Plantations of red oak need very little care, except where the rain- 

 fall is so deficient that the soil must be cultivated to conserve the 

 moisture. All that is ordinarily necessary is to see that the little 

 trees are not smothered by grass and weeds, that stock and fire are 

 kept out, and that the plantation acquires the character of a forest 

 as soon as it can. Weeds and litter on the ground and shrubs that 

 stand below the crowns of the trees are good and should not be inter- 

 fered with. 



Approved. 



JAMES WILSON, 



Secretary. 

 WASHINGTON, D. C., November &, 1906. 



[Cir. 58] 



