MODERN FORESTRY 



trees has been pronounced. Some of the pines 

 have reached a height of over forty feet, being 

 over a foot in diameter at the ground and from 

 six to eight inches at six feet from the ground, 

 while other trees have had equally satisfactory 

 results. It has been demonstrated that even 

 in a prairie state, far removed from mountain 

 regions, the pines and other trees which we 

 naturally associate with those regions may be 

 raised at such a rate of growth as to make 

 them profitable for lumber; while trees for 

 mere ornament, for windbreak or fuel also 

 make comparatively rapid and wholly satisfac- 

 tory growth. Here, as in the work of the 

 national government in preserving and extend- 

 ing the great standing forests, it is the future 

 that must be looked to. The farmer of the 

 New Earth who today begins the planting of 

 trees upon his Kansas farm, in line with the 

 information he may obtain free of cost from 

 his state experiment station, through bulletins 

 issued from time to time as the work has pro- 

 gressed, may not only live to reap handsomely 

 himself from the tree harvesting, but he may 

 be assured that all the generations following 

 him will stand grateful debtors to him. 



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