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The Halsey station, on the Dismal River Reserve, is being made the 

 main producing point for the treeless reserves of the Middle West. It 

 contains at present approximately 1,700,000 trees, of which about 

 1,000,000 will be large enough to set in the sandhills next spring. 

 With the additions, the annual productive capacity of the nursery will 

 be about 3,000,000 trees. Yellow pine and jack pine are the most 

 promising species for local use. Scotch pine, Norway pine, red fir, 

 and red cedar are also being tried. Deciduous trees, such as honey 

 locust, Russian mulberry, Osage orange, and hackberry, are being 

 grown for use in the Gard,en City and Portales reserves. 



In the Santa Barbara and San Gabriel reserves, where planting to 

 reclothe denuded drainage basins is a difficult but very essential under- 

 taking, 62,000 trees, mainly knobcone. Coulter, and Jeffrey pine, 

 bigcone spruce, and incense cedar, have been set out. 



The Clyde nursery in the Pikes Peak Reserve contains 410,000 seed- 

 lings, and new nursery beds have been sown in Bear Creek Canyon. 

 Twenty thousand red fir seedlings from the Halsey nursery were 

 planted in May. 



Reserve planting operations will be extended this year by establishing 

 a large number of small nurseries at permanent rangers' headquarters. 



The section of cooperative planting handles the cooperative work 

 done under the provisions of Circular No. 22, and conducts special 

 investigations where further information on forest planting is urgently 

 needed. Under the terms of the circular, planting plans are made 

 without charge for small landowners, public and educational institu- 

 tions, and other branches of the Government. Similar work is done 

 for large landowners and corporations at their expense. Only a limited 

 amount of cooperative work, however, can be undertaken, and the 

 Service reserves the right to accept only the projects which are of the 

 highest educational value. The assistance offered does not include the 

 preparation of plans for landscape gardening or decorative planting' of 

 any kind. 



In connection with the irrigation project of the Reclamation Service 

 studies are being made by which tree growth may be encouraged 

 among settlers of the irrigated land. Thus 50,000 trees have been 

 supplied for planting in the North Platte project and field work is 

 under way for forest planting on the Truckee-Carson project. Simi- 

 larly, cooperation with the North Platte private irrigation project is 

 on foot. On the desert lands which irrigation will reclaim for agri- 

 culture settlers are far removed from timber supplies and exposed to 

 the winds, and will need woodlots to supply themselves with fuel, 

 posts, and poles, and similar farm material, as well as shelterbelts to 

 protect both the fields and the farmsteads. The Service will suggest 

 the best trees and methods for these purposes. Again, on the bluffs 

 and slopes, which will not feel the benefit of irrigation, there will be 



