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as in preventing or repairing losses which may happen or have happened. 
The same spirit of looking ahead, the use of the same kind of prudence and 
good sense that a man employs in dealing with his own business affairs, is the 
key to the solution of your problem. So it is of the forest problem, the water- 
power problem, the soil-erosion problem, the navigation problem, which affects, 
of course, your work most intimately; and all the other great individual 
problems concerned in this greatest of all movements. 
So I have wanted to bespeak for the conservation movement the sympa- 
thy and good will of the fisheries men just exactly as the fisheries men should 
have and do have the sympathy and good will and cooperation of the forest 
men; and I should be very glad indeed if in any way whatever the Forest 
Service can more efficiently promote the work you have in hand. I should 
welcome any assistance or advice you may be willing to give for that purpose. 
Thank you very much for your attention. 
Mr. S. G. WortH (Superintendent U.S. Fisheries Station, Edenton, North 
Carolina). Ihave listened attentively to the papers and discussions in the sessions 
of this congress, and there is nothing I have heard in these meetings that has 
interested me more, or that has seemed to be a broader-gauged question, than 
the one alluded to by the last speaker. I have been in fish-cultural work for 
something like thirty-one years, and acquainted with the Piedmont section of 
North Carolina during that time. It has been painful to me for many years 
to see the ruin that has taken place in the streams of that section; and when 
I recently rode through the State from Cape Lookout to Asheville, it occurred 
to me that I ought then to sit down and write a newspaper article, encouraging 
the people connected with the state government to take some steps against 
the washing away of the lands. ‘This last speaker has asked for some suggestion 
by which the Forest Service could aid us, and I may make this suggestion to 
him, that in Wake County, N. C., which is the site of the state capitol, there 
is a species of hillside ditching carried on by the cotton and corn farmers of 
that country which obviates almost entirely the washing away of those lands. 
It is a perfected system, which has been in existence there for years. I lived 
for a year on the farm of the late Jesse F. Taylor, where I saw that great land 
improvement which he had effected, and where he had stopped all the land 
wash; and I became acquainted with the principles of that hillside ditching; 
and I recommend to the Forest Service the study and extension of the system 
of hillside ditching referred to, as a universal benefit to fish culture in the 
United States. I would close my remarks by saying that it is one of the 
simplest and cheapest operations that I have ever seen, and may be done 
entirely with a 1-horse turn plow and a long-handled shovel. 
The PrEsIpDENT. Are there others who will make suggestions or remarks? 
Tf not, the session will adjourn until 2.30 this afternoon. 
Thereupon, at 12.30 p. m., the congress adjourned. 
