Show TREES OF TREELESS PLAINS I Prairie Regions of Kansas to Be l Studied This Summer by Experts Washington April Western Kansas Kan-sas north of time Arkansas river and west of a lino drawn from Osborno through llussell to Lamed will receive time particular par-ticular attention of the bureau of forestry for-estry this Hummer A study of the tree growth of that region will b gln this month under the direction of R S Kel IOKET of Russell Kan nu ngcnl for the lntrcau Inc will bo continued until fall In this part of the State the timber penc I rat Is the prairies by way of the river bottoms clinging closely to these moist lauds and advancing only occasionally to I time ujjlunds The bureau will study tho tendency of the trees and shrubs along tho water courses to Increase and nproad LHpeclally when protected from 1lro and stock and will determine what species arc best adapted to planting on those uplands that contain no natural growth In many places along the streams whore fire nnd stock have been excluded for ten or fifteen yours arc found thrifty yoiinir coltonwoods white ohis box elders and other species which are slowly Invading time great plain The low rainfall of western Kansas Is I not alone responsible for the scarcity of timber The Pine RIdge country of Ne braska grow forests with only 1C Inches oi rain a year while the treeless regions of western Kansas have a precipitation of Ifi i to 20 Inches Failures In treeplanting aside from nuiurul causes such as hh winds suid Intense sunlight are due chletly to a lack of euro In planting and cultivating and 1 lack of knowledge of what kinds of tines to planU Such failures havu had an excellent rcfiuH they have given a fairly I good knowledge of what to and what not to plant and of the methods that are successful and those that arC not It hi partly t Increase tills 1 knowledge that I ho bureau haM undertaken its study or I tho treegrowth of the State Timber I fuel posts nnd Jh wood may be grown In the prairie regions that fact is estab lished Hut the plantations to be successful suc-cessful must be composed of the right species planted In the right way on tho right I kind of land irnd eared for In the right manner |