Transcriber’s Notes: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_), and text enclosed by equal signs is in bold (=bold=). Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end. * * * * * [Illustration: WALTER DIRECT, 2:05-3/4.] * * * * * TROTWOOD’S MONTHLY VOL. 1. NASHVILLE, TENN., OCTOBER, 1905. NO. 1 Luther Burbank _He touched the spiculed desert--cacti-cursed-- And turned its thorns to figs, its thistles, fruit; He nodded to the daisy, half immersed In dwarfing dust, and lo! a lily mute Rose from the weeds--a perfume with a flute._ _And flowers ran to meet him--trailing vine-- And wild hedge-roses--they whose souls had died Beneath the feet of cattle and of kine-- Sought him--those pallid Magdalenes--and cried To touch his hem, and so stood glorified._ _Trees dwarfed and soulless--fruits with hearts of stone, Wedded at his word; and in the sacred tryst Of loves united, that had yearned alone, Gave to the world the nectar of their bliss In pitless peaches, crimsoned with a kiss._ _Who plants his poems in a berry’s bed, Or writes, with wild roses, sonnets to the sun, Hangs pictures on orchard boughs in gold and red, Makes epics of fruitland where before were none, Is Poet, Painter, Preacher--Master--all in one!_ JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE. Benefits of Forestry to Farmers BY PERCY BROWN, OF EWELL FARM. Note.--Mr. Brown is a practical forester, having been chief forester for the Houston Oil Co. and a graduate of Biltmore Forest School.--Ed. The preservation of our forests is an imperative business necessity. We have come to see that whatever destroys the forest, except to make way for agriculture, threatens our well being.--President Roosevelt. With abundant supplies of timber for farm consumption, farmers of the South have been inclined to regard the question of forest preservation merely as a matter of sentiment, and have come to look upon the forester as an impracticable sort of sentimentalist, whose main object in life is to keep some lumberman from cutting his timber. This indifference has resulted in the loss of the support of the farming element to the cause of forestry, whereas the lumberman who at one time considered the forester his natural enemy and the forestry cause a clog in the wheels of progress, immediately began to investigate the question with a view of combatting forest legislation and the creation of a forestry sentiment throughout the country. The result was that a thorough understanding of the objects of forestry and the aims of the forester has caused the lumbermen and lumber associations to give their unqualified support to all practical forestry legislation. And in the Southern States we find that the only journal of any importance that is persistently advocating forestry as a business is one of the foremost lumber journals south of the Ohio River.