NEWS AND XOTES 



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AY .o '/;v</. That we rec< .mmeiid that 

 measures for ref< in -tati< m upon our 

 Xational forests be be.^un and pushed 

 r;i])idly forward. 



AY.sWrrJ. further. uls. That copies 

 <>f these resolution- be sent to tlie I\ep- 

 leseiitative in Congress from this dis- 



data for the beiu-tit of the 

 agriculturists 'who are developing the 

 Western plains. At present wind- 

 break- are planted hapha/.ard. OIK- kind 

 here, another there. If one kind i- bet- 

 ter than another, the government ex- 

 pert- tHuk that fact ou.^lu to tie known. 



WINDBREAK 

 Monterey Cypress Sheltering an Orange Orchard, San Bernardino County, California 



trict. with the request that he support. 

 so far as possible, the recommendations 

 herein made. 



Government to Study Shelterbclts for Benefit 

 of Farming Interests 



UXCLK SAM'S tree-planting and 

 farm expert- have just undertaken 

 a practical and scientific -tudy >f the 

 use and effect of timber windbreak- 

 and shelterbelt- in the agricultural re- 

 gions of fourteen \\"e-teru states. This 

 is the first time in tin- country that a 

 study of tin- much-discussed question 

 ha- been undertaken Over a wide re- 

 -i >n under one plan, for the purpose of 



and it is believed that the study alxmt 

 to be undertaken will settle the ques- 

 tion once for all. It will at least col- 

 lect such facts never before hnmidit 

 together. 



The work will be done b\ the I nif.-d 

 State- l ; ore>t Service. In some -tatc< 

 the agricultural experiment -tatidis 

 will cooperate in the studies, and in 

 the-e cases the Fore-t Service' will pro- 

 vide the uece-sary apparatus, and the 

 other expenses will be -bared half and 

 half by the < iovcrnmcnt and experi- 

 ment -tation-. The investigation- will 

 be taken up in five state- thi- year and 

 extended to the other nine a- rapidly a- 

 the investigations are complete'!. Four 

 of the -tate- in which the -tudv will be 



