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It is desired that women shall join in ihis grand organization to help 

 carry on this great and good work. If it is accomi)lished, it will hp 

 through the aid of the women. It rests upon the women of this state 

 to see that Nebraska shall become the beautiful state she should be. 



Woman recommends the safeguarding of the source of streams. That 

 every village should have its park board, and to urge uniform planting 

 of trees on streets and roadsides, so that our country shall then be "God's 

 beautiful out-of-doors." 



"Come, let's to the fields and the meads and the mountains. 

 The forest invites us, the streams and the fountains." 



We have the most glorious out-of-doors there is in our whole land. 

 Tjet us strive to make it a place of beauty, so that it may be enjoyed 

 forever. [Applause.] 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Brown: Mrs. Harrison has certainly struck the right note so 

 far as this state is concerned. You will bear me out in the statement 

 that I have made this statement before this society annually for the 

 last two or three years, concerning this forestry problem. We have a 

 great West that has no trees. The people out there are missing great 

 opportunities. Wherever you find pine trees planted you will find a 

 garden spot. If you ever succeed in starting a pine tree growing, that 

 pine tree is there today. We have this question to solve, the adaptability 

 of the different varieties to that county, and an organized effort should 

 be made by the legislature to ascertain that information. 



Mr. Yager: A great many times, while in attendance unon these 

 meetings, I have felt a tinge of dispair. Many times T have attended our 

 meetings in anticipation of great crowds that I exnected to throng our 

 hall. I have been disappointed only to find a few hundred present. 

 For this reason I have sometimes disnaired, but when talking last 

 evening with Mrs. Harrison she said that there were either eight or 

 eighty thousand club women in the state of Nebraska who are talking 

 about helping us in our society work and the promotion and the pro- 

 mulgation of the things for which we stand. I say I feel encouraged 

 because if we get even eight thousand Nebraska women behind us to inish 

 our cause and encoura-Je us in our wor'-, there will be lots of things 

 done. The point or suggestion that she makes of putting forestry in- 

 struction in our school text-books, we can hardly imagine how far-reach- 

 ing that will be if accomplished. If it becomes a national idea — if that is 

 the thought of Mrs. Harrison— (Mrs. Harrison: Yes, that is the idea.") 

 — It will certainly prove to be a great impetus to furthering the knowl- 

 edge of forestry. I wish to compliment her unon her remarks, and will 

 say that I will now go home more than nleased and with a large amount 

 of enthusiasm on the subject of forestry. 



Mr. Dole: On the subject of forestry the auestion of moisture has 

 much to do. T was impressed with that fact this summer in Michigan. 

 The farmers there were complaining of drought, the forests having 



