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J. K. Patterson was adopted, expressing the sense of the meeting that the invi- 

 tations shdnld lie ju-i-cpted if it sctMiis ftvisilde to do so. 



The convention Mdjonrncd at in o'clock p. ni., to meet November K'., ir)u5, at 

 o'clock a. ni. 



Morning Session, Titirsday, Xove:mber 10, 1005. 



The convention was called to order at !• o'clock a. ni. l),v the president. 



Forestry in Land-Grant Institutions. 



The chairman of the executive committee rei)orted hack to the association the 

 series of preambles and resolutions, by S. B. (Jreen, of Minnesota, already given 

 in full on page 27. with the recommendation that they be adopted in the follow- 

 ing form : 



Whei'eas the forests of this country are fast lisaiiiieariiig and little or no 

 attention is being paid to their renewal ; and 



AVhereas the development of this country is seriously threatened by a shortage 

 in tind)er supi>ly: Then'fore be it 



Rcsolrcil bij the Associittiim of Aiiirricnii Af/riciilfiiral CoUcticx and llvitcyinicnt 

 fStutioiis ill von rent ion iisscniltlid. That the national foi'estry jtolicy of tins coun- 

 try should include ])rovision for education and e.\]ieiMnieiitation in for(>stry by 

 the agriciillural colleges and exiieriinent stations of llic din'crent States and 

 Territories. 



S. B. (Jreen. Our forest resources seemed at one time to be inexhaustible. 

 It seemed as though we had such a wealth of foi'est that we could never use it 

 up. But we are fast getting to the point when it is a question where we shall get 

 the valuable timl)ers and woods to use in our industries. The increase of stump- 

 age value has been enormous in the past ten years. We have been working our 

 timber resources just as we would a mine. We have not treated them as though 

 they could reproduce themselves, and the land that has been cut over is practi- 

 cally nonproductive to-day. It is brush land, burned over every few years, and 

 on which the new growth is of little value. There is a shortage of timber, and 

 timber is the foundation of many of our industries. 



There is an immense amoiuit of mining riches in the United States that ought 

 to be developed, but it is probable that there is hardly a mine made which does 

 not have to be heavily timbered ; and there are no heavier consumers of timber 

 than our nunes. And in many sections of the country to-day they have ditliculty 

 in finding timbers for properly timbering their mines. 



I know of one mine in Minnesota that uses something like SO miles of log 

 timber in a year. We have an enormous amount of waste land that is unpro- 

 ductive, not only in Minnesota, where we have many millions of acres of that 

 kind, l)ut throughout the United States. There is not a State in this country 

 that has not an enormous amount of land that is nonproductive and could be 

 made productive, if properly cared for, in forests. 



Without forests we are going to be handicapped in the development of this 

 country. We have been working a primeval source of timber supply. Some- 

 body may say that the forests of Oregon are inexhaustible, or those of the 

 Pacific slope ; but they are not. It should be remembered also that more timber 

 has been destroyed by fire in this country than was ever cut by the lumbermen, 

 and the cause of the fires lies in the lack of realization as to the amount of 

 damage that is done by it. There is not a State which does not need forest 

 instruction. There are some States where the people are very apathetic in 

 regard to this matter. 



The National Government is doing a grand work through its Forest Service 

 In the spreading of correct ideas as to forestry throughout this country, and its 



