222 AGRiri'TTI-HAT. APPROPRIATION BlIJ., VJ2i. 



Colonel Greeley. Al)out iS.UOU.OOO. You see, we plant from 800 

 to 1,200 soofllincjs per acre, and we have to allow some surplus for 

 possible losses. I should say. Mr. Chahnian. that small amounts of 

 seedlings from one of the nurseries in Nebraska are distributed to 

 settlers under special lej^islation. but the great bulk of them are used 

 on Government lands. 



Mr. Bit HASAN. You say you set out 9,000 acres? 



Colonel Gkkeley. Yes, sir. 



Mr. BucnANA.N. And it costs you about 818 an acre to set them 

 out i 



Col(»nel Greeley. Well, it would be 9,000 into $125,000. 



Mr. Buchanan. Not quite SI 8. 



Cidnncl Greeley. It would be about S14. 



Mr. Blcilvnan. Yes; that is about rij'ht. 



Colonel Greeley. That includes all tne overhead costs, of course, 

 and some experimental work that is done with this fund where the 

 best methods have not yet been worked out. We are dcnng some 

 planting. Mr. Bucluman. for -So an acre in the sandy lands of Michi- 

 gan. In the Minnesota National Forest we have planted about 6.000 

 acres with white and Norway pine, at an average cost of SIO an acre. 



Mr. Blchanax. If it should cost more than that. I think it would 

 be justified, and 1 am more impressed with this item than I was with 

 the previous item. 



Colonel Greeley. We have planted to date about 100.000 acres 

 in the national forests successfully. This appropriation enables us 

 to drive away at the most urgent points but without making very 

 rapid progress on the big area that ultimately we must expect to 

 reforest by this means. Some day I e.xpect to come before this 

 connnittce with a planting budget and ask for approval by Congress 

 of a program under which these denuded lands in the national forests 

 can he planted within 20 or 25 years. For the present we are pro- 

 posing simply to continue the work on a limited scale. 



Mr. A.\i)ER.s(^\. Are the States doing any planting? 



Colonel Greeley. Yes, sir; a number of the States have gone 

 into planting (|uite extensivelv. Pennsylvania, New York, and 

 Michigan are doing a good deal of planting on their wState forests. 

 Several of the States, particularly Massachusetts, and also New 

 York and Peimsylvania, are furnishing planting stock at cost to 

 land owners within their States, who will agree to plant their lands 

 and take good care of the plantations. wSeveral of tlie prairie States, 

 like Iowa, Nebraska, and Illinois, are doing a gootl deal of work in 

 experimental plantations, working out the species and methods 

 adiiptc<| to their soil and climatic conditions. All told the amount 

 of planting done with State aid or under State auspices probably 

 amounts to 20.000, ()()() or 25,0()(),0()() trees a year and is increasing 

 pretty steadils 



.Mr. .\\i)ERsn.\. l^aiiN phui I iug being done by |)rivate cut-over land 

 owiier> < 



Colonel (iuEELEV. To som(> extent and to an increasing extent 

 from year to year. There are several paper manufacturers in the 

 N<»rlheast who hav«« started the policy of planting their cut-over 

 lantls, and one of them maintains its own nurseries. 1 imagine that 

 several thousand acres are |)lanted every year by private companies 

 m iiurlherii Maine. .New Hampshire. N'ermont. and Xew York. La^^t 



