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have 747 factories in tliis State that are purcliasing over eiglity per cent, 

 of their timber outside of the State, and sixty-three of them use second- 

 growth hickory, oak and ash— not to exceed twenty years' growth. Over 

 forty of them write me that they are going to remove from the State 

 unless something is done to grow second gT0^vth ash, oak and hickoi-y- 

 That is the problem of forestry to many, to provide wood for our factories 

 and to make the waste lands of the State profitable. The others I call 

 side lines. Ornamental shade trees, post trees and such things are side 

 lines. I do not particularly like Osage orange trees, and would not have 

 them on my place unless I planted them on waste places for posts. How 

 many of you know what distance from its trunk an Osage orange will 

 absorb the moisture? 



Mr. Zion: I know that is often brought up. I do not know how far 

 it will absorb the moisture, but I do know that my neighbor says his 

 wheat was better near this hedge last year, because it kept the moisture 

 in the gi-ouud. I know it is not good for corn, but I grow splendid timo- 

 thy right up to the hedge. 



Mr. W. W. Stevens: Some seem to think it is a very profitable tree 

 to grow. I should like to have you tell us how close they should be 

 planted. 



Mr. Freeman: Not more than five feet each way. That will give 

 you over 2,000 trees to the acre. Planting them close prevents their 

 branching, and they give you straight, long posts. The gi'owth of the 

 Osage orange, however, is not nearly so rapid as the catalpa. 



Mr. Zion: In my locality, we would consider it a loss to plant them 

 so far apart as that. 



Mr. Freeman: You do not have them in considerable areas. In sin- 

 gle rows you may plant them as close as sixteen inches. If you are 

 going to plant an acre in a block, how far would you plant them apart? 



Mr. Zion: In rows four feet apart and eight inches in the rows, and 

 cultivate them for two years. 



Mr. Little: While I think it is very profitable to plant trees to raise 

 posts. I doubt very much whether it would be profitable for a man to 

 give a large portion of his land to it. 



Mr. ,T. A. Burton: We have a very important program for tomorrow, 

 and that all may be heard from, I move that the President appoint a 

 timekeeper for tomorrow, and that each member be limited to a discus- 

 sion of throe minutes on each subject. 



The motion was seconded and carried. 



President Stevens appointed the following committees: 

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