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of the American Forestry Association for this kind of work was mentioned by 

 several of the speakers. 



Mr. J. Randall Williams said in telling how he had been interested in several 

 tracts of timber in North Carolina which the natives were cutting at their small 

 saw mills: 



"I think the proper thing for me to have had done at that time, had I realized 

 that they were wasting lumber, would have been to have come to the forestry 

 association, gotten literature and taken it to them and showed them. The same 

 way now, I think the lumbermen, if they only realized that they could teach 

 these men a great many things, they could show the individual saw mills they 

 would do so, because you will find, in many cases, those saw mills are supported 

 by the lumbermen, who advance the money to carry them along. Therefore, it 

 is the lumber men who teach them and if you will take the trouble, it might 

 relieve the situation somewhat. 



The point is, how are you going to interest the lumbermen? I think the 

 best way to do that is to get them interested in forestry work. I would like to 

 ask a question. Do we not owe a great deal to the American Forestry Association 

 for these reports. 



The Chairman: You owe everything to the American Forestry Association 

 for these reports. The American Forestry Association secured the funds for 

 the printing and for the expenses that were incurred in the preparation of the 

 reports by the sub-committees and handled all the routine and business of 

 printing them and we are greatly indebted to the American Forestry Association 

 and its officers for getting them out in time and in their very fine shape. 



Mr. Williams: That is what I understood, and I think we owe a vote of 

 thanks to the Association for these excellent reports. What came to my mind 

 was this: As a member of the Philadelphia Wholesale Association, I would 

 furnish you with a list of the members and ask you, as long as the reports hold 

 out, to send each member of our Association a copy of them, and personally 

 write to them, as a member of the forestry association of our association, calling 

 their attention to the fact that these reports are going to be sent to them and the 

 valuable information they can get from them. In that way you can get more peo- 

 ple interested in the American Forestry Association which, to all, is the cause of 

 the stimulation of the interest which has brought about so much work. I hope 

 when we go away from here we will try to get more members for the American 

 Forestry Association and more people interested in the work that they are doing? 

 (Applause.) 



The meeting adjourned at 9 :30 p. m. Tuesday, November 18, 1913. 



