reaps net revenue of two dollars and forty-four cents 

 per acre annually from her state parks and forests. 



"We are apt to look on forest land as completely 

 withdrawn from settlement and uninhabited, but these 

 forests support two laborers and their families on 

 every six hundred and forty acres, only two families 

 less per section than we expect to find on our best 

 farm lands. " 



Judging from this, it is safe to say, if it will pay 

 in a country like Norway, it surely would pay in 

 Minnesota, to reserve, and reforest all the lands 

 classified as timber soil. Summing this all together 

 we see that the forests give health, wealth, pleasure 

 and beauty. So we hope every mother's son will help 

 forestry. 



The State Forestry Association gives out valuable 

 bulletins on forestry. Would it not be well to cir- 

 culate these among the schools to educate the boys 

 in that direction? 



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