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to forestry, but here comes the governor and prominent poHticians 

 and say they must certainly have $100,000 for the St. Louis Exposi- 

 tion ; they must have a lot of money for the state university ; they 

 .must build some more buildings at the state experiment station ; they 

 have four insane hospitals and many other public institutions which 

 must be supported. Members from all parts of the state are clamor- 

 ing for money, and they will have it; and while they are friendly 

 to forestry, unless you have a man who makes forestry a specialty 

 and fights for it with energy, we shall not get money for forestry. 



Now I trust that when you go home and in due time come to elect 

 senators and representatives you will say to the candidate, "My 



Non-agricultural land near Ely, Minn., from which white pine forest has been cut. 



friend, promise me one thing — that you will give earnest support 

 to forestry measures." 



What forestry means for Minnesota is simply this : The remain- 

 ing original pine timber will be cut in the next fifteen years. Some 

 second growth pine, if protected from fire, will then be cut from year 

 to year, but it will not be as good as the original growth, and there 

 will not be enough of it for home consumption. Lumber will be 

 dearer, and our great lumber industry will decline. There are, how- 

 ever, fully three million acres of waste land in scattered localities 

 which if planted with pine would in time become normal forests 

 yielding forever a supply sufficient for our home need. Such forests 

 would by their growth perpetually yield a net annual revenue on 



