January 1904.] 



Tests of Forest Trees. 



115 



COOPERATIVE PLANTING. 



Tree Planting in Cooperation with U. S. Department 

 Agriculture. 



of 



During the years 1896 and 1897 this department, in cooperation 

 with the Division of Forestry, United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, made a number of plantings of various species of forest-trees to 

 test the adaptability of the species and the value of the various species 

 to be used as nurse crops for slow-growing trees. 



TABLE XIII. COOPERATIVE TREE PLANTING, 1896. 



