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c . .minercially speaking' that has ever < m several relatr. 



been made. Among the questions small, sections of th 



covered will he: I K->truction of the experiment- have already been i: 



forests ; the necessity for stopping this with one or mure i the Siberian 



proceeding, the extent of reforesta- vetches; but thes* ents h; 



tion work in progress, the means nee- not been particularly Mi' 



essary for the encouragement of re- whole, althi.ugh a 



f orestation ; in addition to which the has been attained in securing pr 



report will cover such grounds as the able stands of vetch. It is well known 



purely commercial aspect of the mat- that the steppes of Siberia p- 



ter, operations of the lumbering busi- other legumes that are extreme!}- \ 



ness, relations of railroad rates to him- uable for f. .rage; and it is al>u well 



bering, and of water transportation to known that these forage crops bear 



railroad rates; the making and main- the long, hard winters of Siberia with 



tainance of prices, average and actual no apparent ill effects. The question 



cost of lumber production, and profits of over gra/.ing i> one that has not. 



of the business. as yet, affected Siberia to any appreci- 



It wll be seen from the above that able degree; and just how well the-e 



the probe is to be thrust deeply into high-latitude forage legume- will 



the lumbering industry, and the re- stand transplanting and American 



suiting report is certain to be of very grazing methods is problematical, 



great interest and value to everyone However, it is certain that the native 



concerned, whether he be engaged in grasses have been so closely gra/ed 



lumbering, or merely interested from practically to the point of extennina- 



the standpoint of one who is affected tion that some forage crop will have 



by the increasingly grave conditions to be sown, if grazing is to continue 



that are touching more and more close- as a profitable business. With an ap- 



ly all Americans and every branch of propriation even as limited a- the one 



American industry. recommended by the Senate Com- 



mttee on Agriculture, a start can be 



Government Among the recommen- made toward replacing grasses 



to Try Siber- dations of the Senate are gone with a vigorous forage that 



ian Legumes Committee on Agricul- may be adaptable to the conditi 



ture, in reporting the Agricultural Ap- that exist over the northern p<.rt : 



propriation Bill, was one to the effect of the range Star 

 that $10,000 be appropriated for the 



purpose of importing hardy forage Startling "Ridicule of all 

 plants from Siberia, such plants to be Words of been heaped u] -it- 

 tried on the northern portions of the Timber f or ,| pin^h^t f, ,r h 

 great plains areas. This is in addition pressed opinions 

 to a recommended appropriation of to the quantity of merchantable tim- 

 the same amount, to be used in co- her remaining in the I'nited States 

 operation between the Deaprtment of and persons and publications having 

 Agriculture and the Reclamation Ser- absolutely no know! Ig -ail 

 vice in demonstrating the possibilty of facts and condii' 

 crop production on lands under' the funny at th< "f the 

 latter service. In its report the Com- and his public 

 mitteesaid: the imminence r>f a universally di- 



"The great need in all these regions astrous timber famine, 



(the northern plains areas) is for le- esting t W that men fully 



guminous crops which will serve not quainted with th< share 



merely to maintain normal husbandry. Pinclvu's views on this question, and 



but to build up the soil, which other- that some of them are willing to ri< 



wise will be utterly depleted by the their professional reputations by 



single-crop system now in vogue.'" ing further than Mr. Pinchot felt safe 



