390 MISC. PUBLICATION 218, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
1913 (S. L. ch. 140, p. 160), a general law repealing all ‘‘standing”’ 
appropriations, including the provision of this law, making the sum 
of $20,000 available each year for the payment of tree-planting 
bounties. To take care of such bounty payments, the general 
appropriation act of April 28, 1913 (S. L. ch. 401, sec. 46, p. 583), 
carried an amount of $10,000 for the next biennium. No such 
appropriation was made in 1915 or in subsequent biennial appro- 
priation acts. In this withdrawal of financial support from the bounty 
act, the attitude of the then newly organized State forestry board is 
significant. In the first annual report of the State forester, issued in 
December 1911 (205, Rept. 1), it was pointed out that, in expending 
to date the sum of nearly $600,000 for tree-planting bounties in the 
prairie section, the State had greatiy exceeded its efforts to preserve 
the enormously valuable existing natural forests elsewhere in the 
State. This same point was strongly reiterated in the 1912 report 
(205, Rept. 2), and the recommendation was made that, in order to 
offset this disparity, not to exceed 40 percent of the bounty appropria- 
tion be made available to the forestry board, to enable it to conduct 
experimental and demonstration work of direct value to all forests and 
forest owners. It was also recommended that any balance from the 
bounty appropriation be made available for the expenses of a State 
forest nursery. 
Nevada similarly followed the provisions of the Kansas bounty 
act in the act of March 7, 1873 (S. L. ch. 82, p. 162), the chief differ- 
ence being that the bounty was made applicable only to plantings 
made within 5 years of the passage of the act, which limitation was 
extended to 10 years by the act of March 5, 1877 (S. L. ch. 118, p. 
185). The amending act also specifically excluded from the benefits 
of the bounty willows and cottonwoods planted for the express purpose 
of protecting ditches and canals. 
Illinois, by the act of February 9, 1874 (Rev. Stats. 1874, ch. 136, 
p. 1056), authorized county supervisors to offer a bounty of not 
more than $10 an acre for 3 years for the planting of 1 or more acres 
of forest trees, the trees to be not more than 10 feet apart, and cul- 
tivated for 3 years. 
Nebraska, by the act of February 27, 1879 (S. L. p. 187), required 
counties to pay annually a bounty of $3.33 per acre for not over 3 
acres of forest trees planted in rows (six rows 8 feet apart with trees 
4 feet apart in the rows) along the north section lines and half section 
lines of any tract for such time, not exceeding 5 years, as this planta- 
tion should be cultivated. This act, as codified, was repealed by the 
act of March 22, 1899 (S. L. ch. 3, p. 53). 
Dakota Territory, by the act of March 13, 1885 (S. L. ch. 145, p. 
212), provided for an annual bounty of $2 per acre for a period of 
10 years for the planting within the succeeding 5 years of 1 or more 
acres of forest trees, except black locust or cottonwood, and cultivat- 
ing the same for 3 years. Like the Minnesota law, planting by rail- 
roads within 200 feet of their tracks and by settlers on Federal timber 
culture claims were ineligible. 
Kansas, by the act of March 2, 1889 (S. L. ch. 254, p. 386), followed 
the Illinois act of 1874 and authorized county supervisors to offer a 
bounty of not more than $10 an acre for a period of 5 years for each 
acre planted to forest trees spaced not over 10 feet apart and kept 
cultivated and in good condition, lands entered under the Federal 
