From Adolph Leue, Secretary, Columbus, Ohio.

One cannot but admire the disinterested zeal with which so many good people follow the " forestry question," though candor compels one to say little seeming good follows so much hard labor. Here for instance is a good illustration. Dr. Warder, the father of the American forestry movement, was anxious his own State should do something. Not till last year could the Legislature be induced to do anything when the " Forestry Bureau " became a fact. Three excellent gentlemen, without pay except railroad expenses, are working like beavers, and a Secretary with but three hundred dollars gets up this report of 314 pages. The State printer is the chief gainer, and indeed to our mind the only gainer, for what do we learn after all? The Secretary himself sums up the work: 1st. Ohio, once a forest, has only about 17 per cent. of woodland left - but this surely everybody knew. 2d. That nothing is being done towards preventing the cutting down of what remains - this we also knew. 3d. That the time has come when people should preserve and plant.

This also is no news.

The Secretary says that " the difficulty is to convince a legislative body of the necessity of due attention to forestry." That is exactly it. They have charge of the people's money, and should not spend it without knowing what it is to be spent for. The Pennsylvania Legislature has always held itself ready to aid forestry whenever anything practicable has been presented to it, and the only " due necessity " ever presented to it was that parties be exempted from repairing their highways on condition that they planted trees along the highways, to the extent of 25 cents per tree planted, which recommendation the Legislature promptly passed.

There is no recommendation that we see in this long report that any Legislature could take hold of. When the people can see that there is money in tree planting, and that they will be perfectly secure against forest fires, we shall need no further legislation.