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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



SIX YEARS AGO THIS WAS A BARRKN BLOW HOLE 

 Since then the planting of black walnuts, locusts and cottonwood, together with a luxuriant growth of grass, has quite transformed its appearance. 



made to grow there by the presence of one huge cot- ing of sand in their immediate vicinity, thereby pro- 



tonwood tree standing almost in the middle of the tecting growing crops on other land nearby. He then 



tract. This tree also suggested the species which went into the business of tree planting on a huge 



would most likely thrive in the sand. He also decided scale, planting about 70,()()0 trees altogether on some 



TREES PLANTED IN SAND AT END OK A BLOW HOLE 

 These trees, cottonwoods, are now seven years old and act as perfect 

 sand binders. The grass is beginning to creep into the sand in front of 

 the trees. 



to try the black locust, since, like the cottonwood, it 

 has the faculty of storing nitrogen in the soil through 

 the ministration of the bacteria on its roots. 



The first year Mr. Abbott planted 5,000 yearling 

 trees, and in a little over a year they were three or four 

 feet high, and grass began to creep in between. In 

 another year they had successfully checked the blow- 



THIS TREE GAVE THE PLANTER HIS IDEA 

 This large cottonwood was the only tree on a seventy-acre tract of sandy 

 soil when it came into possession of A. N. Abbott, and it gave the idea of 

 planting other trees in the effort to reclaim the sandy wantes. 



TO acres of land, or at the rate of 1,000 trees per acre, 

 the spacing being about 6 by 7 feet. The yearling 

 plants were bought at an average price of $3 per 

 thou.sand, and the cost of planting them was relatively 



