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2. Owing to the almost universal practice of mowing along railways; of 

 mowing, pasturing, or cultivating each side of the highway clear up to the 

 track, and of pasturing wood lots, our growing trees and shrubs and wild 

 herbaceous plants are exterminated or disfigured or kept in check. 



3. There are many very interesting and profitable things to be learned 

 by a thorough study of a native forest, and these will be more and more as 

 time advances, as timber becomes scarcer, and some of our citizens become 

 more interested in forestry. Even now, in some countries, long journeys 

 are made with view to studying trees. 



4. Such a reservation, if properly cared for, should exhibit one or more 

 good methods of management in regard to prevention from fire, methods 

 of cutting or thinning. 



5. In addition to the native tree, samples in smaller or larger quantities 

 of other hardy species of trees and shrubs, could be introduced, adding to 

 the interest of the subject. 



6. Most likely the forest would be located at the source of some one or 

 more small or large streams, and thus be of value for illustration and study 

 of its efiPect on the water flow. 



7. Such tract should very properly be the protected resort of certain 

 kinds of wild animals of interest to naturalists and sportsmen, perhaps 

 including some animals introduced from other countries. 



8. To some extent, such a reserve is a botanic garden, and of special 

 interest to every horticulturist, botanist, or lover of nature. 



9. There is a time coming when many of our people will appreciate such 

 a reserve, and will be as eager to make pilgrimages thereto as the sports- 

 men now are to make trips to the wilds of the state to shoot deer and other 

 animals. To a person properly trained, there is just as much interest in 

 hunting for wild, rare, or beautiful trees and plants, or snails, slugs, and 

 insects, as there is in shooting deer or in catching grayling, trout, or bass. 



10. If properly selected and cared for, such reserve or reserves will help 

 solve the perplexing problem soon to present itself forcibly to the minds 

 of our citizens, as to whether the state should not own much of the forest, 

 or at least have something to say in regard to the removal of the young 

 timber. 



11. We might very properly have more than one such reserve, in widely 

 distant parts of our state, including, if possible, one or more islands. 



12. The selections can mostly be made where the state now owns a 

 large proportion of the land, and it may very well be made where the land 

 is variable, including swamps, marshes, or small lakes. 



13. Land can now be obtained at a moderate cost, and the longer the 

 delay the greater the cost and the greater the difficulty in securing suitable 

 locations. Long delay will also serve forcibly to cause deep regret that 

 somebody had not foresight enough long before to waken an interest and 

 take action in this matter. 



Mr. N. A. Beecher of Flushing: I am heartily in sympathy with any 

 measure that has for its object the ijrotection of the forests of either 

 peninsula. As to the demand for lumber, it may not be greater than it 

 was years ago, as claimed by Mr. Glidden, but the quality of the supply 

 is very different from that of 25 or 30 years ago. The yards 

 contain much lumber which then would have been rejected as worthless. 

 Then scarcely any hardwood was cut; now it is common to see the mill- 

 yards full of hardwood logs, and in some sections there is scarcely any 



