creation and health resorts where tired and sick 

 people can come to rest and recuperate, fish, hunt, 

 and camp. The pine forests are very beneficial to 

 consumptive people. Many have been benefitted by 

 the pure air and the tonic balsam of the pine woods. 

 The work of forestry in promoting the care of state 

 parks should be continued. 



Moreover, our trees should be protected for their 

 beauty. Although there are many uses that make 

 them our greatest benefactors we can never appre- 

 ciate their value fully if we forget this. If the trees 

 were of not material value whatever, they would be 

 worth all the care we can give them just for their 

 beauty. Surely every boy and girl in Minnesota 

 should be interested in the planting and protection 

 of our trees and forests. 



"He who plants a tree, 



He plants love; 



Tents of coolness spreading out above 

 Wayfarers, he may not live to see. 



Gifts that grow are best, 



Hands that bless are blest, 



Plant; life does the rest, 



Heaven and earth help him who plants a tree 

 And his work its own reward shall be." 



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