ILLUSTRATIONS 



Map. 



Page. 

 Map showing silvical belts and rainfall Frontispiece. 



Plates. 



Plate 1. Fig. 1. — A '"lister" double moldboard plow making shallow 

 furrows for planting locust seed. Fig. 2.— Planting forest 

 trees in lister furrows on the semiarid plains 16 



II. Fig. L — A portable sawmill converting info lumber cottonwood 



- from planted trees 1.", years old, Kingman County, Kans. 

 !. — Locust on aii abandoned "tree claim" in southwest- 

 ern Kansas 16 



III. Fiu. I .—Locust and hardy catalpa in mixture, eastern Kansas. 



ash I years old, Staked Plains of Texas .... :!2 



IV. Plantation on the staked Plains of Texas, made according to 



planting plai Fig. 1. — Locust 5 years old in fore- 

 ground: white elm in background. Fig. 2.- Locust •"> years 

 old; cultivation between rows neglected - 32 



Ti:xi Fiuure-s. 



Fig. 1. Heeling in yi 13 



2. Planting plan f elands Belt .. 17 



:;. Planting plan for a demonstration area in the Lowlands Belt 21 



!. Plan for a commercial plantation in the Red Beds Belt 26 



5. Another plan for the Red Beds 29 



• '.. Model planting plan for a prairie farm 32 

 7. Model planting plan for the plains of eastern New Mexico and 



western Tex - ; !7 



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