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added, the "farm wood lot," to amply supply domestic needs and 

 local demands for cord wood, posts, poles, cross-ties, and some 

 dimension stuff, and so managed as to satisfy the principle of 

 continuity of growth and continuity of use. In such a coloniza- 

 tion plan, selfish speculative schemes should have no part, and 

 if faithfully carried out would ultimately occupy and utilize all 

 the land economically. It would settle the region with com- 

 munities of small white farmers, owning and operating intelli- 

 gently, scientifically and intensively their own farms, building 

 good roads, schools and churches ; producing wealth for home 

 and state, through a sane and profitable system of diversified 

 agriculture, of crops and animals — making "two blades of grass 

 to grow where none grew before." 



