Retained as state forests and managed according to forestry 

 principles, this area will produce a net annual revenue of at 

 least $2 per acre, or a total of $2,000,000 per year, to the state 

 as a permanent income. 



The policy of reforestation and management of fores 

 lands has been followed out for centuries in Scandinavia, Ger- 

 many and other European countries. It has proven to be a 

 very profitable business. Forests are raised on those lands 

 which are entirely unfit for farming. These lands which 

 would otherwise be of no benefit whatever, are by this method 

 made to produce money. 



Prussia with an area scarcely twice as large as Minnesota 

 and with a population of 60,000,000 people has six million 

 acres of state forests, and these six million acres produce 

 an annual net profit of $12,000,000. Some of these forests pay 

 up to $18.00 per year per acre net revenue. 



The state forest of Zurich, in Switzerland, called the Sihl- 

 wald, has been under forestry management for six hundred 

 years, and the revenue for this forest has been for the past 

 hundred years $7.50 per acre. 



A nation, in order to retain its economic equilibrium, must 

 have a certain area of forests. Our forests are going fast, and 

 it is necessary that we act before it is too late. 



Permanent forests will furnish us with a permanent timber 

 supply, and we must have timber. Our civilization is built on 

 wood; it surrounds us in one form or another from the cradle 

 to the grave, and we cannot live without it. 



Forests regulate stream-flow, give shelter and warmth, pro- 

 tect our crops from the destroying effects of hot, dry winds; 

 modify climate and prevent erosion. They are the home of 

 our game; and they serve as recreation grounds for thousands 

 of people. 



The wooded portion of Minnesota as yet never suffered crop 

 failure. This is due, to a large extent, to the protection given 

 them by our forest shelter belts. Countries deforested suffer 

 from continued crop failure. 



Forests are essential to the welfare of mankind No. 9, the 

 state forests amendment, is the first step toward a policy 



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