munity and decided to do something for his patrons. 

 He offered to take orders from them for evergreen 

 trees and then order them through the bank, to get the 

 advantage of purchasing in quantity. The result was 

 an aggregate order for over ten thousand trees. The 

 bank is going to go still further and secure for its pa- 

 trons a talk on how to plant trees and will conduct a 

 demonstration on the local school grounds. 



If all of the banks would do this for their farmer 

 patrons it would do much to increase the farm values 

 in their communities. 



THE FARM TREE PLANTERS CLUB 



SO far there has never been any money available in 

 the funds of the Extension Division of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture for prairie planting or wood-lot 

 projects. This spring the Division of Forestry started 

 a little extension venture of its own and organized a 

 Farm Tree Planting Club among the school children of 

 the six prairie counties of Yellow Medicine, Lac Qui 

 Parle, Chippewa, Big Stone, Swift and Stevens. One 

 hundred little trees were offered to each of five pupils 

 in each school in those counties and an ounce of ever- 

 green seed to any one pupil in each school, at a nominel 

 cost to cover digging, packing and mailing. Each ap- 

 plicant agreed to keep a diary of the work done in 

 planting and caring for his stock, and to make a report 

 in the fall on the results. 



The results are most encouraging. One hundred 

 and eighteen applicants were received, which is pretty 



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