Tree Distribution Under the Kinkaid Act 



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 Holt 



County, Nebr. 



height — 4!/2 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. 3. — 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. 



