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Show . Berated TOL. IV., HO. 44. to m. - in tfie Qreat UinkaB Basin. fcrzeIVogress &Devalopneiit o Agriculture ' EOOSEVELT, UTAH, DECEMBEE 15. 1927. FIFTY CENTS PEE YEAE Forestry as a Land Management Problem (By A. G. NORD) At the time the pilgrims landed, the forests of America were unex- anta v lf, rKrrcrra fcd f Stake Keepers Of Bees Elect In Action celled anywhere iu the world. They stretched practically unbroken from the Atlantic ocean half across the continent to about the ninetieth covered a large meridian. They portoin of the Rocky mountains and a broad strip on the Pacific coast. V' In the aggregate these forests com'I FoliS? prised about 850 million acres. ww i lowing settlement this area of forest land has been reduced, through 1 clearings for cultivation and by x x devastation from fire, approximatev Xw or to 470 million acres. ly one-haOnly a remnant of the original for-o- f i--- s the east remain and the faieots Jf of the south have been largely cut over. The remaining virgin forests 'i1 l:H of the United States, of any conv i sequence, are now centered in the Pacific northwest. One third of this area, or approximately 157 million ac.es, is administered by the gov56wCS'Ok. ... . ernment through the National forest Service. The remainder is privately owned, in states ownership, or timber lands of the public domain. The forestry movement began in this country as a protest against ! the loss of natural resources. There y $'., was wide concern that the timber &''' 3.supply was being consumed at an v. accelerating rate, the dangers bedestruction waste through ing the by fire and the failure for provision to keep potentially forest lands still producing timber following the logging operations. The most important piece of Federal Forestry legislation within the past few years is the Act. This act passed by congress in June, 1924, marked a owners in aleach year. Private long forward step in the development of a policy of forestry for the most every state are now taking adnation. This legislation recognizes vantage of the act, largely through the need of private timber growing planting operations to bring othersupplementing public forest owner- wise idle lands into use. Forestry ship. The provisions of this act extension depends on these two allow for nation wide cooperation very fundamental things protecof private owners, states and the tion against waste and provision Federal Government in organized for renewal. There is enough availprotection against fire on all for- able land to make our timber supand avoid curest lands. It encourages private ply cooperating tailment in the present use of limber growing by with the states under federal funds wood, provided it were all intenfor tree planting and nursery work. sively growing timber to replace As a result of this assistance from what is currently cut, but we are the national government, nearly all far from having reached that situstates have in some measures taken ation. there must be further proproadvantage of the act. Not only gross in the direction of forest or protimber and planting by tection been lands acquired have forest forest of states, but better protection from vision for necessary fire is given to forest lands within landsTThls is particularly Inforest-usin- g the of are on the part the states: planting operations for the of being carried on more extensively dustries since the bulk C Forest Supervisor fifl ,! Jq iy', , r ' 'O' A y J' w X 't x h - ' . vA.- , s ' S A wfvi E K ry self-sustaini- ng self-renew- al ,1 . - .. St 'SXAvvv,AvS'l--v , and F. Hillman, B. Terriberry, secretary and treasurer. Spencer Stone of Ogden and N. E. vice-presid-ent Miller of Provo were chosen as S V. V Clark-McNa- ' H. ? t X - Officers of the Utah State Beekeepers association were reelected by unanimous vote at the final session of the annual convention o'a Tuesday at the Hotel, Utah. They are: J. C. Henager, president; D; y ,T i. j. 'v rx Utah Association Told of Large Growth in Industry; Demand Increases. T' v del- egates to the ' annual meeting of the American Honey Producers league, to be held at San Francisco January 25, 26 and 27. The Mountain States Honey Producers association meeting Tuesday afternoon, elected R. T. Rhees of North Ogden as associate director from Utah. He succeeds A. W Anderson of Emery who was madet field representative for this state. An advisory committee was appoint-s- d consisting of Wilford Belliston of Nephi, William J. Stewart of Myton and J. D. Bagley of Spring-rill- e. , . F. L. Swanson of Medina, O., secretary-treasurof the A. I. Root was the principal speak- company, er at the morning session of the state association, telling of the hew uses for which honey is nowt demanded. It is being used forf eandy, toilet soaps, lotions, shaving creams and other articles, whlctt have greatly increased the demand for it, he said. A. W. B- - Kjosness, manager off er est land is in private ownership, the lands from wheih more than 90 per cent of our timber supply comes being privately owned. The fact that the country is using its timber about four times as fast as the Mountain States association, the present rate of growth brings delivered an address at noon oven out the importance of such meas- KSL, which was heard by those Ini attendance at the convention. Hon ures. ey producers from all parts of thei be to the Fire still continues state deattended the convention. forest greatest single agency of of the struction. The seriousness The use of good home-grow- n le is emphasized forest fire problem and gume is the basis off hay on silage the average, by the fact that more than 25 per cent of th for- economical feeding of dairy cows est land of the country is being The cost of the grain portion off burned over annually, an area of the ration will depend largely up more than nine times as great as on the quality of these roughages Re- available. A dairyman who has sevthe Ashley National Forest. eral stacks or a barn full of legumel not virfires peated only destroy and timber promising young hay and a silo full of silage need gin to reduce the soil not worry about the winter feed tend growth, but bill. Every cow should have thesq (Continued on page five) roughage feeds. 1 |