Are Other States Doing 

 Anything in Forestry? 



Yes. To begin with the United 

 States Government has set aside 

 over a hundred million acres of lancl 

 for forest reserves, an area nearly 

 three times as large as all Michigan, 

 to be devoted to raising timber. New 

 York has over a million acres and 

 is buying more. Pennsylvania is buy- 

 ing all her run-down lands and pays 

 up to $5 per acre for them; she means 

 to raise timber. Connecticut and 

 Massachusetts are doing the same 

 thing and are getting plenty of lands 

 at from $i to $4 per acre, lands which 

 were "all farm land" before Michi- 

 gan was a State. Our neighbor, Wis- 

 consin, has set aside all her State 

 lands as forest reserve. Minnesota 

 has forest reserves, and the good work 

 is extending clear out to California 

 and Washington, which have State 

 forests. We in Michigan have made 

 the merest beginning, we are in the 

 rear of the procession and ought to 

 be at the front. 



But How About Fires? 

 They Can Not Be Stopped. 



To begin with, the people of 

 France, Germany, Scandinavia and 

 Austria have large expanses of pin- 

 ery on sandy lands. They have pre- 

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