tion will not be necessary the first season, while the second 

 season, with our dense planting, the trees should be able to 

 help themselves." This method is suggested more for the 

 Sand Hill region of Nebraska than for localities having a stiff 

 clay subsoil. It is certainly very different from our ordinary 

 practices, and if successful generally should act as a great im- 

 petus to tree planting, as it reduces the work to a minimum. 

 The reason why it is introduced here, is not to recommend it, 

 but only to indicate a fundamental principle in forest planting: 

 the necessity of securing a shade for the ground at the earliest 

 possible moment. So far as the method suggested by Prof. 

 Fernow is concerned, it would seem impracticable in this state, 

 where the grasses quickly take uncultivated ground, and where 

 the ordinary rainfall is not sufficient to insure the vigorous 

 growth trees would have to make to overcome the grasses and 

 weeds. However, it is an experiment easily tried, and planters 

 would get some interesting experience by devoting a small plat 

 to the work. 



