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You can take into consideration the larger area of cultivated 

 ground in Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas, the larger agricultural 

 pojiulation, and estimate for yourselves what has been done in 

 these states. 



x\s an example of what has been done, I can cite the states of 

 Kansas and Nebraska. I have been unable to procure statistics 

 from the state of Missouri, although information may be imbedded 

 in the official reports, which I have not had access to. In Nebraska 

 it is estimated that there are growing 53,000,000 forest trees planted 

 by the hand of man. I suppose it is safe to estimate the same 

 number to the acre as is required under the timber culture act — 

 that is 675. This would give a little over 78,000 acres in forest 

 trees in that state. 



In Kansas the statistics given by the report of the secretary of 

 the State Board of Agriculture shows 119,682 acres. If we make 

 the same calculations in artificial forest trees as to the number 

 planted to the acre as we have in Nebraska, it would show the 

 number of trees in artificial forests in the state to be 70,486,350. 



It has generally been conceded that Nebraska was far ahead of 

 Kansas in the number of forest trees planted ; but if I'm right in 

 the above calculations, and I do not see but that I am, Kansas ex- 

 ceeds Nebraska in the number of trees planted out by 17,486,350, 

 and in acres, 41,682. 



It must be remembered that the above estimate does not in 

 either state include the number of acres of trees of volunteer 

 gi'owth. That this is very large every observer knows, and that it 

 is equal to at least fifty per cent, of the number of artificial 

 growth is quite evident. 



We have not an estimate of the number of fruit trees in 

 Nebraska, but the authority I have given above states that of all 

 the varieties of fruit trees in Kansas there are 20,851,276. Reducing 

 this to acres, at 40 trees to the acre, which is believed to be a fair 

 average, makes 52,128, or a total of acreage in forest and fruit 

 trees, almost all set out during the past fifteen years, of 171,810. 



Besides this, there are 6,228 acres in small fruits, and 3,865 

 acres in vineyards. 



The constant discussion of the subject of forestry, the im- 

 mense accumulation of experience, the demonstration of what man 

 has done, gives hope of what man may do. 



The only thing to be done now is to get away from experiment 

 and go into the business of forestry on what Americans call a big 

 scale. We must accustom ourselves to speak of a hundred or a 



