of the public through the state rangers and patrolmen, who 

 should also be able to give evidence on the source of fires 

 starting from the outside. The Farmers' Institutes were also 

 suggested as a means of educating the people of the country 

 districts in the care of fire. These things the service will 

 undoubtedly do. They have been working on them, but have 

 not been organized long enough to show much result. 



On the whole the meeting was a great success. It furnished 

 an opportunity for the exchange of ideas, brought into closer 

 touch the railroads and the State Forest Service, and showed 

 all parties concerned that the watchword must be co-operation 

 and not antagonism. 



How to Set Apart the State's Non-Agricultural 

 Lands for Forestry Purposes 



By General C. C. Andrews, 

 Secretary of the Forestry Board. 



THE school and swamp lands which have been granted to 

 the State of Minensota and which the state still holds 

 are supposed to aggregate about three million acres. 

 The disposal of these lands is regulated to some extent by 

 provisions of the Constitution which the legislature alone 

 cannot change. Article VIII of the Constitution provides that 

 the school lands shall be sold at public sale; also provides 

 that all swamp lands shall be appraised and sold in the same 

 manner and by the same officers, and the minimum price shall 

 be the same, less one-third, as provided by law for the ap- 

 praisement and sale of the school lands under the provisions 

 of title one of chapter thirty-eight of the General Statutes. 

 This chapter thirty-eight of the General Statutes is thus made 

 a part of the Constitution. It provides that the State Auditor 

 shall be Land Commissioner and gives him general charge and 

 supervision of all lands belonging to the State. He can cause 

 an appraisal of lands whenever he thinks it for the interest 



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