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they stand close together and here, this sandy soil, and will ^rw be- 



where thus sheltered from the south than willows, and at tin- rate <>i 



\\inds, corn yields six bushels more inch per year. 



per acre than in the rest of the field. Mr. \Yeber stated that vast plain.- 



A county officer, who quotes Mr. in the Argentine Republic are 



Thompson on the figures of the in- in soil to Gahan-t Island, and that 



creased yield, says that the different he will report and recommend 



appearance of the sheltered portion of planting of cottonwond on a \ 



this field, compared with the other, is scale, as he is satisfied from the 



very noticeable. Six bushels per periment of the St. Louis pa: 



acre on fifteen acres increases the that it will pay better in many pi; 



yield of the field by ninety bushels, than farming. 



This at 25 cents per bushel, amount- Cabaret Island in the future will 



ing to $22.50, much more than com- probably be given over to tree growth. 



pensates for the loss of ground occu- J. C. Reintges is head forester. 

 pied by the trees, which are now ap- 

 proaching a size suitable for box 



boards and other purposes. Number' v se , cr * tar >\ T f 



Number .National Box Manuiac- 



D _ -, turers' Association has 



lound g fo r r P Phe A f mer f lca ? 1 B tt 1 n \ S made the following estimate: Annual 



Swamp Land are a % ^ consumption of boxes in the United 



on the Mississippi g 600.000,000. Net feet of lum- 



River near St. Louis The soil is fe . 3,000,000.000; selling 



rich, but the land is otten flooded by yalue of boxes, $ 75 ,i)O,ooo. 

 the river. It is found, however, that Mr Wm ,, AIc rshoili of the M ich- 



the American Bottoms can be made . Fofest Investi?ation Commis- 



to pay large profits, other than from * estimates that the waste in mak- 



crops of corn and wheat, and that in in boxes would raise the feet o 



spite of floods The crop for such a j ^ b used tQ nearly ha , f a milli ,, n 



location is timber. more Re addg that the immense de . 



Mr. Frank Weber, Secretary of mand for boxes made the fortunes of 



Forestry for the Argentine Republic, severa i manufacturers in the : 



is in this country, and visited St. naw yallev of Michigan. 

 Louis a few days ago, says the Globe 

 Democrat, to inquire about the Amer- 



ican Bottoms experiment. Messrs. Planting Mr. Mcrsh<m i- giving 



W. F. and F. G. Niedringhaus took Thousands of practical application to 

 him to Cabaret Island, just north of his position as a pro- 



the city, where they have 100 acres moter of reforestation in Michigan. 



planted in cottonwood trees, averag- He and some associates have acquired 



ing 25 feet in height and 5 inches in 1,600 acres of land along the An 



diameter, and valued at $20,000. Sable River, which is bring prepared 



In 1903, just after the big flood for planting to pirn-- m spring. 



had destroyed $10,000 worth of crops They have purcha-ed '.5.000 pin. 



on the island, they concluded to ex- seedlings for delivery prior to 



perwnent in forestry; they planted T next: also 250 pound- 



20,000 seedlings in three-foot squares, pine seed and --5 pounds ..t 



and have cultivated them since, with way pine seed. There a: ~ >oo 



the result that the trees are now val- seeds to a pound of N'orway pine. 



tied at $20,000, and in three years and it is calculated it will 



more will double in value, despite any thirty to forty years to grow ti 



floods. large enough to be utili/o! for tim- 



Cottonwood is very adaptable to ber. 



