The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-01-12

Declared State Forester Hawes in Lee.
ture in Barre Last Night.

! State Forester Austin n Hawes gave
an illustrated lecture On forestry at tbs
Universalist church last evening The
lecture was given under the auspices Of
tie Clover club. one Of the clubs of the
Civic Federation and Mrs y. II Mower
president Of the Glover club, introduced
The speaker There were present about
100 people, a great majority Of whom
were women.
In beginning bis lecture, Mr. Hawcs
said that the subject of forestry was be-.
fore this country to-day more than Il
had ever been before on account Of The
recent pinchot Ballinger controversy,
which finally resulted iu che national
forester being expelled from office BY
President Taft 1t was also through the
good work done 81 Mr. Pinchot, he said.
that the papers and magazines have talk.
ca up the subject and spread Il before
the public at large Ten years ago, said
the speaker, Alr. Pinohot was practically
the only forester IN this country, though
there were other men who were IN ku.
rope At the time studying forestry He
claimed chat Il was solely through Mr..
Pnchot's activities That the country had
been made to realize The great import
anee a forest conservation and thas the
forestry department has been raised to
what il is to-day.
The country now has six schools for
the study Of forestry and the governs
ment owns two hundred million acres of
land. upon which there IS one.hfth of
the total standing timber ID the country
The government now makes approprias
tions of s5.000,0O0 for forestry work
Mr. pinehot had the advantage of great
wealth and social position in Washington
to aid him in the work in getting the
subject before the public aHa Congress.
ON account Of the fact that Do stood up
for the peoples interests, as against the
trusts and mon0polies, WAS what caused
his trouble
MI Hawes spoke for an hour, and his
lecture was very interesting and instruct.
i've a great many d bis pictures, which
were thrown on the sefeen, wese taken
Of the forests ii Germany where for
estry has been practieed for many years.
The aim Of forestry. he saia, was to
prohibit the ruthless ana unnecessary
destruction Of natural forests and to
teach men how % preserve their forests
by allowing them to seed themselves and
grow up and take the place Of he old
forests
III Germany, he said, the forests have
tie appearance 81 d fight 81 stairs as
seen from q passing train. At the forest
Is being cut, old trees are left here and
there 10 seed the ground around them
and after the seedlings have started
from the ground tie old trees are eut
and the old trees farther back are cut
and the cleared ground is allowed b seed
and grow up again. In thls manner
whole forests are cut over. and ID time
the FIRST ground cleared Is again ready to
be cut and the same process q cutting
is started He also showed ere methods
Of clearing ont from forests the poor
trees and dead wood, ID order . give
the good trees q chance 70 grow
He showed 4 picture Of the new state
forestry nursery at Burlington where tha
state had several hundred acres q Young
trees whieh theg are selling at sl.a1
per thousand He also had one picture
aben - ne reserve recently purchased
bg tia state ir faNlieId