the object of the meeting of the Minnesota State Forestry 

 Association on March 24th and 25th to see that these old law- 

 makers get justice. It is a problem of vital interest to the 

 state as a whole. It is not a sectional question. The main- 

 tenance of these forests in the North are quite as vital to 

 the counties in the South as they are to the counties in which 

 the forests grow. It is a state-wide problem and demands 

 state-wide attention. We are proud of our school fund. We 

 want that fund to grow. Why then do we sell land for a pit- 

 tance which will bring big yields if retained? We owe it to 

 our schools to make the change. Our ancestors viewed the 

 conditions and the facts as they saw them and made laws 

 which we have thought worth supporting for fifty years. Let 

 us do the same now. Let us make some laws of which our 

 children can be proud and 1 not have the future generations 

 curse us for the millions that we have lost for them. 



Receipts from the use of national forest resources were great- 

 est in Arizona last year. 



Dr. C. D. Marsh of the federal bureau of plant industry is de- 

 livering a series of illustrated lectures to stockmen in the West 

 on the subject of plants poisonous to stock. 



The forest service is compiling a new volume table for calculat- 

 ing the board contents of standing Western yellow pine trees in 

 the Southwest. It is based on actual measurements of 6,000 trees. 



In trying to find uses for blight-killed chestnut it has been 

 found that it cannot be utilised for crating stone ; quarry owners 

 say that chestnut wood leaves an indelible stain on the marble 

 or granite. 



Railroads caused nearly half the forest fires in Colorado and 

 Wyoming last year, and almost one-sixth were set by lightning. 

 In California lightning started more than half,' with railroads a 

 comparatively insignificant cause. 



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