The Coconino sun., 1916-01-21

trim up our focks to superior standard by marketing all undesirable elements. It is time to set aside for our children that certain sum which we have always wished we had for their proper education and advan- tage. It is the time to give to the good housewife, whose shoulder has been next to ours against the wheel for To, these many years, these mod ern advantages and improvements about her home which will make the burden of her remaining years light CT and her every hour happier.
 Thus, let us convert our paper pro fits at the present time, wherever con sistent, into real profits, which in the long run usually prove more lasting and will add greater quota of hap piness to ourselves and all dependent upon us.
 The wool industry is under lasting obligations to the department of az riculture by reason of the experiments which the department has been car rying on in connection with the breeding and feeding of lambs. The results of these experiments when lo- cally and individually applied through out the wool-growingg area will in time prove of inestimable value to the industry. Many individuals, not hay ing the means or the facilities or in- clination for making such experi- ments, are given the benefit thereof for future guidance. The department promises to make still further investi- gations along these lines, as well as to the development of an all-purpose American sheep, and am sure that this association wishes it godspeed and stands ready to cooperate and assist in any possible manner.
 The administration of the forest re- serves grows better from year to year. We still feel that there is room for closer cooperation between the forest service and the woolgrower. One in- stance that comes within my view is that the forest service and woolgrow- CTS should unite in preparing a bill and urging it's adoption in congress, which will provide for large trails across the public domain leading to and from the different forests to the various spring, fall and winter ranges. Unfayorable Legislation.
 Class legislation and court decisions have reached point in some of the states, notably in Idaho, that the life of the industry itself is at stake, and some action must be taken by legis- lation or otherwise which will provide for a safe and reasonable administra- ton of our great industry in its every day practical requirements.
 Today, in my judgment, there are more advocates of the leasing of pub lie lands than there are opponents, and within few years anticipate the development of universal senti- ment in favor of such legislation on the part of congress. However, in view of the present trend of mind of the law-making body at Washington and in the event that their present convictions are effected into a law, we can well feel alarmed as to the future of any land-leasing legislation. If the present plans of congress are carried out, when the western American stock growers and citizens in general awak- en to the fact that the leasing of public grazing areas is necessity it will have been to late. We will
 lock the barn after the horse is stolen.
 Should Classify Lands.
 l do not want to be understood as claiming that all lands included in the public domain should be leased. be- lieve, on the contrary, that the pri- mary duty of congress is to first prop erly classify all the remaining public domain. Having done this, l believe