90 Wisconsin State Hobticultueal Society. 



and afterward moved to the wilds of the west, and became noted as 

 a bold huntress, and for her collection of wild animals exhibited at 

 the Centennial, all killed and stuffed by her own hands. Notices 

 had been given in the papers of her recent death, with an account 

 f of her remarkable career. She had obtained notoriety, but did it 

 pay for what it cost? Was it of any real use to her or the world ? 

 Her home was but a mvth. Would she not have been much 

 happier, would it not have been worth more to her to have labored 

 to make a true home ? 



Rev. Mr. Huntley, President of Lawrence University, remarked 

 that he had heard of her connection with the university, and of 

 her remarkable life, but he thought one of the kind was enough. 

 Home life was the truest and noblest sphere. He was^rejoiced to 

 see that the papers presented dwelt so much on the home and on 

 those things calculated to make our homes more beautiful and 

 happy. He could heartily indorse the sentiments expressed, they 

 were a credit to their authors and creditable to any society that 

 was seeking to benefit mankind. 



8 P. M. — Professor N. M. Wheeler, of Lawrence University, 

 read the following paper on 



FOEEST CULTURE. 



It is a generally accepted conclusion, founded on long and 

 careful observation, that every country needs, in order to be best 

 fitted for human habitation, that at least one-quarter of its whole 

 surface be covered with forest, and that this forest should be in 

 masses. The proportion of forest to the whole area of the United 

 State was in 1870 twenty-five per cent. From 1870 to 1880 there 

 were over thirty thousand saw mills in operation in the United 

 States, and the rate of forest destruction by these and other agen- 

 cies was greater than ever before. There can be no doubt, there- 

 fore, that the proportion of woodland is now considerably below 

 the proper limit in the country at large. 



This i=. the result already reached in a land, which at the be- 

 ginning of the last century was the most magnificently wooded 

 country on the face of the earth, and whose wealth of forest is 



