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PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 



Prairie States should encourage the planting of heavy and frequent tim- 

 ber belts, running east and west, to overcome the effects of siroccos or hot 

 winds which annually are so destructive throughout the Missouri Valley 

 States. In this work Congress should be asked to extend Government assist- 

 ance. 



It would be money well expended were the States to distribute seeds 

 of forest trees. Since the failure of that important timber culture act can be 

 wholly attributed to the neglect of the Government to provide trees and 

 seeds suitable for growth upon prairie and plain, the only available trees 

 being what the pioneers could find on the river bars, cottonwood and 

 box elder both totally unsuited to such changed location it is full time that 



A l-'ALLE.S I Kl.i. IN PETRIFIED FOKEST, ARIZONA. 



the Government and States should offer practical encouragement for the 

 planting of trees and perpetuation of these forests, for the railways to show 

 their confidence by making extensive plantations and for the farmers of the 

 nation to awaken from their indifference and plant trees as a profitable farm 

 crop. 



If you love your country prove it by planting trees for its adornment 

 and for the benefit of your fellow men. 



The petrified forest, pictures of which are shown herewith, is in Western 

 Arizona, between 6 and 12 miles southwest from Adamana, and 18 to 24 miles 

 southeast of Holbrook. These two towns are on the main line of the Atchison, 

 Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. 



The locality in question is covered by petrifactions of wood that retain 

 the shape of the trunks and branches of trees lying like fallen timber on the 

 ground. The retention of the original form is so exact in many cases that it 

 is no misnomer to call it a forest, though the trees are no longer standing. 



