Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-01-20
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL
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FOR Reforestation Explained bv For.
-. estry> Commissioner. .s"'#
TO the Editor: "
On the eighth of November next
the electors of Minnesota will have a
chance to make an x on a senarate
pink ballot opposite the proposed con.
stltutional amendment for an annual
tax OF one-fifteenth of a mill on each
dollar of taxable property equal to
seven cents on each thousand dollars)
LOT reforestation. To adopt the
amendment requires majority of all
votes cast at the election. The elect
or will probably first vote for the
several candidates for state officers
members of the legislature, county
officers and representatives in con.
gress, whose names will be on another
ballot, and he may feel too much in a
hurry to vote for this amendment.
Besides, there is a natural feeling in
every one to vote against an increase
or taxes. So, in spite of all the talk
for reforestation, this amendment is
liable to fail
Sandy Land Used.
II the amendment be adopted, there
will annually be raised about $4,000.
which the forestry board can use in
the purchase at not over SO per acre
OF forestry land and in planting it &C
cordng to forestry principles. Natur-
ally, land at that price will be mostly
sandy and only fit to produce pine
trees. The experience of Germany
shows that pine planted on such land
will ,on an average, yield $4,000 board
feet per acre in eighty years, at which
time the trees will be about twelve
iches in diameter breaest high, and
that the investment will net three per
cent compound interest. The present
generation will get the benefit of most
Of the $4,000 yearly in payment for
labor. Future generations will get
the timber, and the public general
ly will derive benefit in the increase
Of wealth, in increased beauty of
scenery, Improvement of climate, soil,
Water-fow and covert for useful game.
Good roads go with forests. The
European state forests are health
and pleasure resort for the people.
Why the State Should Undertake Re.
forestation.
Since it's first settlement the pop.
ulation OF the United States has in
creased at The average rate of eight
cen per cent every ten years. At the
s;..rc rate that individuals will plant
forests when they have to- wait eight.
ty years for crop. The state must
do it. Of the present cut-over pine
lands in Minnesota only about five
per cent have become we'll restocked
with valuable kinds of timber. it
would take centuries for nature alone
to restore our forests. Nature has
4 letter chance to renew forest in
Prussia than in Minnesota;yet Prussia
HINTS fifty Thousand acres of forest
a1n, s lily. ~ =. .>
The question is sometimes asked
why should the state buy land when
| it now owns land? The land which
the state owns is school and state
institution land, which, according tc
the constitution, must be offered al
public sale the school land at not less
than IS. per acre, and the state insti
tuition land at not less than $3.75 pei
acre, the proceeds to go into perma
nent funds. Besides, the most of the
state land will be utilized for agricul
ture. #
AS a source of a leading industry
the Minnesota forests will be ex
hausted in a dozen years. The state
should begin reforestation.
How will your county vote on thi:
question? Which shall be the banne
county for reforestation? ask tina
public-spirited people in each count!
appoint committee to communicate
/ with an energetic person in each pre-
cinct in the county who will give til,
matter proper attention.
C. C. ANDREWS. 1:
Forestry COMMISSIONS
st. Paul, January IS, 1910.
FARMERS. TAKE NOTICE
an the authorized assnt for e
Marshall County Farmers Mutual =
Il ,urance Co.. for the towns Of AcCr1a