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been out off years a.i^o. T asked, "Why don't you replant?" The ans'ver 

 was: "Tt took too long to raise a crop of trees, because the farn fv 

 could not afford to nut so much money into trees and wait so long t-r 

 a return." T .said then, "Why not have the s-overnment do it?" An.i 

 the answer to that was: "We cannot trust th^ government with tha< 

 work." Then, how are we eroing to get a forest planted? Tt seems *n 

 me the only practical method would be to set aside forest reserves in 

 every townshio and lei these reserves be owned by stock comnanies. and 

 let farmers or peoui-' ,SLke stock in proportion to the acreage of land 

 that they own. ct this be sufficient to plant it to forests. Employ a 

 forester to take care of it. Later on, as the forests become large, they 

 may be thinned out, some of the wood can be sold, and in that wav some 

 returns would be made on the investment. In this way the burden is 

 not upon any one shoulder and the forests would be sufficient to make 

 a material effect upon the climate. Of course, this plan mieht denend 

 upon the leeislature to some extent, but in this way every farmer would 

 sret a benefit. 



Mr. Brown: That would be all rieht, but you will have to educate 

 the man to it. or the farmer, uo to tJie point where he will be led to 

 believe that there will be m-ofit in the undertaking. If you can do that, 

 it undoubtedly will be a success. If you will send for and read "Forest 

 Bulletin No. 27," you will ?:ei some facts that will open your eyes. 

 You must create tniblic sentiment, as has been suggested. This will be 

 done by publishing forestry facts and principles in our text-books. In 

 that A^ ay this problem would be solved. We might not live to see the 

 benefits of it, biit the coiuins: generation would. 



Mr. McCandlass: T wish to comnliment Mrs. Harrison upon her splen- 

 did paner on forestry. Ei-^-ht hundred thousand club women in the 

 United States working for the interests of forestry would be doing a 

 grand work. Take the case of our own cemetery here in Wymore. 

 neglected for so many years — so much so that people were reluctant 

 to die. We turned this cemetery association over to the ladies and I 

 must say that the results have become a great credit to the city under 

 their manaerement. 



A few days ago I read an account of the erection of the first monu- 

 ment in the state of Nebraska dedicating the line of the old Oregon 

 trail. This monument was erected through the efforts of the "Daughters 

 of the American Revolution" at the city of Kearney. That trail is the 

 longest graveyard in the world and the scene of more revolting murders 

 and bloodshed of men, women and children than all the battles of the 

 Civil war. This trail has just been marked out for the benefit of pos- 

 terity. That thoueht was by the ladies. Personally, I owe an obligation 

 to the ladies of the city of Wymore, because when I met resistance in 

 my work that I have attempted here in the way of planting trees and 

 parking to beautify the city, I have always had the support of the 

 ladles. So T wish to say that if you can get the ladies Interested in any 

 line of work, that work will progress and go forward. 



