64 Wyoming Experiment Station. 



Nebraska, recently the treeless state of the Great 

 plains, is no longer treeless. Orchards here, shady lanes 

 there, and groves yonder meet the eye of the traveler as 

 he is whirled across its broad acres. No longer can the 

 eye follow the landscape until the gray of the undulating 

 hills blends with the gray of the sky on the distant hori- 

 zon. Its transformation in one generation from dreary 

 treelessness to restful though animated homelikeness must 

 be considered one of the achievements of the age. This 

 result is certainly one of the factors that have contrib- 

 uted to the greatness of our neighboring commonwealth. 



One of the most potent influences in bringing about 

 this desirable result has been the awakening of a public 

 sentiment, in regard to trees, the like of which has no- 

 where else in the United States been secured and all this 

 largely through the schools. The school touches every 

 home. Let the light of enthusiasm shine out in the 

 teacher, then soon t,he whole school is ablaze with eager- 

 ness and the reflection extends even beyond the neigh- 

 borhood bounds. 



This sentiment for trees and enthusiasm for tree 

 planting reached its climax in Nebraska in the years im- 

 mediately following the establishment of Arbor Day, at 

 the suggestion of Hon. J. Sterling Morton. He will be 

 gratefully remembered for that act long after his other 

 public services have been forgotten, not only in Nebraska 

 but in all the states where Arbor Day has become an es- 

 tablished institution an institution the observance of 

 which is now all but universal. 



Speed the day when interest in this subject shall 

 sweep over Wyoming, and, to hasten its coming, may we 

 not hope to enlist the co-operation of all the teachers 



