I have been requested by hundreds of farmers, as well as others who are interested in the protection of the forest, to ask that when you call the special session of the Legislature that you include in the call "for the protection of the Forests", along with the other purposes you are to convene it for.

We are in a deplorable condition in this section of the state, farms are being deserted & towns overcrowded from rural districts, owing to the fact that the ordinary stock is permitted to run at large, destroying forests and farms, with no timber available to fence the farms no range at large even if we had labor and money to do so and as the farmers are determined to make an effort in the coming Legislature for relief, both protection of the forests and farms, and having made a fight on this line for the last twenty years I am receiving letters and communications daily, asking that I write you, and many of them say they will write you, begging you to include in your call "for the protection of the Forests."

I believe we will have no trouble in getting relief if the Legislature can act upon such matters at a special session. It is not a question of sentiment any longer but it is one of necessity. If the people are to be permitted to rule in place of the "seed-tick and piney-woods rooter", the latter producing no revenue but retarding progress along every line.

Thanking you in advance for the interest that you may take in this matter, I am,