FORESTRY PLANTATIONS IN MICHIGAN. 53 



Mr. J. O. Beal of Rollin township, Quaker P. O., Lenawee county, has 

 a small cultivated plantation and has improved the natural growth by 

 filling in the open places with good species. 



At the Agricultural College, as early as 1875, Dr. Beal began planting 

 an arboretum on the campus. It was less than an acre in area, but a 

 large number of species was used so that we are able to see now what 

 trees of those i)lanted are likely to succeed in such soils and situa- 

 tions. There are now about 1.200 living trees in this plantation and 

 the largest are eight to twelve inches in diameter, breast high. Chestnut, 

 locust, European larch, white pine, white oak and basswood are among 

 the best in this plantation. 



In 1896 2.2 acres on the east end of the college farm were planted, 

 by Dr. Beal, to white pine eight by ten feet apart. Although a part 

 of the soil had been used for a gravel bank, the trees have grown vigor- 

 ously, running up two to three feet some seasons. The same year a few 

 pines and locust were planted in the open places in the woods, which 

 have made a very satisfactory growth. In the spring of 1902 another 

 small planfatiou near the pines was made. In this *several species were 

 used. 



The Forestry Department began in the fall of 1902 and in the spring 

 of 1003, 7,000 trees were planted in pasture land and cut-over 

 areas on the college farm. About 3,000 locust and 8,000 catalpa were 

 grown for planting this spring and many thousand conifers were started 

 in the seed beds in the forest nursery. 

 E. E. BoGUE, M. S., A. M., Professor of Forestry, 

 Michigan Agricultural College. 



