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fairs that it was done. He looked ahead and had it done. The 

 consequence is that Minnesota now has a school fund of $15,000,000, 

 which is likely to be increased at $25,000,000. \\'hat we need is a 

 good, strong man in the legislature who will make forestry a 

 specialty. We have friends in the legislature. They added twelve 

 amendments to our fire warden law in our last legislature. They 

 appropriated $20,000 to extend Itasca State Park. They passed a 

 law authorizing the state forestry board to buy land for forestry 

 purposes at $2.50 per acre, but they failed to appropriate J:he money. 

 This was because there was no man in the legislature to make 

 forestry a specialty, and until we have such a man we will make no 

 particular progress in forestry in Minnesota. 



Jack Pine grove, highest trees, about twenty-six feet high, on the thousand acres in Cass 



County, donated to the state of Minnesota for forestry by the late Ex-Gov. John S. 



Pillsbury. The Forestry Board has prepared a nursery on this land on 



which it will .sow pine and spruce trees this spring. 



We have been discussing forestry for many years in Minnesota. 

 We have a forestry board which has been in operation five years. 

 We have on this board such men as Frederick Weyerhauser, the 

 greatest lumberman in the country, our friend Mr. Owen, John 

 Cooper, who was president of the State Agricultural Society and a 

 lumberman. Prof. S. B. Green, Dr. A. C. Wedge of Albert Lea, 

 and others — in all nine members. We are equipped to plant trees 

 on non-agricultural land, but the legislature has given us no money 

 for that purpose. 



Let us suppose you are members of the finance committee, or 

 the committee on appropriations in the legislature. You are friendly 



