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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
their cattle, hogs and other domestic an¬ 
imals confined in pastures or enclosures, 
and make the live stock owners liable for 
damages to persons or property of others 
within that county, and be it further 
Resolved , That candidates for the leg¬ 
islature be requested to state their position 
on this subject before the primaries in or¬ 
der that all the voters may know what to 
expect at the next session of the legisla¬ 
ture of those who are elected. 
Whereas , The available supply of tim- 
9 
ber in the United States is being cut about 
four times as rapidly as new timber crops 
are being grown, and the marketing of 
fruits and vegetables grown in Florida is 
dependent upon an adequate supply of 
crate material for future years, while the 
development of the State's resources will 
require large quantities of lumber for res¬ 
idences and other building purposes, and 
Whereas , Nature in Florida is being 
greatly handicapped in providing for the 
future requirements through the frequent 
burning of the woods and denuded areas 
by the open range cattlemen to get a lit¬ 
tle green grass for their stock resulting 
in destruction of untold quantities of mer¬ 
chantable timber and prevention of nat¬ 
ural reforestation of cut over lands, there¬ 
fore be it 
Resolved , That the Florida State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, in its Thirty-Fifth An¬ 
nual Convention at Lakeland on May 4, 
1922, recommend the enactment of a law 
creating a State forestry commission au¬ 
thorized to inaugurate a reforestation pro¬ 
gram and charged with enforcement of 
laws to prevent setting out of fires on any 
property other than that of the owner. 
M. G. Campbell, Chairman. 
W. W. Yothers. 
A. A. Coult. 
Resolutions Committee. 
