IACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 433 



PLANTING MILLIONS OF TREES. 



The author does not coi;/..:-j his efforts to the merely literary pursuit of writ- 

 ing articles for his journal. 



He is actively engaged in directing the work of planting forests, to bring 

 them into a successful timber-producing stage. 



Swiftly moving from one plantation to another, selecting the lands, procur- 

 ing the trees, employing labor, planting the forests, his time is fully occupied. 



The work is going on in the South all winter, planting ten thousand trees 

 daily. \\\ the first of May, 1906, there was considerably more than a million 

 trees planted in twenty different locations and in twelve States, besides the 

 great number of trees being planted by individual land owners through hio 

 advice, amounting to fully as many additional trees. 



A better idea may be had oT the quantity by estimating how long it would 

 take one man to count and handle these trees. 



\Yorking eight hours a day, and merely picking up one tree at a time, ten 

 each minute, it would require eight months' constant labor to thus handle and 

 count a million trees. 



And yet this enterprise has only made a beginning. The land owners, 

 farmers, railways and manufacturers are just awakening to the fact that trees 

 must be planted if we would have lumber and ties and wood to continue the 

 industries of this great country a few brief years hence. 



