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years they evidently became the victims of someone with a mis- 

 taken idea of beauty in tree form, and were shortened in to 

 become globes or cones. They have in some degree outgrown 

 the mutilation, but it is not possible to compare their rate of 

 growth with the pines. They are, however, thrifty and vigor- 

 ous even though the buffalo grass for several years disputed 

 their right to the ground they covered. The cedars at Dodge 

 City have been more fortunate than the ones at Ogallah, in that 

 they have never been mutilated. They compare well with other 

 species in rate of growth and offer an object lesson in the 

 value of this species for western Kansas planting. 



PLATE 8. Dodge City Forestry Station. 



The red cedar is the only evergreen tree native to Kansas, 

 but it is, or has been, widely distributed over the state. All 

 along the valleys of the Kaw and its tributaries even yet an 

 occasional group of this species may be found. The word 

 "cedar" is part of the name of a number of places in the state : 

 Cedar Bluffs, in Decatur county; Cedar Vale, in Chautauqua 

 county ; Cedar Point, in Chase county, are evidence of its wide 

 distribution. On the older maps of the state the short range 

 of limestone bluffs in Trego county bear the name "Cedar 

 Bluffs," and in early days many a canyon in Barber and Co- 

 manche counties bore local names denoting the fact that cedar 

 posts were a resource after the buffalo bones had all been col- 

 lected and hauled to the shipping points on the various rail- 

 roads. Every citizen in central and western Kansas whose 

 memory reaches back thirty years or more well remembers the 

 trade in cedar posts, which kept the wolf from the door of 

 many a sod shanty, but was disastrous to the forest area of 



