18 Agriculture and Its Needs 



it are not hard to find. Those reasons are, 

 however, beginning to disappear. The 

 return drift is setting in and seems likely 

 to be strong in the next generation. 



State Sentiment 



/ The thinking of the State has hardly been 

 balanced in the last decade. We have been 

 having more solicitude about forest lands 

 than farm lands, about forest trees than 

 shade trees or fruit trees, about wild ani- 

 mals than tame ones, and about trotting 

 horses than work horses. Last fall we had 

 serious forest fires, which stirred our con- 

 cern and aroused our interest. We seemed 

 to be well provided with men, machinery, 

 and implements for fighting them. We 

 have developed a fine sentiment about our 

 forest preserve. We have created an effi- 

 cient State Department to look after it. 

 We have even got something about it in 

 the Constitution. It is admirable, and we 



