CHAPTER VII. 



THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PLANTATION 



AMONG THE SAND HILLS OF NEBRASKA. 



At least one-flfth 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 Kindnf^s of Forestry Department.) 



