1.S2 NEBRASKA STATE IIORTK MLTl'UAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Brown: There is a difference in the rows of young trees as 

 you look down the row. 



Chairman: Are there any more questions? We know that these 

 horticultural fellows are looking to these professors for information in 

 all these matters that pertain to any questions as to varieties of catal- 

 pas and poplars and all these things. If they can not tell the difference 

 T do not see how they expect us to. I have wondered whether the Caro- 

 lina and the Norway poplars were the same. I have them both growing. 

 There is a difference while the trees are small. I do not know how 

 they will be when they are large. In the early stages of their growth 

 there is an apparent difference in the mode of growth, but these profes- 

 sors want to keep prepared to tell us the distinctions; that is what we 

 expect from them. 



Chairman: Our next topic is "Farm and Municii)al Wood Lots." by 

 Mr. O. A. Williams, of Neligh. 



FARM AND MUNICIPAL WOOD LOTS. 



O. A. WILLIAMS, NELIGH. 



I feel like apologizing for appearing before this body of experts 

 and specialists along the lines of horticulture and floriculture. But 

 simply that you may understand and make due allowances, I will state 

 to those who do not know me, and that is practically all of those assem- 

 bled here, that my ordinary business is that of an attorney-at-law. I am 

 not presuming to know much about horticulture and the raising of 

 trees, but I think that the committee or person who arranged this 

 program understood that 1 v/as not presumed to know very much about 

 the subject, because the subject which precedes me and the subject 

 which follows my address can be made to cover practically the same 

 ground and furnish all the technical knowledge desired. But I suppose 

 I am supposed to do like lawyers do, use authorities and speak about 

 what others have said instead of advancing my own opinion and knowl- 

 edge. However, in regard to this subject, I have taken a deep interest 

 so far as my business would allow me to. T have read a great deal in 

 regard to forestry and have been particularly interested in regard to 

 the application of the principles of conservation and conditions in Ne- 

 braska, and along that line, and that line alone, I wish to address myself 

 today for a very few minutes. 



You know there are two aspects of forestry; that one is the preser- 

 vation of what we have. The maintenance of our forests is getting to be 

 a serious question. They go on cutting indefinitely, like they cut their 

 forests in Europe, keeping their principal intact, but never destroying it, 

 as our lumbermen have destroyed entire tracts. Then there is the other 

 aspect of it. which is the only one that concerns us, the creating of forests 

 where none have ever existed before. T take it that in the agitation for 

 conservation we have heard altogether more of the practical side. In re- 



