CHAPTER Vn. 



THE UNiTED STATES GOVERNMENT PLANTATION 



AMONG THE SAND HILLS OF NEBRASKA. 



At least one-fifth of this great state Is sand and compara- 

 tively worthless. How to save this immense area is a problem. 

 The effort to forest this region was in a measure inspired by the 

 remarkable success secured in France in kindred circumstances. 



Forest of Maritime Pine on the Drifting Sand Dunes of France. 

 (By Kindness of Forestry Department.) 



