THE Association is making preparations to conduct an 

 extensive campaign in behalf of No. 9, the State Forests 

 amendment. Amendments are as a rule exceedingly 

 diffiuclt to pass and this year the task will be greater than 

 eve,r. As there are eleven amendments on the ballot in addi- 

 tion to the many other tickets which will be presented, it will 

 be only too easy to overlook the amendments. Two Forestry 

 measures will be submitted to the consideration of the voter, 

 both of which are important. 



No. 8 is a provision to establish tree bounties in order to en- 

 courage the raising of trees. No. 9 provides for the establish- 

 ment of State Forests on those State lands which are unfit 

 for farming. Both amendments are very important and both 

 of them should be passed, but in consideration of the fact that 

 it is very difficult to conduct a campaign for two amendments 

 and be successful in both, it was thought advisable to center 

 all efforts on one and one only, with the hope that the other 

 one will be carried also, owing to the publicity given to the 

 most important one. At the convention last spring it was de- 

 cided that No. 9 was by far the more important and the Asso- 

 ciation is therefore preparing a thorough campaign in order 

 to make this measure a reality. 



The adoption of No. 9, the State Forests Amendment, will be 

 of untold benefit to the State. It will not only provide us with 

 a aeflnite forest policy, but it will also put Minnesota in the 

 lead of any State in the Union pertaining to matters of fores- 

 try. Minnesota is leading her sister states in many other 

 ways, why should she not also be the leader in forestry. 



The Mistake of Our Gr.andsires. 



Briefly the conditions which have brought the need for an 

 amendment like No. 9 are these: When our forefathers, in 

 1858, planned for our welfare, they thought all the lands in 

 Minnesota could be farmed, and so provided that all State lands 

 should be sold. But, as our great pineries were stripped off, 



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