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classed as forest land ; that most of this has had the 

 greater part or all of the merchantable timber cut 

 from it; and that through destructive lumbering, 

 turpentining, roving livestock and forest fires, this 

 timber has been replacing itself very slowly or not 

 at all. 



It should also be remembered that a happy change 

 is taking place. Landowners are cutting more care- 

 fully ; cattle and hogs have been controlled in nearly 

 all our counties; and protection from fires is being 

 extended as rapidly as County, State and Federal 

 funds become available. The chief thing lacking 

 now is the interest and co-operation of the people 

 of the towns as well as of the country in growing 

 and protecting our trees and forests. If this little 

 book will bring about a better understanding of 

 trees and a greater appreciation of their aesthetic 

 and economic value to us and those who come after, 

 its purpose will have been accomplished. 



Joseph Hyde Pratt, Director 

 N. C. Geol. and Econ. Survey. 



A TREE. 



A tree is one of nature's words, a word of peace to man ; 

 A word that tells of central strength from whence all things 



began ; 

 A word to preach tranquillity to all our restless clan. 



Ah, bare must be the shadeless ways, and bleak the path 



must be, 

 Of him who, having open eyes, has never learned to see, 

 And so has never learned to love the beauty of a tree. 



Who loves a tree, he loves the life that springs iu stars and 



clod, 

 He loves the love that gilds the clouds, and greens the April 



sod; 

 He loves the Wide Beneficence; his soul takes hold on Cod. 



— From "Arhor and Bird Day Manual for 

 North Carolina, 1915." 



