20 THE BILTMORE FOREST FAIR 



^j *|_ <f M This grove is produced by nature alone, 

 llu llOa 14 a.bsolutely without help, on an abandoned 



' field. It is Yellow Pine, some twenty-five 



to thirty-five years old. Within twenty years, we shall obtain, 

 by way of thinning, as much money from it as we have paid for 

 the land, originally. 



A slope of this character should not be cleared and used — 

 as this one was — agriculturally. Look at these frightful gullies! 



Erosion was rank, in this lot, prior to the time at which the 

 slope was left alone, — left unburned, unpastured, unused! 



We want conservatism, and we want conservation! 



Washington, November 26, 1908. 

 Dear Conservation : 



Conservation, dear Conservation! How I would 

 love to serve you! You are right, good, noble, — ^no- 

 body denies it. 



But helas ! Your service is perfect self restraint,— ? 

 yea, it is, self denial! 



I am so sorry! Yours sisterly, 



AMERICAN LIBERTY. 



Tin Ui\ IE ^® enter a plantation (Browntown plant- 

 IIU llUa lU ^'^'°'^) which forms an everlasting monu- 

 ment for two good men; for Cyrus T. 

 Rankin and for Ernest Allen who have worked with us, in rain 

 and shine, for twelve long years. 



They are -responsible for the success of the plantation at 

 Browntown. 



The land in question, some sixty acres, is poor in the ex- 

 treme; it was burned arid pasturedarid cropped till the occupants 

 had either to sell or to starve. They sold, of course. 



