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their existence, will do well to reflect on the dangers which 

 threaten them through the destruction of the forests, and 

 consider what steps they can take to avert them. 



The railroads, the most dependent of all our corporations 

 on a supply of wood for their daily consumption and increased 

 traffic, must soon, in self-defence, turn their attention to 

 arboriculture. But, in this community, we must look to 

 individual enterprise and individual intelligence if we expect 

 to see any considerable portion of this State re-covered with 

 forest growth ; and to the farmers, more than to any other 

 class, must be left the solution of the difficulties and dangers, 

 which the forest question presents. 



To-day, I can offer them no better advice than that of the 

 dying old Scotchman to his son — " Ye may be aye sticking in 

 a tree, Jock ; it will be growin' when ye're sleepin'." 



The report was accepted, when the Board adjourned. 



T'H I R D Day. 



The Board met at ten o'clock, a. m. Major S. B. Phinney 

 in the chair. 



Present: Messrs. Baker, Bennett, Davis, Dwight, Fenn, 

 Goessmann, Had wen, Holland, Knowlton, Knox, Ladd, Lor- 

 ing, Merrill, Moore, Perry, Phinney, Saltonstall, Sargent, 

 Shepley, Metcalf J. Smith, Milo J. Smith, Stone, Vincent, 

 L. P. Warner, W. L. Warner, and Wilder. 



Mr. W. L. Warner subm 

 ment of delegates, as follows 



Essex, 

 Middlesex, 

 Middlesex Norih, 

 Middlesex South, 

 Worcester, 

 Worcester West, 

 Worcester North, 

 Worcester North-West, 

 Worcester South, 

 Worcester South-East, 



tted a report upon the assign- 

 -To the 



George M. Baker. 

 Leverett Saltonstall. 

 Eliphalet Stone. 

 Solomon Lincoln. 

 Alexander Mact, Jr. 

 Elijah Perry. 

 E. C. Hawks. 

 William Knowlton. 

 Horace P. Wakefield, 

 CouRTLON Sanderson. 



