EVEUGREENS. 61 



Years ago, the Brun(?r Brothers, under direction of Dr. 

 Feruow, then U. S. Chief of Forestry, planted several 

 thousand in the sandhills of Avestern Nebraska. They could 

 not plow the land on account of the drifting of the sand, so 

 they were put in and left to themselves, without cultivation 

 or irrigation. Under those unfavorable conditions, they are 

 now making two feet a year and scattering seeds so that 

 young plants are coming up all around them. Nearly one- 

 fourth of our great state is a desolation — a succession of 

 sand banks now worth |1 per acre, but a sand bank is a 

 cordial invitation to a pine tree. These almost worthless 

 lands planted to Jack Pines, which would cost, delivered, 

 about |10 per thousand, would, in a short time have a present 

 and prospective value of -flOO or more per acre. Land is 

 rising in value, and the wonder is that such an opportunity 

 is so long neglected. The trouble with us as a people is, we 

 never can wait to grow a crop of acorns. We won't do any- 

 thing for the future. We must have immediate results. A man 

 should realize that there is a future, ind he is related to it. 

 He can plant a forest which will cont'^nue his usefulness as 

 a benefactor long after he is dead. He can create conditions 

 which will surround his memory with a halo. You plant forty 

 acres of pines. Y'ou see them growing while you live. Your 

 name and history are in them. You pass away and thousands 

 see the work of your hands, and as they walk through those 

 long aisles, overarched with green, they will bless your 

 memorv. Tf vou are not immortal then live and die like a dog. 

 If vou believe vou are to live forever, leave something behind 

 you to let people know you passed this way and left blessings 

 in your path. 



The United States Government is planting nearly half a 

 million acres of Nebraska sandhills, and our great state looks 

 on and does nothing. It is a burning shame that neither 

 governor nor legislature take this matter in hand. AVe are 

 a parkless state. While our neighbors are launching out with 

 improvements along this line, we are content to drift, when 



