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Show Much Forest Land Is Now in Farm Ownership Syracuse, N. Y. More and more, the remaining and new-growing timber lands in the United States are becoming identified with individual indi-vidual farms, it was pointed out at the meeting of the Society of American Amer-ican Foresters here by Parker Anderson, An-derson, Minnesota extension forester. "Census reports indicate that ' woodland acreages on farms have j increased during the past decade." he said. "Today one-third of all ; forest land in the United States is in farm ownership. Such forest ! areas are no doubt on better soils than most of our public forests, as farms usually were established in j areas where soils are more pro- i ductive for food crops. These wood- j land areas, therefore, should be i able to yield a higher forest prod- j uct return than most public land not so fortunately situated." i Mr. Anderson emphasized the ill ' effects of forestry's twin evils in j past and present practice, private exploitation without thought for the j future, and public tax policies that ' result in reversion to the state of tax-delinquent land and discourage reconstruction of forests. |