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have a very good one, but he cannot get along in that line very long 

 before he finds himself unfolding, developing, his brain is expand- 

 ing, he is getting more power to do a little more than he could 

 along that line. Anything that will set people to thinking, that 

 will tend to make things clear to their minds and help them to learn 

 to observe, to compare, to analyze and to remember all these things 

 and to draw conclusions that cannot be set aside, that is education. 

 As I said before, they learn something that interests them, and the 

 more interest they take the more they develop, the faster they grow. 

 Education is growth. We grow just as that tree that has been 

 rightly planted, the one that the farmer and the horticulturist sets 

 out and sets it out right; and that tree grows and develops just be- 

 cause it has been set out right. Thus it is in starting out these 

 young minds ; if we start them out right, we will find that "as the 

 twisr is bent the tree's inclined." 



A PLEA FOR MORE TREE PLANTING. 



Mr. C. H. Patten : I was much interested in the paper of Mr. 

 Bush in which he enlarged somewhat upon the line of landscape 

 gardening and home adornment. He recommended the planting of 

 something like five acres of forestry upon the grounds, and I think 

 previous to that he enlarged a little upon that ; he rose from five to 

 ten acres as I understood his paper. While we are talking about the 

 adornment of the home, and there have been very many good and 

 beautiful things said upon that subject here, we should at all times 

 keep in mind the environment of these homes, and I wish to enlarge 

 a little upon the thought expressed by Mr. Bush in regard to those 

 larger plantings. I have been studying the topography of your state, 

 and as I shall not be here tomorrow when this subject of forestry 

 will be brought up I feel that I wish to say to this society that in my 

 opinion they have a very great and important work to perform, and 

 that work in order to be successful should be in harmony with the 

 forestry association, from the fact that right here within fifty miles, 

 or perhaps within sixty miles, to the north you have prairie condi- 

 tions. The lumbermen have destroyed your timber, the country is 

 like a plain stripped of its forest plantation — and how are you go- 

 ing to have these home grounds unless you have the environment 

 suitable for homes? If the society will look into the future I think 

 they will take the most active interest in the preservation of the for- 

 ests as forests, and in educating the people not to cut the timber off 

 their lands on the north and west sides, but to preserve a grove of 

 timber on each farm. I have often noticed the tendency to strip 



