Mar. 1910.] Conditions in Central and Western Kansas. 297 



STATE OP KANSAS, 



OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. 



I, C. E. Denton, secretary of state of the state of Kansas, do hereby 

 certify that the above and foregoing is a correct copy of the original en- 

 rolled bill now on file in my office. 



IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and 

 affixed my official seal, this 13th day of March, 1909. 



[SEAL.] C. E. DENTON, 



Secretary of State. 



At the first meeting of the board of regents after the pas- 

 sage of the bill, as a preliminary measure to get the new work 

 under immediate headway, Albert Dickens, professor of hor- 

 ticulture and forestry at the Kansas State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, was appointed state forester. A reorganization of the 

 work at the Dodge City and Ogallah Stations was at once un- 

 dertaken in conformity with the provisions of the law. Mr. 

 Christian Jensen, a man of experience and training in forest 

 nursery and tree-planting work, was selected as assistant for- 

 ester and placed in charge of the Dodge City Station. Mr. 

 Jensen had received his training in forestry at the Biltmore 

 estate, Asheville, N. C., under Doctor Schenck, and had sev- 

 eral years' experience in nursery work in Iowa and Kansas. 

 Mr. Turner, a practical farmer and a man of considerable ex- 

 perience in nursery work, was employed as foreman of the 

 Ogallah Station. The efficient work that these men accom- 

 plished is described in the following pages of the bulletin. 



The appointment of Professor Dickens as state forester was 

 recognized by him as a temporary arrangement until such 

 time as he could recommend the appointment of a permanent 

 state forester who could devote his entire time to the work. 

 The Forestry Service of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture was asked to recommend a man who had the 

 ability and training to undertake the duties of state forester 

 as prescribed by the law. Very happily the regents were able 

 to secure the man recommended by the Forestry Service. Pro- 

 fessor Dickens recommended that the forestry work be put on 

 an independent basis, and the plans as outlined by him were 

 submitted to the Forestry Service. Their recommendation was 

 made in the following words : 



"We heartily approve of your suggestion of putting for- 

 estry on an independent basis at the College and of the plans 

 you have outlined for handling the subject. It gives us great 

 pleasure to be able to recommend to you a man whom we are 



