For example, settlers are felling trees and fighting stumps in northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota.

Some of these virgin lands are valuable for farming purposes, others are not.

It is preferable that they should produce farm crops instead of tree crops if the land is best adapted to agricultural use.

It is an economic necessity that all lands in this country best suited for farming purposes should be tilled.

Our ever-increasing population demands that every acre of land useful for growing crops should be cleared and devoted to farming.