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foster agriculture for its social results, or, in other words, to- 

 assist in bringing about the best kind of life on the farm for 

 the sake of producing the best kind of men." " Farmers must 

 learn the vital need of co-operation with one another." " The 

 farmers in the region affected by the boll-weevil, in the course of 

 the efforts to fight it, have succeeded in developing a most scien- 

 tific husbandry, so that in many places the boll- weevil became a 

 blessing in disguise. Not only did the industry of farming 

 become of very much greater economic value in its direct results, 

 but it became immensely more interesting to thousands of 

 families." "It is only through such combination that American 

 farmers can develop to the full their economic and social power. 

 Combination of this sort has, in Denmark, for instance, resulted 

 in bringing the people back to the land, and has enabled the 

 Danish peasant to compete in extraordinary fashion, not only at 

 home but in foreign countries, with all rivals." 



Again the President speaks out in his opening Address to the 

 American Forest Congress, held at Washington, January, 1905. 

 " All of you know that there is opportunity in any new country 

 for the development of the type of temporary inhabitant whose 

 idea is to skin the country and go somewhere else. You all 

 know, and especially those of you from the West, the individual 

 whose idea of developing the country is to cut every stick of 

 timber off of it, and then leave a barren desert for the home- 

 maker who comes in after him. That man is a curse and not a 

 blessing to the country. The prop of the country must be the 

 business man who intends so to run his business that it will be 

 profitable to his children after him. That is the type of business 

 that it is worth while to develop." " I ask, with all the intensity 

 that I am capable of, that the men of the West will remember 

 the sharp distinction I have just drawn between the man who 

 skins the land and the man who develops the country. / am 

 going to work with, and only with, the man ivho develops the 

 country. I am against the land-skinner every time." And so, 

 gentlemen, I think, say all of us. We are against the forest 

 skinner and against the mau who grazes out the saltbushes. 



