STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCLBTT. 179 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



FOURTH DAY. 



President Sias appointed Messrs. Phillips, Peffer and Puller a 

 committee on final resolutions. 



Mr. Hodges appeared before the society as per program, and read 

 his paper, as follows: 



FACTS ABOUT FORESTRY. 



By Leonarb B. Hodges of St, Paul. 



Accepting an invitation of the Minnesota State Horticultural 

 Society to address them on the subject of Forestry, 1 offer this 

 paper. No economic question of the present has a greater bearing 

 on the future well-being of the State than forestry. I use the 

 term " State " in its broadest sense. The old-fashioned word com- 

 monwealth is more significant, inasmuch as on its broad face it 

 suggests the idea that there is [a species of wealth that can be 

 enjoyed by all the citizens of the State. The wealth of forestry, 

 with its attendant comforts, is of that kind, and its blessings reach 

 out beyond|the immediate control of the legal proprietor of the forest, 

 and embraces within its ameliorating influence his more immediate 

 neighbors, whether friends or foes ; and so as the good work goes on 

 from one neighborhood to]another, the actual wealth first developed 

 by a few, to a very large extent becomes the common wealth of the 

 many. 



The pioneer farmer out on our oceanic prairies, who surrounds 

 his quarter section with a broad belt of forest trees, protects not 

 only his own fields and crops from the damaging effects of storms, 



