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first the short lived, soft wood trees, in particular the cottonwood, 

 but at the same time intermix with ash and black walnuts. My for- 

 est culture, as carried on now for thirty years, has proved success 

 along this line, of the many experiments I have made, and I invite 

 you to call and see for yourself. 



Wishing you unbounded success in your endeavors to advance the 

 interest of forestry and horticulture, I remain, yours very truly, 



Wm. Stolley. 



HOW TO GROW NURSERY STOCK IN NORTH- 

 WESTERN NEBRASKA. 



BY W. F. JENKINS. 



This subject is one that needs more experience than any of us have 

 been able to obtain. The northwestern part of the state is still a new 

 country. My experience and observation does not extend in this di- 

 rection further than Loup county. The first nursery established in 

 this part of the state was planted by one Mr. Alderman, near Fort 

 Hartsuff, eleven miles northwest of Ord, in the spring of 1879. For 

 three years his nursery stock did very well, and his prospects for 

 success were quite flattering, when the worst hail storm that ever vis- 

 ited this part of the state since it was settled completely destroyed 

 everything above the ground. Mr. Alderman w T as discouraged and 

 never replanted. This was the end of the first nursery in Valley 

 county. In 1885 I established the Arcadia nursery. My observa- 

 tion convinces me that the best locality for a nursery in this part of 

 Nebraska is high table-land, just rolling enough to afford natural 

 drainage. All of our table-lands are rich enough to grow nursery 

 stock without any fertilizer. As a rule we have no frosts to do any 

 damage on the table-lands, either in spring or fall, for from ten to fif- 

 teen days after there has been heavy frosts in the low valleys and river 

 bottoms. 



In preparing the ground I would use the same care and cultivation 

 necessary in any other part of the state. I prefer planting in wider 

 rows than is customary among nurserymen where lands are more ex- 

 pensive than they are here. I can grow stockier and more evenly- 



