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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



October 



the million at a cost that will permit 

 of forest planting as a safe business 

 venture. Present prices and present 

 methods of nursery practice, partic- 

 larly with conifers, are hindering the 

 cause of forest planting more than all 

 other influences combined. Our nur- 

 serymen must learn that a forest plan- 



customer need not be ignored who 

 wants a half-dozen trees once a year 

 to plant on his blue grass lawn and is 

 willing to pay a good, round price for 

 the operation of transplanting which 

 such trees require preliminary to the 

 endurance of hard and unnatural en- 

 vironmental conditions ; but these peo- 



Grove of European Larch, 16 years old at Clear Lake, S. D., in 

 Winter, Showing Contrast Between the Larch and Nor- 

 way Spruce, both Species having been Planted at the 

 Same Time. 





tation is not a lawn or dooryard plan- 

 tion, that for forestry purposes very 

 small seedlings are much to be pre- 

 ferred to expensive transplanted trees, 

 and that the present methods of nur- 

 sery practice can be improved and 

 cheapened to a great degree. The city 



pie are not all the people in the world 

 who desire to plant trees. Minnesota 

 farmers ought to plant millions of for- 

 est trees where the city people plant 

 scores, and they will plant in the fu- 

 ture by the millions if the grower of 

 seedlings will put the cost of this 



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