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able moisture conditions, and a large percentage of these cuttings 

 took root and made good growth. In northern Montana an early 

 frost occurring in August caused some damage. During the winter 

 of 1916-17 nearly all the trees were injured by freezing to some 

 extent, but none as severely as the willow and poplar. 



Details of the 1917 shipments, which totaled 357,700, are also given 

 in Table 3. White elm was used for the first time this year and, 

 although the summer was very dry, made an excellent growth. The 

 Norway and Carolina poplars proved so unsatisfactory in both 1916 

 and 1917 that their use was discontinued. Cuttings of both willow 

 and poplar were almost a complete failure under the drj^ conditions 

 that prevailed, and the further use of cuttings for demonstration 

 I)lantings was discontinued. 



Table 3. — Number of trees of each species or kind of stock shipped to co- 

 operators in each State in 1916 and 1917. 





Species or kind of stock. 





Season and State. 



WiUow 

 (cut- 

 tings). 



Willow 

 (rooted). 



Poplar 

 (cut- 

 tings). 



■ 



Poplar 

 (rooted). 



Box 



elder. 



Green 

 ash. 



Cara- 

 gana. 



White 

 elm. 



Total. 



Season of 1916: 

 Montana . . 



126,506 

 30,408 

 23,708 

 9,504 



10,283 



4,139 



1,233 



294 



120,983 

 28,279 

 26,580 

 9,243 



15,291 

 5,562 

 1,157 

 2, 073 



140, 550 

 37, 159 

 25, 519 

 10,185 



3,964 



12,969 



100 



33,977 

 13,287 

 5,626 

 3,332 





451, 554 



North Dakota . . 





131,803 



South Dakota. . 





83,923 



Wynming 





34,631 











Total 



190, 126 



15,949 ! 185,085 



24,083 



213,413 



17, 033 



56,222 





701,911 









Season of 1917: 



Montana 



6,211 



2,512 



638 



65,002 

 20,507 

 8,703 

 4 379 





16,114 



4,244 

 2,044 

 2,748 



39.798 

 14,995 

 6,771 

 3 667 



69,600 



30,473 



9,338 



2 412 



2,163 

 922 

 283 

 505 



27,982 



10,906 



4,154 



629 



226,870 



North Dakota . . 





84, 559 



South Dakota. . 





31,931 



Wyoming 





14,340 















Total 



9,361 



98,591 





25, 150 



65,231 



111,823 



3,873 



43,671 



357,700 









Figure 9 shows one of the 1916 plantings, made near Fowler, Mont., 

 that is becoming an effective unit in the development of a farm home 

 on the Plains. 



Figure 10 is reproduced from a photograph taken in 1921 of one 

 of the 1917 plantings at Dupree, S. Dak. The trees have had clean 

 cultivation and made good growth. After one or two more seasons' 

 growth the trees will meet between the rows and cultivation cease. 



Figure 11 shows one of the plantings made in 1918 in western North 

 Dakota that was abandoned to weeds after two years of cultivation. 

 Trees on upland in this section can not compete with perennial grasses 

 and annual weeds. 



Shipments in 1918 totaled only 142,302. The number of each spe- 

 cies sent to each State is. shown in Table 4. The marked reduction 

 in the amount of planting stock sent out was due to the severe 

 drought of 1917, which caused great loss to the trees grown at the 

 station nursery. 



