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was always water there, water there for my stock summer and 

 winter without fail, but somehow or other the lightning 

 seemed to have some spite against those trees and struck 

 nearly every one of them in the course of six years. I don't 

 know why they should have been there for a century and not 

 been struck, but all at once they were destroyed and died. 

 In the same locality not far from the stumps there sprung up 

 other little shrubs and bushes like, and for a time the water 

 there nearly dried up. It dried up almost wholly for sev- 

 eral summers, so that, in a dry season especially, the cattle 

 could not drink there. There would be a little in the bottom, 

 but no real supply of water. Those trees have grown and 

 they are fine oak trees. This last season there has been 

 plenty of water, and it has been a very dry season. The 

 water has returned and the trees have grown. I cannot un- 

 derstand it. I wish some of you would explain it. That 

 doesn't correspond with Mr. Hinman's experience. 



Secretary GOLD. I want to introduce to the audience 

 Professor Tourney of the School of Forestry in Yale Uni- 

 versity. We will be glad to have him come forward and 

 either explain some of the work that he proposes to do, or 

 you can ask him questions. 



Professor TOUMEY. Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen : 

 I am very sorry that Professor Graves, who is at the head of 

 the School of Forestry, was called away to Washington to 

 attend a meeting of the American Forestry Association, and 

 that he is not here to-day to speak to you at some length re- 

 garding the new School of Forestry at Yale. However, I can 

 say a few things regarding the scope of the work that we pro- 

 pose to do. Professor Brewer has told you something of the 

 conception that a great many people have regarding forestry. 

 That conception has arisen from various so-called forestry 

 associations throughout the country, the members of which 

 have received the idea that forestry consists in planting shade 

 trees and in planting trees for decorative purposes. Now, 



