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ing condition. The owner estimates the posts and poles as 

 much superior to the cutting made ten years ago and the con- 

 dition of the trees is all that could be desired. Many of them 

 have a height of twenty-five feet and a diameter of three and 

 a half inches. 



A mile east of the McCauley timber claim is a plantation 

 made in 1882 and still owned by Mr. Benj. Haywood. The ten 

 acres consists for the most part of cottonwood and black locust. 

 The soil is specially favorable for tree growth, being a rich 

 sandy loam, and the trees have made a very creditable growth. 

 A number of the cottonwoods are eighteen inches in diameter 

 at four feet from the ground, and twelve inches in diameter at 

 the height of twenty-five feet. Many are seventy feet high. 



The black locusts have evidently outgrown the injury in- 



PLATE 15. Haywood timber claim. 



flicted by insects during their early years, and the grove con- 

 tains many fine trees of this species. A number measure over 

 forty feet in height. Many would yield good poles twenty-four 

 feet long, and a few good thirty-foot poles might be cut. Many 

 average six inches in diameter and the best are eight inches 

 through at four feet from the ground. 



HONEY LOCUST. 



Of all the species tested in many parts of western Kansas, 

 the honey locust is the most conspicuous success. 



Its rate of growth is only moderate, but the rate is main- 



