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ing and forestr}' purposes and adequate fire control 

 are necessary for the sound and reasonably rapid 

 development of Michigan idle lands. 



"9. Settlers must in all cases be established on 

 the good lands only and prevented by an interested 

 state from dissipating their energies on land which 

 cannot be profitably worked. In no case should they 

 be permitted to be persuaded by the occasional igno- 

 rant or unscrupulous land dealer to settle on jack 

 pine and light blueberry plains and other inferior 

 areas. . . . 



"10. Michigan's northern country has been repre- 

 sented both as a great desert from an agricultural 

 standpoint, and as 'cloverland/ a coming Eden. 

 Somewhere between the two statements lies the truth. 

 On the whole, Michigan has in her undeveloped 

 northern country a region of great agricultural po- 

 tentiality, which, if properly developed as farming 

 land, grazing land and forestry land, in accordance 

 with its fitness from a soil and climatic standpoint, 

 will add materially to the wealth and prosperity of 

 the state." ^ 



At this session of the Michigan Academy of Sci- 

 ence, it was resolved that the proper procedure for 

 the reclamation of Michigan's non-productive area 

 should be as follows: "1. That an inventory be made 

 of the land resources of Michigan by counties. This 

 inventory should constitute a series of county reports, 



^"Michigan Tfllo Land.'" Reprinted from tlie 22d Report, 

 Mich. Acad, of Science, 1021, 21. 



