Tree Distribution Under the Kinkaid Act 3 
fire and stock have been kept out these wood lots are furnishing 
their owners with shelter for buildings and stock, as well as a sup- 
ply of fuel and farm-repair material. (Figs. 2 and 3.) 
Jack pines planted at Halsey in 1903 by the Forest Service had 
an average diameter at the end of 1924 of 4.8 inches at breast 
Fig. 2.—Jack pine and cottonwood plantation protecting a farmhouse in [lolt 
County, Nebr. 
height—414 feet above the ground—and an average height of 24 
feet. (Fig. 4.) The maximum diameter and height is 6.1 inches 
and 32 feet. The accumulation of pine needles on the ground and 
the shading out of the grass and the lower branches of the trees 
indicate that forest conditions now prevail. Later plantations have 
Fig. 5.—Cottonwood and western yellow pine planted on the north and west of a 
ranch house in Thomas County, Nebr. 
had a survival of from 50 to 85 per cent on the roughest and 
lightest sand hills in the State. About 10,000 acres have been suc- 
cessfully planted here by the Federal Government, and it is evident 
that tree raising is no longer an experiment in this territory, for- 
merly considered so inhospitable to tree growth. 
