. Conservation. Forests and forestry. End of a Log Slide a blow at the development of the dis- trict. This should be recognized, and extreme statements and radical meas- ures avoided by forestry advocates. But final judgment cannot be formed without considering the other side as represented by the land speculator. In many districts the test of experience has shown the difficulty of profitable farming, and the original settlers have abandoned the attempt. Land specu- lators find in these lands a fruitful source of profit, and induce inexperi- enced or over-confident investors to buy them for ho


. Conservation. Forests and forestry. End of a Log Slide a blow at the development of the dis- trict. This should be recognized, and extreme statements and radical meas- ures avoided by forestry advocates. But final judgment cannot be formed without considering the other side as represented by the land speculator. In many districts the test of experience has shown the difficulty of profitable farming, and the original settlers have abandoned the attempt. Land specu- lators find in these lands a fruitful source of profit, and induce inexperi- enced or over-confident investors to buy them for homes. There seems to be but one way to meet this situation honestly, and that is by acquiring such lands for state forest reserves. We need these lands for growing timber. In such thickly set- tled countries as Prussia sandy lands are being purchased every year by the Government and planted to pine. We must learn in this country to put land to its best use, and be willing to admit that in some cases this best use is forest production. The ability to distinguish bet\veen agricultural and forest soils. and the power to open the first class to settlers and prevent the improper use of the true forest soils for agriculture can only be developed in a state under a progressive policy of state forest re- serves. There are thus strong reasons for state ownership of forest lands in all instances in addition to the need of producing timber. Should the argu- ment be based solely on the necessity for the state to grow timber, it might be held that a state must not compete with individuals in the production of crops. This is true where individuals can supply the demand for the product and where state competition would in any way hamper private effort. But in the production of timber, experience in this country as well as abroad is rapid- ly proving that the individual or cor- poration is seldom willing to invest the money or make the sacrifices necessary to secure a second crop of timber, whi


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