PAPERS OF GENERAL INTEREST 49 



region around Anna and Cobden. Increasing prices for 

 tomato crates, berry boxes, hampers and baskets can be 

 counteracted by growing elm, sycamore, gums, maples, etc., 

 on land too wet for agriculture. No slack cooperage plants 

 in the region but barrels shipped in cost $1.50 each when 

 they might be made from veneered staves. Such wet lands 

 might be used for forests and game refuges. 



(FOURTH SET) TIE TREATING PLANTS. 



Took up the subject of decay in timber and the use of pre- 

 servatives, like creosote, to make cheap timbers as durable 

 as white oak, thus saving the oak for saw timber, furniture, 

 etc. Showed views in such plants as they have at Carbon- 

 dale and Marion, where ties are treated by the pressure pro- 

 cess. More ties should be grown locally instead of clearing 

 so much bottomland timber. 



(FIFTH SET) STATE PARK SITES. 



A set of slides showing "Fern Cliff," a beautiful little spot 

 near Goreville, Illinois. We need such places and should 

 acquire them now before their pristine beautj'" is destroyed. 

 The southern Ozarks abound with these spots for state parks 

 which should be connected up with good roads for tourists, 

 thus showing people what is in this part of the State. We 

 need such places for rest and recreation and for their scien- 

 tific and geologic interest. They will delight the botanist, 

 the geologist, the lover of wild life and the recreationist, and 

 be of lasting value to the State. 



R. B. Miller. 



