26 SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 



Committee on Nominations. — Mr. Alston Grimes, Miss Annie F. 

 Petty, Dr. C. H. Herty, Mr. W. S. Pharr, Mr. C. C. Smoot, III. 



Auditing Committee.— Mr. D. A. White, Mr. K. E. Gotten, Mr. Z. W. 

 Whitehead. 



The Gonvention then adjourned to meet at three o'clock. 



Afternoon Session. 



The afternoon session was called to order by President Hill at 3 :10 

 o'clock, in the Hall of the House of Eepresentatives. Mr. Alston 

 Grimes, of Pitt Gounty, a vice-president of the Association, was intro- 

 duced and gave an interesting talk on the profits in forest management 

 in Pitt Gounty, and the efforts being made to keep out fires. 



He told first of a neighbor of his who bought a tract of land for $500 

 from which he had sold $3,500 worth of timber, retaining still the land 

 and much of the timber. The neighbor, he said, had preserved the 

 forests by prohibiting hunting. "I have not been successful myself in 

 this respect," Mr. Grimes said, "but after giving written permission I 

 do not allow the hunter to carry an axe and chop the 'possum tree down." 



Mr, Grimes said he required all of his tenants to pay five dollars an 

 acre when fire is allowed to run over land for which they are responsible. 

 "They think it is a hardship at first, but agree afterwards that it is the 

 right thing." 



Mr. G. G. Smoot, III, of Wilkes Gounty, another vice-president, then 

 gave a short account of the Wilkes way of fighting fires where a neigh- 

 borhood war was waged against the blazes of the community. He said 

 he had become greatly interested in the fight against the blight which is 

 killing the chestnut trees in the States to the north of us and which 

 threatens to invade our own State. 



Mrs. Al Fairbrother, a delegate from the Woman's Glub of Greens- 

 boro, was then called upon by the President to say a word upon the 

 subject from the viewpoint of the ladies. She said she had not come as 

 a speaker or as a suggester, but as a learner. She said that the Woman's 

 Glub in Greensboro was going upon the principle that one of the chief 

 civic works was to educate the children in conservation. She told of some 

 of the work done by the ladies of Greensboro, such as the recent estab- 

 lishment of a children's playground there, which is the first public play- 

 ground in North Garolina. This was accomplished entirely through the 

 work of the Givie Association. 



The President then called on Mr. W. D. Johnson, a colored man who 

 is Agent of the United States Forest Service now temporarily stationed 



