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TABLE 8. Distribution of forest planting stock, by regions, for the calendar 



year 1930 



In States or parts of States where tree growth is largely absent, 

 typified by parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, the Dakotas, and 

 Nebraska, farm planting is mostly in the form of windbreaks and 

 shelter belts. A block of trees set so as to protect farm buildings and 

 stock or cultivated fields and orchards is here of high importance. 

 Federal cooperation has been definitely helpful in establishing such 

 plantations. In 1931 in the States of Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, 

 Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, approximately 3,000 

 farmers established such plantations. Their value to farm homes 

 and as demonstrations is inestimable. The work would probably 

 not have been undertaken in at least five of these States without the 

 impetus of Federal aid. 



In other States, as in Tennessee and Mississippi, the planting of 

 gullied portions of farms is returning otherwise waste areas to prof- 

 itable use. 



DIFFICULTIES ARISING FROM FARM LIMITATION 



Three fourths of the State nurseries are raising stock for reforesta- 

 tion of other land than farm land. Under the law, however, the 

 Federal Government can cooperate with these States only in that 

 part of their work which involves the production and distribution 

 of trees to farmers. The line is difficult to draw, and the distinction 

 seems illogical. The point of view of the State foresters is that the 

 needs of the land rather than the classification of the owner is of 

 first importance, although the large owner who may need no public 

 help would not generally be served until small applicants had been 

 satisfied. An amendment to change the conditions of Federal coop- 

 eration in this respect has several times been presented to Congress. 



CONCLUSIONS 



Federal aid in farm forest planting has been directly responsible 

 for the initiation of such work as a State activity in at least 18 States; 

 this is its greatest achievement. It supplied to each State a small 



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