This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...more of farm land. This is to be found in the Lake States, the North Pacific Coast and the South. Some of these areas are in the frosted regions, in the excessively humid region of the Pacific Northwest, or on sandy, shallow, or peaty soils of the Lake States and the South, and are submarginal lands, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...more of farm land. This is to be found in the Lake States, the North Pacific Coast and the South. Some of these areas are in the frosted regions, in the excessively humid region of the Pacific Northwest, or on sandy, shallow, or peaty soils of the Lake States and the South, and are submarginal lands, agriculturally speaking. The cut-over area is not decreasing at the present time, but is being 18) J.&. Bonsteel, "Land a Plenty." in World's Work. May, 1912. 19) O.E. Baker and H.M. Strong, Arable Land iri the United States. Separate, 771 from the Yearbook of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1918. p. 10. 20) Principles of Economics, p. 156. added to wherever lumbering is going on. It is a mistaken idea to think that all land should "be put into agricultural use and that this use is the highest use. Lands of po-.r soils, sandy, stony, rocky, and steep lands will generally "be put to the "best use when in forests. This means that such lands will produce an income, even though it is a srjall and a long-time income. However, Europeans have utilized the rocky slopes of Corsica "by planting them to chestnuts yielding 2,000 to 3,000 pounds of nuts to the acre; and such land is valued at $150 to $260 an acre.21) Forest land and recreation land are closely associated. With the growth of population the need for recreation land grows, and during the last half century we have witnessed the reversion of New England farms to forests and sunnier resorts. This has caused people to "become alarmed about the "abandoned farms" and yet the new use is the best use to which this land can be put at the present time. The Adirondacks furnish another illustration. V/e are witnessing the development of fur farming, game preserves, state and national parks, hand in hand...
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