Growing Forest Trees in Western Nebraska 19 



The Honey Locust and Hackberry give promise of being 

 most useful for fence posts and for windbreaks about the farm. 



SPECIES LEAST PROMISING. 



The following table gives a list of the trees which we are 

 trying but consider unsatisfactory: 



Fig. 12. Honey Locust grove on bench land, October, 1912. Planted in 

 1907. Height, about 10 feet. 



TABLE 4. Trees that are very unsatisfactory for planting in 



this region. 



Black Locust; killed by borers. 

 Catalpa ; killed back during winter but sprout. 

 Osage Orange; killed by freezing. 

 Russian Mulberry ; winterkills or grows scrubby. 

 Green Ash ; injured by borers. 



Russian Golden Willow; dies after a few years, probably from 

 drouth. 



Our experience indicates that the trees in the above list 

 should be planted only on an experimental scale, if nt all. under 

 conditions similar to those prevailing here. The Black Locust is 

 the most promising of any until the borers attack it. but these 



