The Huttig news., 1909-06-19

| certain feeling of resentment when the representative of the true appears on the scene. In the
 ease of the national forests, the rue owners interest requires, not hat users shall be excluded from
 he land, but that such rules and regulations concerning their use shall be made as will insure the fullest use of the land for all time. These regulations are made and enforced only that the people may make the most of the land, in such way that it may not ultimately lose it's value.
 The problems which the Ar kansas national forests presents are different from those of any other state. 1 do not anticipate any great difficulty in dealing with these conditions. The important problems are those connected with the homestead and timber and stone entry. with grazing and with the control of fires and the related question of protecting the cattle from tick. Now, many people will fail to see the connection between forest fires and cattle ticks. But
 it has long been the habit of the Arkansas people to set fire to the dry grass and brush in the forests for the purpose of getting rid of these ticks, and it is hot improba- ble that the effort which the forest service has me d to prevent these fires altogether was to some ex- tent mistake. The burning of the brush does kill many of the ticks. But whether burning the brush is the only way to get rid of the ticks is one of the problems which will have to be solved. | believe these ticks can be got rid of by other means. It may be necessary to use the fires for a time at least If so, it should be done regularly and under proper supervision, so that the whole range can be cleaned up most ef- Actively. This matter is now be- ing studied by the Government, and just as soon as definite plans can be worked up they will be put into effect. Hundreds of thous- ands of acres of tick infested coun- tries In the Southwest have been cleaned tip by the Government n the last few years with the CO., operation of the State authorities. 1t is no new experiment or untried process, but a well defined plan which, by proper changing to meet the varying conditions of each sec tion. should work out successfully.
 It is generally of the u.most importance to stop forest fires.  Many people point to areas which have been burned off in past years as being still we'll timbered and not showing any signs of damage done. The damage IS done the outside injuries are not visible, but the damage is shown in the scared timber of the trees whose injuries have been covered by the kindly hand of nature, but which on cut ting are found to be so badly dam aged as to unfit them for commer- cial use.
 A very careful study of the whole situation is now in progress. The Service has a strong desire to do justice to every man. ard adapt the administration in every point to local conditions. The support of the general policy of the Sc vice in Arkansas appears to be thorough l ly we'll established. but certain points of friction still remain. | These we shall do our very best to remove altogether this summer, and think can safely prophecy that in very few years the people of Arkansas will be as heartily in flavor of National Forests as are the people of other states who have been through the same pro- cess of education and are now fully alive to the benefits to be derived