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water, 36. Forest influences on wind and hail storms, 37; on fogs 

 and clouds, 38. Improvement of land on which trees grow, 38. 

 Prairies, why treeless, 39. Rainfall and height of water table in 

 land, 40. Source of our hot winds, 42. 



CHAPTER IV. 



TREE PLANTING ON PRAIRIES. 



"Windbreaks, 45; Shelter belts, 45. List of trees for planting, 52. 

 Cultivation and thinning, 55. Location of farm buildings, 59. 



CHAPTER V. 



FOREST REGENERATION. 



Regeneration statements, 62. The selection methods. Strip 

 method, 64. Group method, 65. Regeneration by artificial seed- 

 ing, 67; by planting seedlings, 70; by sprouts and suckers, 73. 

 Thinning, 76. Improvement cuttings, 78. The farm wood-lot, 78. 

 Osier willows, 79. 



CHAPTER VI. 



PROPAGATION. 



By seeds, 84. Gathering and storing seeds, 84-87. Stratification 

 of seeds, 88. Storing and sowing of seeds, 88-98. Raising conifer- 

 ous seedlings of different kinds, 95. Amount of seed to sow, 98. 

 Table showing approximate height of one-year-old seedlings, 99. 

 Cuttings, care and management, 101-105. Layers, care and man- 

 agement, 105. 



CHAPTER VII. 



NURSERY PRACTICE. 



Soil and cultivation for the nursery, 109. Grades of nursery 

 stock, 110. Transplanting, 111. Heeling-in, 116. Pruning, 118. 

 Care and management of street trees, 122. Watering, 126. Packing 

 nursery stock, 128. 



