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try; and an educational campaign through, the preparation 

 and distribution of press bulletins, by correspondence and by 

 ' various other means, is being conducted by the secretary of the 

 State Forestry Board. 



KANSAS. 



Important forestry investigations have been conducted by 

 the Kansas State Agricultural College since the early days of 

 its existence, and, prior to 1909v most of the work done was 

 accomplished through this agency. Naturally, the problem in 

 central and western Kansas has been the reforesting of prairies. 

 Forest tree plantings have been made at various times frora 

 1874 to 1909. These have been under scientific observation 

 and have made possible such studies by the State Agricultural 

 College as rate of growth of various species; methods of propa 

 gation ; the value of various species for windbreaks, commercial 

 plantations, and as ornamental trees; the causes of success and 

 failure of artificial forests; investigation of the value and dis- 

 tribution of native species, etc. 



In 1887 the legislature established 2 State Forestry Sta- 

 tions, one near Ogallah in Trego County, another near Dodge 

 City in Ford County. Both stations are situated on elevated 

 prairie land such as predominates in the western third of Kan- 

 sas. The chief work of the stations has been the growing ^f 

 forest tree seedlings and distributing them to the citizens of 

 the state. Although the work at these places was neglected 

 during some periods large numbers of trees were grown anl 

 distributed. Species of trees grown for distribution and for 

 demonstration planting at Ogallah and Dodge Cit}^ ^stations 

 include the follomng: red cedar, austrian pine, scotch pine, 

 green ash, black locust, honey locust, osage orange, black walnut, 

 hackberry, |coffee bean, russian mulberry, ailanthus;, russian 

 olive, Cottonwood and catalpas. 



According to Prof. Albert Dickens, former State Forester, 

 "The forestry work that has been done in central and western 

 Kansas in the past quarter century has resulted in a large num- 

 ber of good tree plantations, many poor ones and some total 

 failures." Further on in his ''Report of Conditions in Central 



