Show 1 Dimus lillin at the mili bion convention inter ocean I 1 at the late state foresta Fores tm convention tit grand rapids ilia alkon N A beecher of genessee Gon essee county sald the annual waste or consula tion of forest timber in one beir in the united states Is accor diniz to the last eat I 1 mated at more t a n double the amount of the national hank currency achere are aira OO 00 mills engaged in manufacturing I 1 let and shingles in Ali chigin A ith an invested CA ital of and the value oil the annual product app to 00 rho owners of there milli majoy 3 5 0 0 0 persons ho receive ann 11 a 1 1 y an of over the total product of mic gan for 1886 Is almost feet shingles sena or palmer recently gati mated this product for at feet in one a r 0 n ou he says to girdle the yr e t A w fifteen board fences each five boards high at the ean ator 1 I 1 i argument to prove the commercial value of pine and hird woods but the cheaper woodi tho those that have been considered nearly worthless are bein g valuable extensive pulp aari es are springing si ringing up in dim rent parts of the saito and utilizing tile cheaper woods such as spruce balsam small norway jack pine and poplar so species is increasing rapidly A P 1 per by professor james satterlee f lansing said 1 I would not becom me d the giving up of productive farm land for th e ia t in of lilt bearing trees in t e tn of realizing profit but alona the roadside or near the ito use or its apart of the home orchard they are worthy of a place they add much to the beauty odthe landscape and to the attractive ness of the home 0 31 secretary of tile Lum bermans ex change at chicago wrote VII ito and red pine in forestry Is like the iu than in this body politic mostly a thang abo past I 1 he great bulk is gone it has mainly fr in 1 I aine X ew f york and at ic I 1 ifa a n originally had about of feet board measure of pine but now has only from to duri ng tile last five years there lilt been an average cut of 4 WO j MO wisconsin Wis consid now has mo 0 pi e t an michigan Minnesota now has about 1 bmartin conrad of chicago twenty vears foreman of barze wagon works in chicago said five kinds of timber are foremost in the construction tf wagons bizz white oak which takes eighty years to mature shell bark hickory which matures in from thirty to fifty vears white aab now very rare fit io U in thirty years red or nor y foe requiring at least sixty years belore it is profitable to use an A of timber grown is worth fire times as knuch as an acre of natural timber mr conrad do duc esthe following years of mature deliberation one tree would grow to the rod or W to the acro say after eighty years after eighty years each tree would make feet or M feet to the acre which in chicago be worth now per thousand pro J satterlee SAt tetlee of lansing advised the providing provi ing of bitte mut for the stating that the bitternut deac I 1 tee a growth of air feet in a year and eight feet in two years of sit lost in A single year was chile no other hard wood ha a over four kel Pr olear becom mead the of the hardy and the ke the ron arthur hill of Se simor the tion of borea I 1 ia g I 1 I 1 I 1 17 ab I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 aji 1 jI put a to j tto ilia criminal wantonness of poran a wroge careless nem mav result in the loss of of dollars A few suggestions were presented u the of a SWe forestry agn the speakers 8 idea was that the visors of the townships should arr amade to act as fire wardens and should issue bermita to bum bruah and make other fires in the woods which might be benac ing seve e penalties should be at cached and malicious of lenders dealt with as felons |