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"I{any millions of acres rrore are being wcll managed by private owners for timber production but have not yet been certified as Tree Farms. In 1956 approximately 740,000 acres were planted to trees by private o\ ''ners, without the liberal subsidies provided by the Soil Bank. This acreage has bcen increasing yearly under private initiative ancl financing."

In connection r'r'itl-r the Soil l3ank goal to redttce farm surpluses, Ilodine said there is sotne qucstion about whether further moves in this ciirection :rre wise at a timc of growing world tension. He aclcled:

"Durir.rg the past year fart'n surpluscs have bceu whitticd down appreciably. At the same time, worlcl conclitions are rnore strained now than they l"rave been for an extendecl period, indicating the rvisdom of retaining aclequate reserves for use by our people should an emergency arise."

To underscore this point, Bodine quoted from a recent speech in lvhich Interior Secretary Seaton warned that "unless our current rate of farm production is increased, lve may well become a 'have not' nation, agriculturally speaking, sometime between 1970 and 1980."

Further, Boclir.re stated: "The recently complcted Timber Resource Revierv, a report of the Department of Agriculture, shows that nationwide we are growing one-third n-iore timber than rve are usir-rg. Certainly, the diversion of farm land to tin-rber lar.rcl cannot be justifrecl on any present or foreseeable future need for t'nore forest land."