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Carolina has not the habit of saving; and the owners of the small forests 

 ordinarily do not look far enough into the future to properly preserve their 

 forests. 



The forests of Germany and France and other European countries pay 

 handsome incomes to the owners, whether state, municipal, or private, and 

 the same conditions will prevail in this country. A Maine timberland owner 

 told me a short time ago that he was cutting his timber under the direction 

 of a trained forester, that he was cutting a large amount each year, but in 

 spite of this the value of the land was steadily going up and the yield in- 

 creasing. 



I am in hearty sympathy with this work. We must not expect perfect laws 

 all at once, but let us get a start and soon we will have an educated people 

 who will adopt improved forestry methods. The earth was given not to one 

 generation, but to all generations, and no man should think he has a right 

 to destroy all the forests from the land in this generation, and then leave 

 the next without timber, when by proper methods all generations can enjoy 

 profits from the forests. A man has only temporary control of land; when 

 he dies he leaves it to some other one. Because of this temporary owner- 

 ship, because this land is being held in trust for generations to come, we 

 have no right to destroy its future value and usefulness, whether it is farm 

 land or forest land. 



I gladly welcome you, and trust your deliberations will be productive of 

 great good. 



The President, Dr. D. H. Hill, made a short reply to the Governor's 

 address of welcome and then delivered his annual address, in which he 

 outlined the objects of the Association and strongly urged a campaign of 

 publicity, both through the local papers of the State and by meetings 

 gotten up by the various officials and members of the Association. 



T^HAT CA?f WE DO TO PREVENT FOREST WASTE? 



By D. H. Hill, President North Carolina College of AcRicvLTrRE and 

 Mechanic Arts. 



Nations, like individuals and like corporations, have three ways of adding 

 to their wealth: 



First, by making m.ore saleable products and making them at reduced cost 

 and marketing them to better advantage. 



Second, by utilizing hitherto waste products. 



Third, by a wise management of the resources with which nature has 

 endowed them. 



In our country many forces are at work to increase the national output at 

 lowered cost. Especially is this true of farm products. The agricultural 

 colleges and experiment stations, the national and State departments of agri- 

 culture, the farm papers, and farmers' organizations, like the Farmers' Union 

 and Soil Fertility Leagues, are bending every effort to make the soil reward 

 man's industry by a richer return and to reduce both the money and the 

 labor cost. Technical schools, too, are sending forth equipped engineers, in- 

 dustrial clubs are standardizing manufacturing plants, and in many cases 



