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FIRST BOOK OF FORESTRY 



The majority of failures in these plantations appear to 

 be due to the fact that the plants dry out at the roots 

 before they are established, probably in most cases before 



FIG. 69. Black Locust Plantation, Meade County, Kansas 



Trees twelve years old, six to eight inches diameter and twenty feet high 

 (After Tourney) 



and during planting. Generally the plants are raised at 

 distant nurseries and thus, necessarily, suffer during the 

 long journey to the place where they are to be used. 



