serve, plenty of good paying work during the winter, 

 when it is most needed. Every state has areas that 

 are not arable, and such, but only such, should be 

 held permanently under forests. "(*) 



"The best available estimates show that there is 

 approximately 13,000,000 acres of unimproved land 

 in the twenty-two northern counties. Most of this 

 land has a good soil, is free from rocks and is well 

 adapted to farming, so that eventually probably 

 10,000,000 acres will be used in some form of agri- 

 culture, leaving some 3,000,000 acres for forest 

 growth. 



"It should be understood that these figures are 

 mere estimates, based upon the best available figures, 

 but they are probably approximately correct in the 

 proportion of agricultural to non-agricultural land 

 and give some idea of the situation. 



"It need not be feared that the State Board of 

 Forestry will try to class agricultural as forest land, 

 for i.t is one of the main tenets of forestry that tim- 

 ber should not be held upon land suited to agri- 

 culture, as there is enough land in every country 

 which is suited only to forest growth. However, 

 although foresters receive some training in soil analy- 

 sis, they are not experts and should not attempt to 

 finally classify lands, where the question is a close 

 one to decide, as it is in so many sections of northern 

 Wisconsin."(t) 



"Town and county officials and land companies 

 are naturally loath to admit that any of their land 

 is non-agricultural, and they are prone to charge 

 foresters with discouraging settlement. But the 

 tenets of forestry are that no land should be kept for 

 forestry that is more valuable for agriculture, and 

 certainly the Forestry Board would be inclined to 

 welcome settlers in the forest reserve as they would 

 usually prove good workmen whose interests would 

 be identical with those of the state. 



"But the Forestry Board would be doing a great 

 wrong to encourage any man to locate on an isolated 

 tract of rather doubtful agricultural land in the heart 



* Report 1906, Page 7. 



t Report 1909-'10, Page 59. 



