56 Nebraska State Horticultural Society. 



FOURTH SESSION. 



WEDNESDAY, JULY 20TH, 9:30 A. M. 



THE PRESIDENT: We will now have Mr. Scott's paper, oa 

 Ttre Work of the United States Forest Service in Nebraska, which was 

 to have been given yesterday. 



WORK OF THE FOREST SERVICE IN NEBRASKA. 

 By Chas. A. Scott. 



The work of the Federal Forest Service in Nebraska in previous 

 years has been thoroughly discussed in former meetings of this Society 

 and I will confine my remarks today entirely to the work of the past 

 two years. As my work has been almost wholly in connection'' with the 

 Federal reserves within the state I will first speak of what has been 

 done there. These reserves as most of you know are situated in the 

 sand hill region of the state, and they are practically treeless. Our 

 purpose is to plant the area within their bounds, approximately 

 225,000 acres, to trees that will in time supply the local demand for 

 timber. Up to the present time we have planted about one million, 

 -trees on one thousand acres of land. 



On beginning this work many new problems confronted us. It 

 was the first such undertaking the government had attempted. The 

 question of what species to try arose, this was discussed and threshed 

 over by men of authority on trees, and the list simmered down to 

 two trees that were likely to succeed, the Jack Pine (Pinus divaracata) 

 and the Western Yellow Pine (Pinus ponderosa). Up to the present 

 time both are proving to be valuable. In addition to these two we ar3 

 giving the Red Fir (Pseudotsuga taxifolia) a good trial and it is 

 promising well. We are now almost convinced that the Red Pine 

 (Pinus resinosa) will do well in the sand hills, and it will be given, 

 a trial as soon as seed can be secured. 



Another question that arose was, how can we get satisfactory 

 stock for planting? The advisability of using wild seedlings in prefer- 

 ence to nursery grown stock was thoroughly discussed. It was decided 

 that nursery grown stock would undoubtedly be more successful, h\x( 

 the species wanted were not on the market in such quantities as w© 



