A state nursery to grow forest stock pine, spruce, larch, 

 elm, cottonwood and kindred seedlings, to be used by 

 farmers in bringing up woodlots and starting small plan- 

 tations, has been suggested to members of the Minnesota 

 forestry board. The fruit grower can go to nurseries and buy 

 young fruit trees and berry bushes but there is no place where 

 the trees found in the big woods and which are almost in- 

 valuable for shelter belts and woodlots can be purchased in 

 quantity. 



What a Wind-break or Shelter Belt Means to the Average 

 Field. 



Not many persons realize the value of a wind-break of trees 

 about a field. Not many know that such a wind-break as may 

 be grown within a very few years, will reduce evaporation to 

 a very appreciable extent and Will prevent, in a measure, the 

 spread of noxious weeds. Not many know what a woodlot is 

 worth in dollars and cents to the man on the farm who has 

 to buy fuel for the winter and who periodically needs fence 

 posts and poles. Not many know the extent to which birds, 

 attracted by trees in shelter belts and woodlots, keep down 

 the injurious insects that feed on crops. 



Since 1888, Minnesota has been paying a bounty for the 

 encouragement of tree planting. Twenty thousand dollars 

 has been appropriated annually to be disbursed at the rate of 

 $2.50 an acre for six years to those who planted trees on the 

 prairies. Since the enactment of the first bill, a total of 

 $600,000 has been thus expended. 



Nursery to Grow Forest Trees From Seedlings is Suggested. 



It is now proposed, in order to further induce farmers to 

 start woodlots and shelter belts, to supply them seedlings at 

 practically cost. The suggestion made to the forestry board 



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