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largest wooden-ware manufactory in the state made inquiries in 

 regard to the cost and the best manner of raising hoop-poles. He 

 said the company had one hundred and sixty acres they were in- 

 tending to use for this purpose. On being informed as to the 

 probable cost, he said, " We buy them for less than that now, 

 but it is not a question of present cost at all, but of supply." If 

 used at the present rate the supply would soon be exhausted, and 

 he feared that, too, before they could raise them. Those engaged 

 in other branches of manufactures fear a like result with regard 

 to other kinds of timber. 



Mr. Kellogg, Janesville — Yankee ingenuity will find a way of 

 supplying the deficiency when the emergency comes, but the great 

 trouble is with our pine. That is being cut off very rapidly, and 

 we cannot grow pines for lumber purposes. Unless something is 

 done, our lumber supply will soon be exhausted. We have fire- 

 wood enough ; more than thirty years ago, and in the southern 

 part of the state the supply is increasing continually. 



I think the nut-bearing trees are especially adapted to street 

 and line trees. The Hickory is the best nut, and bears abundantly, 

 but it is hard to transplant and propagate. I regard the Butternut 

 as better than the Black "Walnut. It grows rapidly; it is easily 

 transplanted, bears when quite young, and abundantly, and is a 

 handsome shade tree. 



Geo. A. Austin, Neillsville — I do not see what can be done 

 to protect the pine forests. The legislature cannot stop the cut- 

 ting, and if they prevent other use being made of the land when 

 the pine is cut off, it will not reproduce pine. In some places, 

 hard wood comes in after the pine ; if nothing else, it grows up to 

 poplar. In Clark county, maple takes the place of the pine. 



A. G. Tuttle — The same thing is true in Michigan. Where 

 the pine is cut off, other timber 'comes in. In many of the pine 

 forests in our state there is an abundance of small pines coming 

 in. In some places I have seen them very thick from one to two 

 feet high, and more than enough to replace the old trees, and 

 stock the country, if they could be preserved. The way the pine 

 is being used up, especially in such winters as this, it will soon 

 be gone ; still, I believe that more is being destroyed by the fire 

 than by the axe. 



