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votion of wet land to timber crops for the veneer and other 

 industries until it is needed for farming ; the keeping of the 

 hills in timber both for its direct and indirect value; the 

 stopping of timber devastation on land which never was or 

 never will be suited to agriculture, thus increasing our acre- 

 age of waste land ; and a respect on the part of large com- 

 panies for the surface value of that land as a timber grow- 

 ing proposition, as well as the values which lie beneath the 

 surface, realizing that it may yield a fair profit on the in- 

 vestment. 



Note: This talk before the members of the Illinois 

 Academy of Science and the people of Carbondale was made 

 from lantern slides. Perhaps a more appropriate subject 

 would have been "The Better Care of the Forest Resources 

 of Southern Illinois and the Relation of Those Forests to the 

 Industries and Economic Welfare of the Region." 



R. B. Miller, Survey Forester. 



SLIDES SHOWN BY MR. MILLER 

 "Undeveloped Forest Resources of Southern Illinois" 



(FIRST set) forest FIRES. 



Slides showing fires burning from Bald Knob, Union 

 County, March, 1920. Bad fires reported this last spring 

 and most of the timber burned over every two years. Bald 

 Knob, April 28th. 



(SECOND SET) GULLYING LANDS. 



Erosion, forming gullies, on yellow silt loam soil when 

 this has a grade of over 800 feet to the mile. (Weller.) 

 Keeping this covered with trees would prevent this waste. 



(THIRD SET) THE VENEER INDUSTRY. 

 SHOWING MILLS AT JONESBORO AND COBDEN. 



Shows that a supply of bottomland timber will always be 

 needed and is vital to the fruit growing industry of the 



