CIRCULAR 22 (Fourth Revision). 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



FOREST SERVICE. 



PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE TO TREE PLANTERS. 



THE OFFER AND ITS OBJECT. 



The Department of Agriculture through the Forest Service gives prac- 

 tical assistance to landowners in establishing commercial forest plan- 

 tations, shelterbelts, windbreaks, and snowbreaks, and in reclaiming 

 shifting sands and other waste lands by forest planting. In connection 

 with this work, information will be given, when possible, to interested 

 communities by public meetings. 



The purpose of the Service in its cooperation in forest planting, the 

 plan of which has been followed continuously since July 8, 1899, is to 

 establish in suitable localities examples of forest plantations of the 

 highest possible usefulness and value to their owners, to afford object 

 lessons of correct methods of forest planting, and to encourage the 

 artificial extension of forest growth in regions where the public welfare 

 demands a greater forest area. 



This offer does not include the preparation of plans for landscape 

 gardening or decorative tree planting of any kind, since such work is 

 entirely outside the province of the Forest Service. 



NATURE OF THE ASSISTANCE GIVEN. 



The assistance rendered is usually embodied in a planting plan. After 

 an application for assistance in forest planting has been approved, a 

 representative of the Service is usually sent to make a preliminary 

 examination of the applicant's land in order to determine the advisa- 

 bility of forest planting upon it. In localities where the needed acquaint- 

 ance with local conditions is possessed by the Service, the preliminary 

 examination will not be necessary. For small areas where neither pro- 

 longed study nor the services of assistants are required, the representa- 

 tive will secure the data for an office report and planting plan at one 

 examination, and the planting plan, if planting is advisable, will be 

 sent to the owner from Washington. For larger areas, requiring pro- 

 longed study or the services of assistants, or both, the results of the 

 preliminary examination will be embodied in a report to the owner. 

 If, as a result of the preliminary examination, the preparation of a 

 detailed planting plan is recommended, and the owner so desires, the 

 Forest Service will as soon as practicable undertake to prepare such a 

 plan. 



A planting plan contains full and comprehensive instructions for the 



