By counties it is even more interesting: 



Acres Acres 



St. Louis 1,541,570 Hennepin 13,752 



Lake 426,095 Blue Earth 12,454 



Cook 333,783 Benton 8,847 



Fillmore 146,047 Pipestone 7,536 



Winona 132,229 Ramsey 7,436 



Houston 106,010 Dodge 7,214 



Olmstead 64,669 Stearns 6,225 



Goodhue 44,490 Rice 5,888 



Wabasha 39,768 Renville 4,406 



Koochiching 34,406 Le Sueur '. . . . 4,096 



Rock 25,395 Chippewa 3,112 



Washington 23,576 Mille Lacs 2,785 



Dakota 19,496 Mower 2,621 



Redwood 19,496 Brown 2,457 



Scott 18,841 Big Stone 2,129 



Vellow Medicine . . . 14,417 Nicollet 2,124 



Cottonwood 14,254 Lac Qui Parle 1,638 



Carleton 13,792 Carver 1,638 



Tell this to a man in any one of these counties and 

 he will probably deny it; prove it to him and he'll 

 get mad. But why should he? AVhy should every one 

 of us be imbued with a mania for declaring his 

 county to be 100 per cent agricultural? This is forest 

 land, not waste land. It is capable of producing a 

 forest crop which fifty or sixty years from now in 

 the light of present forest conditions will be worth 

 more than the farm crops the best of its agricultural 

 neighbors can produce. 



Our timber will be coming from the Pacific Coast 

 then with a freight charge of $12.00 or $15.00 a 

 thousand feet and an f. o. b. price that will warm the 

 producer's innnermost soul. These same producers 

 are gnawing their very shoestrings now trying to 

 compete with producers who enjoy a cheaper freight 

 rate but they will not be then when our local sources 

 of timber have been exhausted and they own the 



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