is interested in the success of the Newlands River Regulation 

 bill and the Lever Co-operative Agricultural Extension bill 

 notwithstanding the objectors who say the latter is an in- 

 sidious bounty idea calculated to put the farmer on a Federal 

 pension roll! 



It is a matter for heartfelt congratulation that we have a 

 secretary of the Interior with so sane and comprehensive a 

 view of the proper administration of our country's undeveloped 

 resources, so in accord with that of Mr. Gifford Pinchot and 

 other prominent conservationists. No longer, he tells us, does 

 the old philosophy, " land is land" dominate our policy. The 

 new conception that land should be used for that purpcse to 

 which it is best fitted and should be disposed of by the gov- 

 ernment with respect to that use, has been evolved. In har- 

 mony with that progressive idea he proposes to sell the land 

 and the timber separately and apply the homestead law to 

 only such land as has been declared fitted for agriculture. " To 

 my mind there can be no more promising provision for the 

 preservation of cur forests. Too long has timber land under 

 the homestead law blanket been despoiled by speculators. 



We are glad to ncte that our State Forester, Mr. Wm. Cox, 

 has advanced this same policy for Minnesota in its treatment 

 of its several million acres in the northern part of the state, 

 mostly forested, and a very considerable part totally unfit for 

 agriculture. It certainly seems the part of wisdom that 

 the merchantable timber be disposed of under such restric- 

 tions as will perpetuate the forests. 



We clubwomen regret we can't vote for the proposed amend- 

 ment increasing our state forests by using non-agricultural 

 forested school land. 



As I have traveled over the northern section at rather long 

 intervals, I have been surprised and delighted at the fertile 

 fields with their abundant crops and comfortable homes where 

 formerly the forest primeval had stood. But on the other hand 

 I have been shocked at the ravages of fire and at the many 

 ugly, raw, pioneer-looking towns, devoid of beauty with no 

 vestige of these majestic pines left, no saving forest park, not 

 one redeeming trace of beauty in a spot for which Nature 

 had done so much. 



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