President of the Louisiana State Forestry Association, 

 several delegates to the Congress accepted his invita- 

 tion to go to Urania to look over his 70,000 acre 

 pine tract. Mr. Ilardtner started experiments here 

 some fifteen years ago to find out for himself the 

 answer to some of the problems of forestry. In this 

 work the IT. S. Forest Service and officials of the 

 Louisiana Forestry Department came to take a part. 

 Tin- results of the work give convincing proof of the 

 great possibilities in forestry work and how very 

 many of the difficulties may be overcome. 



The Farm Tree Planters Club 



Last spring the Division of Forestry, of the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, formed a Farm Tree Planters' 

 Club among the public school children in six of the 

 prairie counties in the southwestern portion of the 

 state. One hundred twenty-four children applied for 

 membership and were furnished one hundred ever- 

 green transplants each from the Forest Experiment Sta- 

 tion nursery at Cloquet. They paid fifty cents a 

 hundred for the trees to cover the cost of lifting, 

 1 lacking and transportation. 



It was part of the agreement that each member 

 should make a report in the fall describing where the 

 trees were planted, how they were cultivated and 

 what degree of success was attained. Approximately 

 half of the members returned the report blanks prop- 

 t-rly filled out. The results were very encouraging. 



Of the fifty-five hundred trees on which reports 

 were received over sixty per cent were alive and 

 thrifty in October. Most of them were well culti- 



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