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results: The average of all the reports received show that 76 per 

 cent of the trees are growing. The best report gives 97 per cent of 

 the trees growing, the poorest 35 per cent. The writer of this report 

 states that the trees were planted on low ground near the river and 

 that the trees drowned out. The trees were planted under various con- 

 ditions according to the tastes of the planter. The greater number 

 were planted in the grass sod, the ground not being prepared in any^ 

 way, and the remainder were planted in plowed ground. Seventy- 

 five per cent of those planted in the sod are growing, and 71 per cent 

 of those planted in the plowed ground are living. The soil around 

 Thedford is as light and sandy as can be found anywhere in the sand 

 hill region. As a result of success of this year's planting there is a 

 lot of enthusiastic tree planters around Thedford and the indications 

 are a large number of trees will be planted in that vicinity next 

 season. 



Pine trees do not make rapid growth tjie first and second year 

 after they are set out in the hills, but after that their growth is quite 

 surprising. On an area of five square rods that was staked off for a 

 sample plot, planted to Jack Pine in 1903, there are thirty-four trees 

 the average height of which is eleven inches, the average height 

 growth of these trees for this year is 6.56 inches or 59^^ per cent 

 of their entire height. This is but the beginning of their growth and 

 it will not surprise me if they average one foot in height growth la 

 another year. 



Our experience with nursery grown Western Yellow Pine up to 

 the present time has been very encouraging, but we are not yet 

 recommending it for general planting because of the indifferent success 

 so many have met with in transplanting it. Last year we planted about 

 350,000 one year old trees of this species in furrows in the hills. 

 Between 80 and 90 per cent lived through the planting and we were 

 much elated over our work. The seedlings used in this planting were 

 not over four inches in height, in the fall when the grass dried up 

 and the sand began to fill up the furrows a great many of the little 

 trees were buried, and those surviving are not making the growth 

 they should, but it is very probable that they will make a good growth 

 next year. 



This year we planted 275,000 Western Yellow Pine trees, part 

 were planted in furrows and part in the grass sod without preparing 



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the ground in any way. At the present time 85 per cent of tho33 

 planted in the furrows and 89 per cent of those planted in the sod are 

 growing. Some of the stock of this year's planting is two years old, 

 but it is growing exceptionally well and if future planting does as well 



