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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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SIX YEARS AGO THIS WAS A HARUKX BLOW HOI.K 

 Siiicf tllcii ttiL- plaiiliii^' ui black walnuts, lucusts and cotlonwucKl, togetlier with a luMiriant ^;riAvtli nf jirass. has (|uitc transformed its appearaiicf. 



made to grow there by the presence of one huge cot- ing of sand in their immediate \icinity, thereby pro- 



tonvvood tree standing almost in the middle of the tecting growing cro])s on other land nearby. Me then 



tract. This tree also suggested the species which went into the business of tree planting on a huge 



would most likel\' thri\c in tin- sanil. Tie also decided scale, jilanting alxnit TO.iKiO trees altogether on some 



TKK1.> rl-A.\li;U l.\ .SAMJ AT 1;.\1J Ol' A l:!J'.. MLJl.l. 



These trees, cottonwoods, are now seven years oUl aiui act as perfect 



sand binders. The Rrass is befiinning to creep into the sand in front of 

 the trees, 



to try the black locust, since, like the Cottonwood, it 

 has the faculty of storing nitrogen in the soil through 

 the ministration of the bacteria on its roots. 



The first year Mr. Abbott planted .->,()()() yearling 

 trees, and in a little over a year they were three or four 

 feet high, and grass began to creep in between. In 

 another year they had successfully checked the blow- 



TIIIS TREE GAVE THE PLANTER HIS IDEA 

 'rliis large Cottonwood was the only tree on a seventy-acre tract of sandy 

 soil when it came into possession of A, N. Abbott, and it gave the idea of 

 planting other trees in the effort to reclaim the sandy waiites. 



70 acres of land, or at the rate of 1,000 trees per acre, 

 the S])acing being about G by 7 feet. The yearling 

 |)lants were bought at an average price of $5 per 

 thousand, and the cost fjf planting them was relatively 



