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seriously considered, because of their value as an asset in the com- 

 munity and in the state. You all know how little of the primeval 

 forest is now standing. I have in mind one instance in Wisconsin 

 where a lumber mill was about to give up its operation, it having 

 exhausted the territory that it had been operating in for perhaps forty 

 or fifty years. Near the mill was a very beautiful grove of old pine, 

 and in going along that stream, I called the attention of one of the 

 owners of the company and pointed out to him the fact that if he 

 could save certain lines of trees along the edges of the stream, that 

 he could retain all that beauty and still make a very considerable 

 cutting. Next year I went over the ground again and that mill had 

 been pulled down and they had saved over a million feet of lumber. 

 That shows what will be done by the owner of a forest in many 

 cases if the matter is simply called to his attention. They do appre 

 ciate the beauty of the forest and are glad to save it. In a part of 

 Massachusetts a grove of pines was about to be cut by a man who 

 operated in a small way in the eastern part of the state and he was 

 willing to yield up his cutting if the money be secured by subscrip- 

 tion to warrant him in holding it. It was the only remnant of a very 

 old pine grove that was in eastern Massachusetts. 



Professor Lazenby: I am certainly gratified that this subject 

 finds a place in this Congress of Horticulture. Forestry is perhaps 

 somewhat alien to strict horticultural work, but I believe all horti- 

 culturists should be interested in this subject. The particular phase 

 in Ohio that is being carried on now with some degree of success is 

 the planting of those quick growing species that are valuable for posts 

 and poles, mainly such as the catalpa, the yellow locust, the mulberry 

 and osage orange. These are being planted now quite generally. I 

 think out of our eighty-eight counties there are plantations in cer- 

 tainly eight of the counties to a greater or less extent that have been 

 made within the last three years. In some of the counties many plant- 

 ings had been made before, but in one of the central counties of the 

 state over one hundred acres of catalpa were planted this past spring. 



I should like, while I am on my feet, just to emphasize if I could 

 the importance of timber growth, the importance of looking upon it, 

 as Professor Rane says, as a farm crop. Farm forestry is the only 

 forestry we will have in time, but then somebody has said that our 

 whole civilization rests almost wholly on wood. I do not believe 

 unless we think of it a little bit, that we realize how wood follows 

 us right from the cradle to the grave. When we are born, the 

 first thing we are put in is a wooden cradle or basket ; as soon as we 

 can sit up, we sit on a chair or bench that is made of wood, and we 

 continue to use that material all through our lives. We never sit 

 down to read without sitting before a table of wood, when we read a 

 newspaper it is made of wood, and when we die, without exception we 

 are put in a box that is made of wood. It is not, however, for the 

 wood alone. I am glad that Mr. Manning made the plea on the 

 esthetic side, and I hope that we will emphasize that side of the ques- 

 tion also. There is great beauty in trees. I never see a fine speci- 



