MODERN FORESTRY 



to clear away all stumps and branches, lessen- 

 ing the danger from fire, and placing the forest 

 so that within an appreciably short time the 

 timber value will be renewed. 



In 1887, the Kansas legislature enacted a 

 law creating the office of forest commissioner, 

 to encourage the planting and growing of for- 

 est trees. Two tracts of land were secured, 

 upon which experimental forest stations were 

 established. The law provides especially for 

 such trees as should be particularly adapted to 

 the plains region of the state ; the trees grown, 

 when ready for transplanting, being issued at 

 the two stations to all residents of the state 

 applying for them. From fifteen hundred to 

 two thousand five hundred applications have 

 been filed yearly since 1 888. Commissioner of 

 Forestry Beaubien says regarding results : 



"Where ten years ago there was but the 

 open expanse of sky and grass, until the eye 

 grew weary of the never-ending monotony, 

 today can be heard the song of the mocking- 

 bird and the thrush as they nest and rear their 

 young in our artificial forests. This has been 

 accomplished without artificial irrigation." 



The state of Pennsylvania now owns and 



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