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Professor Goff: There are some things we are getting a little jealous 

 of; this matter of woman's education, we are getting a little jealous of. 

 I will say we have not settled on this question. We have had a few 

 young women at our agricultural college. Last winter our Legislature 

 passed a bill authorizing the founding in counties of schools of agriculture 

 and schools of domestic economy. That will meet the point, the question 

 this gentleman spoke of, that there are so many who can not attend the 

 agricultural college; but there will be a good many in each county who 

 will be able to attend tli^se schools of domestic economy. 



Member: Regarding the subject of forestry, there is a law in this 

 State providing for the reservation of lands for forests, which lands are 

 exempt from taxation, as I understand. I would ask someone who knows, 

 if they will, to explain more fully Avhat that law is. 



Professor Freeman: There is a law on that subject. There is but 

 one law in this State now, directly upon that subject, which is the reser- 

 vation act of 1899. The law is simply this: That any land-holder has 

 the right to set aside one-eighth of his entire tract of land as a forest, 

 under three conditions: 



First. If it is a natural forest, containing 170 trees to an acre, he 

 can go to the auditor and file a claim, with a description of the land 

 which he desired to reserve. That is subscribed under oath, and this 

 claim must state the number of trees required by the act, and that he 

 intends to maintain the same according to the intent of the enactment; 

 and upon his doing this, this original forest becomes subject to this act 

 upon his filing with the auditor the description as I have stated. 



Second. If he wishes to set apart -his laud, one-eighth, whether it 

 be forest or not, he can plant one-eighth of his farm in trees, 170 to an 

 acre, and cultivate them for three years, and then it will become subject 

 to the act, as I before stated. 



Third. If it contains one hundred trees or more, he can plant enough 

 to make up the required 170, and cultivate it for three years, and then 

 it becomes subject to the act, as in the other cases. But in either case, 

 he can not pasture this land until there are 170 trees above four inches 

 in diameter. That is, under this law, all that the farmer has to do, if 

 he has the forest on his farm, or plants the trees as I have described, 

 is to go to the auditor and file an expression of his willingness to set 

 aside or reserve as a permanent forest, not to exceed one-eighth of his 

 land, and specifically and definitely describe the land, and this is made 

 under oath. Then the land is assessed at one dollar an acre, which prac- 

 tically means that it is exempt from taxation. 



Member: There has been some trouble about that law, has there not, 

 in some of the counties? I have heard something about the trouble. Can 

 you explain that matter to us, what that trouble was about? 



