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The total number of applications to June 30, 1902, is 262, the number 

 of plans prepared 224, the area examined, 107,439.2 acres, and the 

 area to be planted, 0,474.32 acres. Thirty-eight applications await 

 attention. 



The plans represent 29 States and Territories and 172 localities. In 

 addition, personal advice and instruction have been given in these 

 localities to many other planters. It has been the practice of the 

 representatives of the Bureau in this work to attend and address local 

 meetings when such are called in the interest of forestry by the citi- 

 zens of a communit}- where work is being done. At Anthonj', Kans., 

 where such a meeting was held last summer, over 500,000 trees were 

 set out this spring in consequence, in addition to the planting under 

 plans regularly prepared in that locality. 



Planting under this j'ear's i)lans has several jjurposes. Protective 

 shelter belts and farm wood lots have generally been the object in the 

 Middle West. Several commercial plantations are being developed 

 in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska for fence posts and telegraph 

 poles, though none is of great extent. An average example is a plan- 

 tation at Stafford, Ivans., which covers 30 acres and has for its object 

 the i^roduction of fence posts. The Middle West has comi^aratively 

 little nonagricultural land, and except for the production of fence 

 posts, telegraph poles, and railroad ties, forest planting will not as a 

 rule be practiced b}" individual planters on a larger scale than farm 

 wood lots and shelter belts. The Eastern States have a high percent- 

 age of land adai^ted only to forest purposes, a good part of which has 

 been stripped of timber beyond the hope of natural reproduction. 

 Sucli land often lies within reach of good lumber markets. In many 

 places in Ncav England land worth from 82 to 85 per acre can be 

 stocked with White Pine at fair annual profit on tlie investment, reck- 

 oning lumber at present prices and a period of growth of from forty 

 to sixty years, and this has encouraged many land owners to begin 

 planting on their idle lands. 



An increasing amount of forest planting is being done for the pur- 

 pose of protection, and this Bureau is giving practical aid in several 

 cases of this nature. For example, the most extensive planting in 

 New England is being done by the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage 

 Board of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the jJurpDse of pro- 

 tecting from silt the immense reservoir under construction at Clinton, 

 Mass., to supply Boston and surrounding cities with water. Seed 

 beds, in preparation for this planting, were established two years ago. 

 Planting was begun this j^ear under plans prepared by tlie Bureau 

 and carried forward with a force of 48 men under the immediate 

 direction of a forester privately employed. One hundred and seventj"- 

 five acres were planted. It will require three years more to complete 

 the planting at present planned, which will cover 1,500 acres. Seed- 

 lings are already on hand for the planting of this area, which is, 

 however, but half of that Avhich the plantation will eventually occupy. 



In no case has the Bureau furnished seeds or trees or participated 

 in any degree in the expense of planting. Its outlay is limited to the 

 expenses of its agents in making the preliminary examinations and 

 planting plans. , 



STUDIES OF PLANTED WOODLANDS. 



Reliable advice and instruction iu forest jDlanting must be based 

 upon a thorough knowledge of the purposes for which planting is 



