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friends of forestry who were anxious Tener, who is a staunch friend of for- 



that the fight should be continued, estry, has at all times been in hearty 



Fully 200 trained men were engaged in accord to save the chestnut of Penn- 



the battle at one time, and every county sylvania, while the National State for- 



and nook of the State had been thor- estry officials also were always strongly 



oughly scouted when the final orders cooperating with the Chestnut Tree 



to discontinue all further outdoor work Blight Commission, 

 were issued. His Excellency, Governor 



CONSERVATION FOR LUMBERMEN 



A THE recent meeting of the thing else, and if it were made a crim- 



National Lumber Manufacturers inal offense, and if the very fact of 



Association in Chicago, Capt. your finding the tops of trees in the 



J. B. White, of Kansas City, woods, scattered throughout the forests, 



Mo., reporting as chairman of the con- were regarded as prima facie evidence 



servation committee, outlined in vigor- that you had violated the law by com- 



ous language just what conservation of mitting waste, there should be some 



the forests does mean now and may way of going to the penitentiary, or else 



mean in the future for the lumbermen, making the price high enough so that 



He said in part on this subject: you could afford to bring that log in. 



"I believe that conservation is good "Now, if we can not get together 



for about all the ills that lumbermen and agree upon a method that is prac- 



are heirs to. I believe it will cure all tical and economical and possible, somt 



the ills that afflict the lumber body. I of our legislators and politicians ought 



believe that if we would conserve, if to pass laws that would be so drastic 



we could legally conserve our timber that we could not escape saving our 



resources, that we would be doing some- forests without going to the peniten- 



thing of benefit to ourselves in this gen- tiary. Now, that is not an overdrawn 



eration, and to all succeeding genera- picture ; it is an absolute fact. I think 



tions, and everyone says, 'That is our that we are committing a crime if we 



duty.' They say it is the duty of us waste our trees and leave nothing for 



individually to practice conservation, future generations, 

 but it is a crime if we get together and 



agree upon a method of conservation ; TREE-PLANTING LOGIC. 



and that is the position we are in. We "We have been told that we should 



are told that we should conserve; we plant trees. We have found by ob- 



are told that we should make no more servation, by examining the forests of 



lumber than the market requires ; we foreign countries, that trees are planted 



are told that we should market and sell and can be planted here at a profit, but 



everything in that tree when we cut not when we can buy trees already 



that tree down, and yet we are not grown for half the amount that it will 



permitted to get together and agree on cost to grow them. Unless we can get 



how this can be done economically, for our stumpage something near what 



And so I have said that I wish some it will cost to grow a poor substitute in 



one would do it for us a second-growth tree, we are not going 



"I wish it were possible for the Na- to practice conservation ; and as a wise 



tion to pass a law, uniform in all the old solon he is not old he may not 



States, that would make it a crime to be here ; I do not see him ; he was here 



leave any part of the tree in the woods this morning I call him a wise old 



that would make lumber good enough solon, but we used to call him the silver- 



for a hog pen, a sidewalk, or for sheath- tongued orator when he attended our 



ing on a house, for boxes or for any- conventions some years ago he said 



