SCHOOL OF FORESTRY 



visit the land. Applications which are not received by that time will be 

 left over until the following year. 



NOTE: This regulation will be waived for the year 1914, and every 

 effort will be made to meet the wishes of landowners this year. Applica- 

 tions for planting in 1915 should, if possible, be sent in before June 1 , 1914. 

 While the State School of Forestry is just starting in upon this work 

 of aiding in the planting of trees in North Dakota it may not be amiss 

 to call attention to the fact that in Canada the Department of the Interior 

 has been carrying on similar work in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta 

 since 1901. The work there has been carried on under rules and regula- 

 tions which their experience has proved necessary and satisfactory, and 

 from which the foregoing regulations have been adapted. In 1910, after 

 nine years of work, they have published a bulletin containing a large num- 

 ber of letters from settlers who had been assisted in the planting of trees. 

 These letters, coming from men who are in very similar circumstances to 

 the landowners in our own state to whom this offer is open, are full of 

 encouragement to those who are doubtful as to the advisability of planting. 

 Everyone realizes that farmhouses on our prairies should be surrounded 

 by windbreaks and that our farms should have shelterbelts across them. 

 Not all, however, have felt sure that trees could be successfully grown. 

 The Canadian experience, under less favorable conditions than our own, 

 ought to convince the most skeptical. 



Tree Planting Testimonial, from a landowner of the Prairie Province 

 of Canada who received help in tree planting similar to that now 

 offered to landowners in North Dakota by the State School of 

 Forestry. 



Crandall, Manitoba, Jan. 1910. 



Dear Sir: Your communication regarding success of trees I have 

 planted out to hand. 



The first ones I planted have had five seasons' growth and are from 

 fifteen to eighteen feet high. They so thoroughly shade the ground that 

 cultivation is unnecessary. Both this winter and last they have kept the 

 snow from gathering around the buildings to a great extent, and are getting 

 high enough to provide considerable shelter from the wind. The varieties 

 used were ash, Manitoba maple and Dakota cottonwood. My trees are 

 the admiration of the whole neighborhood, and add very much to both 

 the beauty and value of the place. I consider the hedge worth $500.00 

 at least. 



There have been a number of my neighbours inquire of me where I 

 got my trees and some of them have since planted for themselves. 



(Signed) CHAS. M. FORSTER. 



