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Resolved, That we recommend that 

 measures for reforestation upon our 

 National forests be begun and pushed 

 rapidly forward. 



Resolved, further, also. That copies 

 of these resolutions be sent to the Rep- 

 resentative in Congress from this dis- 



the 

 the 



wind 



collecting data for the benefit of 

 agriculturists who are developing 

 Western plains. At present 

 breaks are planted haphazard, one kind 

 here, another there. If one kind is bet- 

 ter than another, the government ex- 

 perts think that fact ought to be known, 



WINDBREAK 

 Monterey Cypress Sheltering an Orange Orchard, San Bernardino County, California 



trict, with the request that he support, 

 so far as possible, the recommendations 

 herein made. 



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Government to Study Shelterbelts for Benefit 

 of Farming Interests 



UNCLE SAM'S tree-planting and 

 farm experts have just undertaken 

 a practical and scientific study of the 

 use and efifect of timber windbreaks 

 and shelterbelts in the agricultural re- 

 gions of fourteen W^estern states. This 

 is the first time in this country that a 

 study of this much-discussed question 

 has been undertaken over a wide re- 

 gion under one plan, for the purpose of 



and it is believed that the study about 

 to be undertaken will settle the ques- 

 tion once for all. It will at least col- 

 lect such facts never before brought 

 together. 



The work will be done by the United 

 States Forest Service. In some states 

 the agricultural experiment stations 

 will cooperate in the studies, and in 

 these cases the Forest Service will pro- 

 vide the necessary apparatus, and the 

 other expenses will be shared half and 

 half by the Government and experi- 

 ment stations. The investigations will 

 be taken up in five states this year and 

 extended to the other nine as rapidly as 

 the investigations are completed. Four 

 of the states in which the studv will be 



