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A few days ago I called on a man in New Jersey who said he 

 would have twenty bushels of hickory nuts and two or three bushels of 

 English walnuts if the squirrels did not take them. He is up against a 

 state law which protects the squirrels but does not protect him. 



f wish we could send out word with you to the states to get at least 

 a few people interested in nut culture, and have them write to the 

 agricultural colleges and the experiment stations and arouse some inter- 

 est along this line at those institutions, not only among the fruit ex- 

 tension men and the teachers, but also among the landscape men as 

 well. There ought to be more interest taken in this work at our colleges 

 and universities, and nut culture courses ought to be organized. The 

 foresters ought to be induced to use nut trees wherever possible. 



That is all of the time I care to take at present, Mr. President, but 

 I wish to say that if there is any way of arousing interest in the 

 states, I would be glad to carry the word from Washington and to 

 push it just as hard as possible. 



Hon. \y. S. Linton, Saginaw, Michigan, spoke on "Roadside Plant- 

 ing vs. Reforestation," as follows: 



As a delegate to the National Tax Association convention at White 

 Sulphur Springs, it has been my lot to have been named on both fed- 

 eral and state committees, with the idea of exempting from taxation 

 those who would produce trees for the future. My experience has 

 been that exemption from taxation for the purpose of producing our 

 future forests is a wrong one. The sentiment of the people is 

 against exemption from taxation, and I do not know how it may 

 be practically applied to the growing of the forests that our country 

 miust have in the future. But the individual will not carry out the 

 work, and the corporations will not undertake it, so it devolves upon 

 the government of the state to reproduce those forests. The govern- 

 ment lives for a long period in between many life-times, and ours 

 should live as long as the earth. It is therefore u]? to us to repro- 

 duce those forests which we once had and, as all things come back to 

 the state, then the state should reforest. 



Next the roadways are to he considered. Roadways will grow a 

 better class of timber and trees; they are rich in soil, generally, because 

 they pass through the most fertile regions of the country and, up to 

 this time, they have been waste land. I believe that the farmer is 

 right in his wish that trees which shut in the roadsides should be cut 



