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forestry, oftentimes when tree-planting is meant, it may be well 

 to distinguish between it and the more humble but not less im- 

 portant tree-planting. 



Forestry, in brief, is the growing and caring for trees for 

 crops of timber. To inhabitants of the sub-arid region, and to 

 those of the Great Basin in particular, it is apparent at once, 

 that this industry can have but a small place with them. The 

 difficulties in getting the timber crop to the producing state are 

 too great. In tree-planting we deal with trees individually, 

 rather than in numbers, as in forestry, and with the object of 

 securing shade and shelter, and timber for fuel, and the minor 

 uses to which wood is put. Tree-planting is of secondary or 

 incidental importance to the farmer, from the standpoint of 

 money making; while a forest, rightly handled, receives coequal 

 attention with other crops as a source of income to its owner. 



A distinction between forestry and tree-planting does not 

 hold g-ood as regards the influence of trees upon climate, moist- 

 ure, soil and sanitary conditions. In relation to all these, and 

 other effects 1 , trees are of worth largely in proportion to their 

 number, whether planted in forests, on lawns, or along road- 

 sides. But since a forest, because of its area, can exert a so 

 much greater influence than can a small assemblage of trees, 

 a discussion of the significance of timber to our environment, 

 belongs properly to forestry rather than to tree-planting, and 

 hence is not found in this report, though the value of tree- 

 planting in this respect might well warrant such a discussion, 

 if space permitted. 



THE STATION EXPERIMENTS. 



The Utah Station is now conducting two experiments in 

 tree-growing. The origin and object of the one under con- 

 sideration, the older of the two, were stated in a previous para- 

 graph. The new plantation, as it is called, was started in the 

 spring of 1897, under the supervision of the Division of 

 Forestry of the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, D. 

 C. The object of this experiment, as stated by Mr. C. A. 

 Keffer, under whose direction the first installment of trees was 

 set, and in whose charge the work has been until recently, is: 

 "the determination of the adaptability of our principal 

 economic species to the plains, and successful methods and 

 after treatment that shall be within the range of the farmer." 



