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Manufacturers' Association, said that his Association wished to coope- 

 rate with us in every way possible. His Association, he said, represents 

 about two hundred factories, mostly in North Carolina, which are turn- 

 ing out furniture and allied articles. Mr. "White gave a sketch of 

 the furniture industry in l^orth Carolina and spoke of himself as the 

 father of the chair industry in the South. He was greatly interested in 

 seeing the forests preserved and pledged the cooperation of the South- 

 ern Furniture Manufacturers' Association in the efforts of the Forestry 

 Association to protect and preserve the forests of the State. 



Mr. Z. W. Whitehead, of Wilmington, editor of the Southern Lumber 

 Journal, spoke for the lumber fraternity and pledged their support in 

 this movement. Thinking that the lumbermen as a class had been 

 reflected upon in one of the talks, Mr. Whitehead defended the ISTorth 

 Carolina lumbermen from the charge of vandalism. The average lum- 

 berman, he said, is not so ruthless as might be thought. He had found 

 the sawmill men a great deal more conscientious than the fire vandal. 

 The State suffers very much more from the firebug than from the acts 

 of the lumberman. 



The meeting was then adjourned, notice being given by the President 

 of the illustrated lecture of Mr. J. G. Peters in the Auditorium at 

 eight o'clock in the evening. 



Evening Session. 



The evening session of the Convention was held in the Auditorium. 

 In the absence of the President, Mr. J. S. Holmes, Secretary of the 

 Association, introduced Mr. J. G. Peters, of the United States Forest 

 Service, to an audience of something over two hundred people, including 

 a considerable number of school children. 



Mr. Peters then gave the following short introductory address on the 

 general principles of forestry, which was followed by an illustrated 

 lecture : 



GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF FORESTRY. 

 By J. G. Peters, United States Forest Service. 



Members of the North Carolina Forestry Association. Ladies and Gentlemen: 

 The question is often asked, "What is Forestry?" which reminds me of an 

 incident that happened soon after I arrived at New Haven to enter the Yale 

 Forest School, something over ten years ago. Those were the early days, 

 and the school had yet to graduate its first class. Walking across the campus 

 I met a friend, then in college, from my home city, Baltimore. He wanted 

 to know what I was doing up there, and I replied that I was studying for- 

 estry. "Forestry!" he exclaimed; "Forestry! for heaven's sake, what's for- 

 estry?" Although forestry is a much commoner word now than it was then. 



