168 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 7. — National Forest nurseries and stock on hand. 



The amount of tree seed collected and purchased is indicated in 

 Table 8. Seed thus secured is used in the nurseries and on direct 

 seeding projects. On account of favorable conditions for collection 

 a larger quantity of seed was collected than in 1915, and at a re- 

 duced cost per pound. 



Table 8. — Tree seed collected and purchased. 



Collected by the Forest Service: 



District 1 



District 2 



District 3 



District 4 



District 5 



District6 



Total 



Native species purchased 



Exotic species purchased 



Grand total 



Conifers. 



Average 

 Clean seed, cost per 

 pound. 



Pounds. 



2,702.75 



2,732.00 



86.50 



436. 00 



117.50 



1, 202. 00 



7,276.75 



384.25 



11.88 



7,672.88 



$1.24 

 1.20 

 1.31 

 1.84 

 1.13 

 1.08 



1.24 



1.70 



.91 



1.26 



Hardwoods. 



Clean 

 seed. 



Pounds. 



2.00 



2.00 



15.00 



.31 



17.31 



Average 

 cost per 

 pound. 



SO. 32 



.32 



.47 



11.68 



.65 



FREE DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTINO STOCK. 



There were distributed to 770 settlers in the Kinkaid district of 

 Nebraska, under the act of March 4, 1911, 84,800 coniferous trees 

 and 46,400 hardwood trees, as against 112,110 trees distributed in 

 1915 to 746 settlers. Each settler upon receiving the stock is 

 requested to report the progress it makes after planting, so that the 

 Forest Service may be able to determine the benefits resulting from 

 the distribution of the stock. Progress reports for the year were 

 submitted by approximately 56 per cent of those who secured stock 

 in 1915. 



