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the Appalachian Mountains will largely destroy the opportunity 

 which nature has given the South to increase in wealth and prosper- 

 ity. Upon the continuance of this forest cover depends almost 

 entirely the water power, navigation, and agriculture of the region 

 south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of the Mississippi. 



MRS. liYDIA PHILLIPS WILLIAMS, 



Federation of Women's Clubs. 



I want to extend to you the fraternal greetings of the Federation 

 of Women's Clubs, 800,000 strong, a reserve force which to-day is 

 increasing, and whose interest in forestry is perhaps as great as that 

 in any department of its work. The department of forestry in the 

 federation was created only two years ago, yet at the biennial meeting 

 at St. Louis in May only two departments could show as great an 

 increase in interest. * * * in the two years and a few months 

 since that time, 38 federations have formed forestry committees, 

 which are enthusiastically spreading the propaganda for forest re- 

 serves and the necessity of irrigation. 



GEORGE H. MAXWELL, 



Executive Chairman, The National Irrigation Association. 



* * * There is absolutely no question before the people of this 

 country to-day that has as much interest to the commercial, manu- 

 facturing, and mining interests of this country, to say nothing of 

 agriculture, as the one question of forestry. It is not a western ques- 

 tion nor an eastern question; it is a national question. 



OVERTON W. PRICE, 

 Associate Forester, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



* * * The cooperative work of the Bureau began in 1898, with 

 an offer of assistance to private owners in the handling of their wood- 

 lands. From this beginning it has broadened as the direct result of 

 an insistent demand, until it now offers assistance not only in the 

 preparation of working plans, but also in tree planting, either for 

 commercial purposes or for protection, and in discovering the most 

 conservative and profitable methods for the use of the products of the 

 forest. * * * J^ot only has it brought about the use of new and 

 better methods on the ground, but, above and beyond the benefit to 

 the individual cooperator, this work, through the publication of its 

 results, has been a far-reaching influence in furthering the under- 

 standing of the purpose and methods of forestry, without which its 

 general application is impossible. Thus the results of the cooperative 

 work can not be measured alone by the great areas of forest land now 



