or in part, selling butter-fat, pork, sugar, starch, and return.- 

 ing all the rest to the land. But this can be done most suc- 

 cessfully by attracting to that country settlers who like and 

 are adapted to dairying. The co-operative creamery, cheese 

 factory, bacon factory, starch factory, and related industries, 

 spring up and develop with vigor when a community of this 

 kind is organized. 



In other areas it will be evident from the location or char- 

 acter of the land that the forest crops must always dominate, 

 and the other industries must be based on that. The lands 

 best suited to forestry and largely only adapted for this pur- 

 pose may, under wise management be made to yield an an- 

 nual or average net return on a long time investment of not 

 less than $2.00 per acre per annum, and often $5.00 and more. 

 Many foreign countries are securing large revenues annually 

 from state forests. The state forests of Hungary yield a 

 net revenue of $600,000 annually. France has 20,000,000 acres 

 of state forest which yield a net revenue of over $2.00 per 

 acre, and she has recently reforested over 2,600,000 acres. 

 The net returns of the forests of Switzerland range from 

 $3.00 to $9.00 per acre per annum. Saxony has nearly a half 

 million acres of state forest, yielding an annual net return 

 of $5.00 per acre. Prussia's seven million acres yield $2.50 

 net per acre each year. These forests were started nearly 

 150 years ago, because Germany at that time, with respect 

 to her forests, was about in the stage of development that we 

 are now. She had to replant to protect her streams, as well 

 as to provide necessary forest products and put to use her 

 unproductive lands. Nearly every country in Europe is in- 

 creasing its forest area with profit. 



The United States has now also a well defined forest policy 

 which should be defended and supported for the future wel- 

 fare of our people. Some of our states have also had the fore- 

 sight to prepare for the future needs of their citizens. New 

 York has 1,600,000 acres of state forest; Pennsylvania, 980,- 

 000 acres; Wisconsin, $500,000. There is no doubt that much 

 larger areas will soon be included. 



There are probably millions of acres of land in Minnesota 

 that should be devoted permanently to forest crops. That 

 would yield a large net return of millions of dollars per year 



