A Road Makes the Best Kind of Fire Line Through the Forest. 

 Photo Taken in Park Rapids District. 



Forestry More Profitable Than Agriculture. 



The great North German plain, in the region of Kreutz, a 

 few hours east of Berlin, is now being rapidly reforested. 

 Forestry has been found more profitable than agriculture in 

 the sandy soils of that region. The same is true of much of 

 the sandy land of Northern Michigan. It is also true of the 

 more sandy lands of North Central Minnesota and Wisconsin. 

 Much cut-over land in all three of these states, now being 

 sold for agriculture, should never be used for that purpose. 

 It should be kept in forest or if destroyed should be refor- 

 ested. It will yield a good profit in trees and at most a bare 

 living in other crops. 



A soil classification survey is necessary before these acres 

 can be positively determined. The possession of such infor- 



