son that the present area of farm woodlands is much greater 

 than it will be eventually. For example, woodland comprises 

 31 per cent of the entire farm area of the South, and undoubt- 

 edly much of this land will be put to other uses than timber 

 growing. Nevertheless, the farmers of the United States now 

 own at least 250 billion feet of saw timber and 1% billion 

 cords of cordwood, and this timber should produce a substan- 

 tial part of their incomes. Farmers ought to make the most 

 of their timber, and the public should be interested in this 

 question for the reason that the vast aggregate of farm timber 

 should be available to supplement the other sources of the 

 general supply. 



E last legislature made several important and good 

 X changes in the game laws of Minnesota. The first per- 

 haps in importance is the one regarding the general 

 hunting license. Heretofore, the hunting license law required 

 all residents of the state, hunting big game, to hold a license, 

 but allowed the hunting of small game in their own county 

 without a permit. Under the new law, a hunter must have a 

 license for small game or birds the same as for large game, 

 except in the case of people hunting on their own property. 

 This privilege is extended to lessees as well as owners of 

 land, and to members of their immediate families. This re- 

 vision of the law will go far toward increasing the revenues 

 of the state, and will make the protection of game more as- 

 sured through the department of the state established for 

 that purpose. 



The limits of bag for game birds have for a long time been 

 a reproach to the state. This condition was remedied by a 

 law limiting the daily bag of game birds to ten and the num- 

 ber allowed in possession to thirty. This applies to all game 



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