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ments since they are not subject to destructive forest 

 fires. So much for the forest. 



Finally, I am the director of the Biltmore Forest 

 School, established at Biltmore, North Carolina, in 

 1898. I am delighted, though it makes me feel old, to 

 see so many of my. former pupils present in this hall. 

 Permit me to use this chance for reminding them for- 

 cibly of my old demands and unceasing teachings — so 

 often repeated with the regularity of a canary bird or of 

 a whippoorwill — ^keep constantly before your eyes the 

 fact that forestry subserves lumbering, that forestry is 

 lumbering to a very large extent. 



Silviculture and lumbering together will, I think, 

 compose the work of the forester in this country for 

 many a year to come. The greater portion of prac- 

 tical wood's work will lie in the line of lumbering, and 

 the lesser part will consist of silviculture merely be- 

 cause silviculture is not as safe an investment at 

 present, nor is it as remunerative as lumbering. 



The time will come when the reserve will be the 

 case. It will come when the superiority of conserva- 

 tive lumbering over destructive lumbering is clearly 

 evidenced by the larger number of dollars which con- 

 servative lumbering can draw as a dividend from the 

 forest. 



Address by Rutherford P. Hayes 



President, The Appalachian Forest Reserve Association 



C O far most of the discussions here have related to 

 the extreme West. The problems that they are 

 working out there we have with us in the Southern 

 Appalachians. The effect of destroying the forests 

 and filling up the rivers is comparable with what is 

 going on now on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge 



