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should be preserved. It is one of the most important economic 

 features in this State, because on it depends, to a certain extent, 

 the amount of our fruit products. There is no question about it. 

 When the last stick of timber is razed from Minnesota, you will 

 have the same temperature in this State that ordinarily prevails 

 in Dakota, and that is going to be decisive against many of our 

 productions. 



We all know that in Europe there are forest laws. I don't 

 hope to have action taken by the people of Minnesota or any 

 other Xorth western state, from sentimental reasons, for the pres- 

 ervation of our forests. The only reason that will cause any- 

 thing to be done is the one which will show that it will pay 

 from a financial standpoint. We are a practical people, and 

 look too much to the present and not enough to the future. 

 Xow, I can show that if proper attention were to be paid to 

 forestry, as is done in Europe, a revenue would be afforded, so 

 that hardly a cent of taxes would need to be laid on other indus- 

 tries of the State; the forests would pay for carrying on the 

 expenses of government and we would secure those climatic re- 

 sults which would make it possible to produce other desired 

 products. This has been and is being done in other countries, 

 and should be done here. It is not a chimerical project; it has 

 already been tested elsewhere; it is not much credit to our civil- 

 ization when we pay absolutely no attention to the preservation 

 of our forests. 



Mr. Smith. Mr. President, I want to heartily second every- 

 thing that Prof. Maginnis has said. This is a very important 

 matter. A very small body of timber will show very marked 

 results. At the recent meeting of the Dakota Horticultural 

 Society it was stated that a small grove of timber, twenty five or 

 thirty feet high, would show its effects for at least half a mile. 

 I know that a garden on the south and east of a ten-acre patch of 

 timber is earlier than one which has no such protection. And I 

 thinkif we can invade the domain of this King Cold, by planting 

 timber, that we ought to do it. 



Mr. Harris. Mr. President. I have always felt that forestry 

 was the forerunner of horticulture in Minnesota and in the Xorth- 

 west. But it always seemed to me that it was my mission to be 

 one of the followers of the famous apple raisers of my native state 

 of Ohio. Forestry should, however, be the forerunner of horti- 

 culture, and since we have lost that great leader. Mr. Hodges. I 

 don't know but some of us will have to lay aside our horticultu- 



