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steads where they have to go to the necessity .o£ getting rid. of this tim- 

 ber. 



Mr. Bentz: I accept tliat suggestion and amend the resolution in that 

 way. 



A Member: I would like to suggest that the amount is too small and 

 I will move you we adopt the increased amount of one-tenth or one- 

 sixteenth in the resolution. 



Mr. Bentz: I had the honor of introducing that resolution befor.e the 

 forestry congress, with this difference, and it was adopted by that body 

 with that difference, that the amount of planting required was five 

 per cent instead of one, and the great objection that was urged was that 

 it was impossible and a hardship on the homesteader. Now the purpose 

 of this resolution is to forge an entering wedge into this proposition and 

 if we should accept the gentleman's suggestion that would kill the very 

 resolution that is introduced and would destroy the purpose, and I hope 

 that this society will leave it in its original form, of one per cent which 

 imposes no hardship on anybody and makes it possible for trees to be 

 planted in a systematic way by every homesteader without regards to 

 Avhere he is located, because it is a well known fact that trees will 

 grow everywhere. Some varieties of trees will grow anywhere where 

 cereal crops will grow, provided they receive the care and culture that 

 our cornfields receive. 



Mr. Pollard: I second the motion but not the last amendment. Car- 

 ried. 



Mr. Pollard: I move we adjourn. Seconded. Carried. 



The forty-fourth annual meeting of the Nebraska State Horticultural 

 Society then adjourned. 



