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all private owners may be said to receive direct aid in this respect. 

 More or less pressure is being brought to bear upon all three States 

 to extend the protection districts to include regions to the south and 

 also to give more intensive protection to certain areas within the 

 existing districts. 



Planting. Planting and nursery work is maintained in Wisconsin 

 with the State conservation department; in Michigan, with the 

 State college; and in North Dakota, with the State forester. Be- 

 cause of legislative limitations, no such cooperative planting work is 

 conducted in Minnesota. Eventually Minnesota may be led to take 

 advantage of Federal cooperation by the increasing demand of 

 farmers for forest planting stock. The State has recently established 

 a nursery and during 1932 expects to plant a million trees on State- 

 owned lands largely by contributed time of employees within its 

 forestry organization. 



TABLE 6. Annual State aid to private owners in the Lake States, by projects 



During the calendar year 1931 the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, 

 and North Dakota made $13,824 of State funds available for planting 

 work. Of this amount approximately $10,633 benefited private 

 forest land owners in their planting enterprises. This extended 

 expenditure is 3 percent of planting aid extended by all States, but 

 it constitutes only 0.8 percent of the expenditure for all financial 

 aid in forestry within the Lake group. 



From 1926 to 1931 Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Dakota have 

 produced and distributed 18,129,189 trees to private owners, about 

 half going to farmers and half to larger holdings. 



In Michigan two agencies are engaged in forest tree nursery work 

 with a total annual production and distribution of nearly 24 million 

 trees for planting on State and private lands. The conservation 

 department produces stock primarily for planting on State-owned 

 lands and the State college for distribution to the farmers and other 

 private owners. The year 1931 probably represents a peak in the 

 public planting operations. The conservation department produced 

 in that year more than 22 million trees, of which over 21 million 

 were planted on State land. The total production and distribution 

 of planting stock in Michigan was exceeded hi 1931 by only one 

 other State, namely, New York. 



The Michigan State College, cooperating with the Federal Govern- 

 ment under the Clarke-McNary law, distributed in 1931 nearly \% 

 million seedlings and transplants to private owners and produced 

 7,140 trees for planting on State lands. The total distribution of 

 trees to farmers in Michigan increased from 268,376 in 1925 to 1,726,- 

 926 in 1931. In 1931, 158 farm windbreaks were established. 



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