Trees, fruits, and flowers of Minnesota . uipped to plant treeson non-agricultural land, but the legislature has given us no moneyfor that purpose. Let us suppose you are members of the finance committee, orthe committee on appropriations in the legislature. You are friendly NOTES ON FORESTRY WORK IN MINNESOTA. 289 to forestry, but here comes the governor and prominent poHticiansand say they must certainly have $100,000 for the St. Louis Exposi-tion ; they must have a lot of money for the state university; build some more buildings at the state experiment station; theyhave four insan
Trees, fruits, and flowers of Minnesota . uipped to plant treeson non-agricultural land, but the legislature has given us no moneyfor that purpose. Let us suppose you are members of the finance committee, orthe committee on appropriations in the legislature. You are friendly NOTES ON FORESTRY WORK IN MINNESOTA. 289 to forestry, but here comes the governor and prominent poHticiansand say they must certainly have $100,000 for the St. Louis Exposi-tion ; they must have a lot of money for the state university; build some more buildings at the state experiment station; theyhave four insane hospitals and many other public institutions whichmust be supported. Members from all parts of the state are clamor-ing for money, and they will have it; and while they are friendlyto forestry, unless you have a man who makes forestry a specialtyand fights for it with energy, we shall not get money for forestry. Now I trust that when you go home and in due time come to electsenators and representatives you will say to the candidate, My. Non-agricultural land near Ely, Minn., from which white pine forest has been cut. friend, promise me one thing—that you will give earnest supportto forestry measures. What forestry means for Minnesota is simply this: The remain-ing original pine timber will be cut in the next fifteen years. Somesecond growth pine, if protected from fire, will then be cut from yearto year, but it will not be as good as the original growth, and therewill not be enough of it for home consumption. Lumber will bedearer, and our great lumber industry will decline. There are, how-ever, fully three million acres of waste land in scattered localitieswhich if planted with pine would in time become normal forestsyielding forever a supply sufficient for our home need. Such forestswould by their growth perpetually yield a net annual revenue on 290 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. the capital invested-of three per cent compound interest, besidesmany indirect benefit
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