable for poles and now
the paper mill comes in and demands vast forests
to feed it, as the uses to which paper and pulp
Gamble probably put are multiplying. IT'S true
that iron and steel have been substituted for tn
wooden beams in buildings and bridges to a large
extent, and wire has come in cheaper subst-
tute for fences, and coal or ooaloi gives us
fuel as well light. but with all this relief. the
present annual destruction of timberfar exceeds
the growth.
With all these data to show the necessities of
timber growth, as they effect our material wants.
we are STARTLED by the authenticated statement
that forest fires are now devouring more valuable
timber annually than all our saw mills. Our
water supply and rain fall are also intimately
dependent upon the preservation OF the timber
growth that must continue as a necessary cloth.
ing OF our hills and mountains; especially is this
the case with all land too steep or stony for the