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Show FOREST SERVICE SELECTS FARM LAND Alter careful examination, two tracts of land have been found chiefly chief-ly valuable for agriculture and nave been listed for entry on the Welser rational forest An area of 80 acres has been se lee-ted by Samuel H Thompson of Council, Ida. This tract will be entered en-tered in connection with an original entry by the same claimant. The land (a adapted to the raising of grain and fruit. Another tract on the Welser forest of twenty-nine and one-half acres was listed for O. W. Holser of Indian Valley, Val-ley, Ida. This area will be entered together with n 40-acre tract, making a fnir sized farm where an intensive system of agriculture la practiced. Two other small tracts, one of seventeen sev-enteen and the other for forty acres, are listed for applicants on the Salmon Sal-mon forest These small areas are the only remaining agricultural lands In this vicinity. They aro bordered by other claims previously acquired, or by non-agricultural land. The forest sorvlco is now frequently frequent-ly confronted with the problems as to tbe advisability of declaring very bmal tracts of land chiefly valuable for agriculture. Where these tracts happen to be isolated from all other agricultural land. The crops which may be grown on tho area in question ques-tion are the best guide as to what in the minimum practical farm unit. Where an intensive system of ugiicul-ture ugiicul-ture con be practiced, or numerous kinds of crops raised, a smaller farm unit mu) be practical tbun on an area v, here only dry farm crops under an extensive system of cultivation are possible. |