is a long enough trial to give any failure. It is time 

 to take a new slant at the problem, to try a new 

 solution, and the experience of older countries points 

 the way. 



Minnesota has 35 per cent of her area in improved 

 farm lands; nearly all of the remaining 65 per cent 

 are idle and non-productive. Germany has only 70 

 per cent of her area in improved farm lands, and 

 yet practicall none of her lands are idle or non- 

 productive. What is the answer? 



It is plain enough. There are other crops, as yet 

 unfamiliar to the Minnesota farmer, which can change 

 those idle acres to active producers, which have al- 

 ready turned the trick in all the older civilized coun- 

 tries and can do it here. They bring in a net annual 

 revenue of $80,000,000 in Germany; they could pay 

 $40,000,000 on our own. now idle lands. 



It has never occurred to the Minnesota farmer that 

 there might be a profit in trees. There was not very 

 often in the years gone by. But things have 

 changed now. Minnesota no longer has a surplus of 

 timber. In fact she is now importing about 50 per 

 cent of all the lumber she uses. The freight alone on 

 all that imported lumber costs from $8.00 to $15.00 

 per thousand feet. That freight charge in addition to 

 any profit the foreign lumberman may make is velvet 

 to the producer in this state. Why not go after that 

 profit ? 



And remember this : when Minnesota buys lumber 

 from another state she gets the lumber, but the other 

 state gets the money and the railroads get the 



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