We got valuable laws for the farmer; laws preventing the adulteration of food products (which laws were equally valuable to the consumer), and laws helping the dairyman.

In addition to labor legislation I was able to do a good deal for forest preservation and the protection of our wild life.

All that later I strove for in the Nation in connection with Conservation was foreshadowed by what I strove to obtain for New York State when I was Governor; and I was already working in connection with Gifford Pinchot and Newell.

I secured better administration, and some improvement in the laws themselves.

The improvement in administration, and in the character of the game and forest wardens, was secured partly as the result of a conference in the executive chamber which I held with forty of the best guides and woodsmen of the Adirondacks.
As regards most legislation, even that affecting labor and the forests, I got on fairly well with the machine.