• 82 ANNUAL KEI'UUT OF T1IK Oft. Due. 



the feverish tongue, is the ideal place for the establishment of sana- 

 toria for the treatment of incipient tuberculosis. The Camp Sana- 

 torium on the South Mountain is ideally located. It is not a menace 

 to any man, and the patients therein find healing and comfort. The 

 State c;ui do no better humanitarian act than provide liberally for 

 those unfortunates who must of necessity withdraw from the class of 

 workers. Here, at little expense they are provided for, healed, and 

 restored to their friends and families, ready again to take their place 

 in the producing class. The Camp Sanatorium, since its establish- 

 ment in January, 1903, has treated about 120 cases, and the re- 

 sults obtained from its meagre equipment and small capacity have 

 been most marvelous. The ready support of the Legislature for a 

 continuance of this work will produce results hitherto wholly unsus- 

 pected. 



We must keep before us, however, the primary object of the forest 

 reserves, providing new sources of lumber supply; affording a cover 

 to lands unfit for anything else than tree growing; and preserving 

 and regulating stream flow. The whole work can and will have an 

 effect for good upon all the citizens of the State, especially when com 

 bined with its incidental features, that of furnishing health and 

 recreation to thousands of people. Those who realize the good 

 which can thus be accomplished should, and we believe will, ac- 

 cord the whole movement the support which it so well deserves. 



MR. SCHWARZ: Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask Mr. Williams 

 whether he can give any information as to how to start a black 

 walnut grove. 



MR. WILLIAMS: Mr. Chairman, in answer to the gentleman, 1 

 would state that in Clinton county in the fall of 1904, five hundred 

 acres of ground was plowed up — all of this lies in a swale or low 

 place in a marsh — after the ground was suitably prepared and what- 

 ever debris was on the ground, was burned on the ground, then these 

 walnuts were planted at short distances apart in rows. The nuts 

 themselves were put in the ground, and allowed to remain there 

 without any further attention whatever. In the spring of 1905, a 

 large number of those walnuts have sprouted and are coming up, 

 and giving every promise of making splendid trees. Possibly sixty 

 per cent, of those planted were in that condition last spring. The 

 walnut is a slow growing tree, and does not always sprout the first 

 Spring after being put into the ground. The coming Spring we will 

 look for a great many more that did not appear last Spring. I think 

 we may probably count upon about eighty per cent, of those wal- 

 nuts growing. In order to keep down the wild vine and bracken last 

 summer at the proper season, the ground 'was sowed with buck- 

 wheat. The buckwheat grew so rapidly in that rich forest soil, 

 that it simply crowded out the weeds which would have intruded. 

 At this time the ground is almost bare of w r eeds, and it may not be 

 necessary to give another sowing of buckwheat. Some of those wal- 

 nuts are about thirty inches high, and are doing well, so far as I 

 can tell, this being simply an experiment, and an endeavor to find 

 out what the Department can do in this direction. We have great 

 hope that this experiment may be successful. 



On motion, duly seconded, il was ordered that the report be re 

 eeived. placed on file and printed 



