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60 per cent of what is left lies west of the Great Plains, far from 

 the bulk of the country's population, agriculture, and manufac- 

 ture. The country is taking about 26 billi6n feet of wood from 

 forests each year and is growing only 6 billion. 



Much Idle Land. 



"We have used up our forests without growing new ones," 

 says the report. "At the bottom of the whole problem is idle 

 forest land. The United States contains 326 million acres of 

 cut-over or denuded forest containing no saw timber; 81 mil- 

 lion acres of this amount have been completely devastated by 

 forest fires and methods of cutting which destroy or prevent new 

 timber growth. 



"The area of idle or largely idle land is being increased by 

 from 3 to 4 million acres annually as the cutting and burning of 

 forests continues." These facts, together with the steadily in- 

 creasing distance between the average sawmill and the home 

 builder, "have had a vital bearing on the high cost of lumber, 

 which during the year reached a prohibitive figure for many 

 uses and checked the building of homes which is so urgently 

 needed." — Jf'ecklv A^cws Letter. 



ANIMAL INDUSTRY EXPANSION IN HAWAII. 



By Prof. R. J. Borden. 



Let's give the animal a chance to make good -in those parts of 

 Hawaii which are unsuited to our main industries. Let's show 

 our present and future homesteaders the possibilities of animal 

 production which have been only recently shown to the old cot- 

 ton farmers of the South. It will mean w^ork and cooperation 

 by everyone, but it can be done. It should be done to take away 

 the "black eye" that homesteading seems to have and atone for 

 the many failures made by past homesteaders. 



There have been and are some successful homesteaders here, 

 -and an analysis of their success will in nearly all cases show that 

 animal industry has been the big factor. The man who will 

 market his field crops directly or indirectly through some animal 

 is building on a solid foundation and has little to fear from any 

 of us. 



Almost all home-loving men would like to have a place of their 

 own where they might have a few chickens, some hogs and a 

 cow or two. We all look forward to the time when we can 

 settle downi on a small farm of our own. None of us use canned 

 milk or cream by preference, or break our "fresh California 



