MONEY IN TIMBER. 145 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 



The President: Mr. Green are you ready with your report on resolu- 

 tions? 



Mr. Green: I am. I also have the report of the committee on resolu- 

 tions on the death of Mr. Beltzer, of Osceloa, and Mr. Smith, of Falls 

 City. 



Mr. Green reads as follows: 



"Resolved, That the members of the Nebraska State Horticultural 

 Society, assembled at the University Farm, Lincoln, on January 111, 17, 

 18, 1912, desire to express their hearty appreciation for the success of the 

 meeting resulting from the efforts of those responsible for the same. 



"We wish to thank the University Farm faculty for courtesies ex- 

 tended, the exhibitors for their splendid displays, those on the program 

 for their able, interesting, and instructive addresses, and others aiding in 

 the success of the meeting. 



(Signed) "C. H. GREEN, 



"H. W. MARSHALL, 

 "B. E. FIELDS." 



"Whereas, It has been the will of Almighty God to take from our 

 midst two of our members, L. A. Beltzer and H. C. Smith, therefore be it 

 "Resolved, that we gratefully remember their valuable services to 

 our Society, and their interest and earnestness in the upbuilding of Ne- 

 braska horticulture. 



"As death takes from among us one after another of our fellow mem- 

 bers and coworkers in the field of horticulture, we can but mourn for 

 them as brothers, who have toiled with us, and whose memories we will 

 ever cherish. 



(Signed) "C. H. GREEN, 



"H. W. MARSHALL, 

 "B. E. FIELDS." 



Moved and seconded that the resolutions be adopted as read and 

 spread upon the records. Carried. 



The President: We have a paper here from Father C. S. Harrison, 

 which the secretary will read. 



MONEY IN TIMBER. 



C. S. Harrison, York. 



RENTING THE POOREST LAND AT THE HIGHEST PRICE. 



Most farmers have some wet patches of land on their farms where 

 for twenty-five or thirty years they have raised nothing but weeds. Had 

 they been planted in the early days they would have yielded three hun- 

 dred dollars' worth of lumber per acre beside an abundance of fuel. 



It is hard to make the average American farmer believe in a here- 

 after in this life. He may believe in an immortality beyond the grave, 

 but it is impossible for him to look ahead twenty-five years from now. 

 If these rich unproductive lands were planted in trees you are also cer- 



