Show RECLAIMS JAND SAND HILLS Forestry Service Doing Valuable Valuable Valuable able Work in Kansas and Nebraska Reclaiming the tine barren sand hills of oC oCth thi th Middle West with wih forest orest cover cover to supply timber when there Is a dearth deuth oCI of oC it I It Is IR one Out of tint the Ll more mort striking of the tho Important Cor forest t planting projects of the HIP forest S service I Ct Four Pour of tho the national forests have o been established t hed In tho the nonagricultural non non tural r. r with wih tho tIne express purpose if or a n on cia motho which will overcome ul- ul tiCs tk-H I nIl sot Ht up U object Ic lessons un for the tine of tine tho people These nrc the tine Ire the Dismal river and th the North Platte Plate reserves In In iii Nebraska ninth and the Garden Gardn City reserve In tin Kansas anc The Nebraska reserves have havI responded respond respond- ed cd so well ivell wel to careful treatment that hundreds s of thousands of seedlings have ha e been planted out mind millions more mort are being raised In lit nurseries for fOl use In II o other est reserves es Titus Thus for the tine first planting on the Garden Gardemn City r re serve Just completed most moat of the lie tree were taken from romin the nurseries In tin th Dismal river cr reserve l Th The Kansas reserve resene lies les In iii a n region of or scattered barren banen sand hll lulls hills Inter laced with prairie wih on which gra- gra thrives well ivell wel enough to support hiv Ihl stock The orl origin ln of oC these his hills In ii I II Itself Interesting reminds on ont one In iii a wa isa way of that of oC the tire sand Ran dunes unes which en en- en from froni the tine sea upon tIme the til fertile I fields tells of western France nn and laid fertie them therm ast waste In both cases the tine wind has hus been hen the lie enem enemy of or the time soil for or In France wind drove drol the tIme sand sant of Cf tho time seashore inland and In the th Middle Western estern re rc- rc gion Ion of oC our own country wind drove eastward time the th sand ane which the Arkansas 10 0 river haiti had tarried carried down In lii Hoods and afterwards exposed el to dr dry The sand hills his were formed long IonS ago an and tho tine action acton of or the tl wind is ago now largely checked b the by spread of the tho carpet of gra grass s. s which binds the lie sand saud wherever where there then Is enough moisture sane to encourage It I. I The FIne semi arid conditions of ot the tine region regIon re re- re gion gIon necessarily restrict the tIne selection of or trees Right flight choice of species the crux of forest planting generally Is If here especially decisive By Dy Its Is al aid together with wih right planting m methods and amid right care arc of tho the plantation a treeless region one therefore In which wood is a scarce and ond a highly valuable commodity can be bc ma made e to produce useful woods and amid at nt a n cost so slight ht as os to satisfy good business Judgment sl Thus on a light sandy surface whose only cover Is wild wid grass and weeds a merchantable forest Is crop to be lie grown In addition to the time general generl de de- de- de monad mand for or wood there will wil be be a special demand In connection with the Garden Gorden wih CI City Irrl Irrigation aton project project which Is within with with- in a few tew miles of oC the mies Garden r ro- ro I serve Honey locust Osage oran orange Russian mulberry red ce cedar ar and amid ant Western eltern yellow yel- yel clow cl low ow pine are arc thi th the trees used In the lie new project of oC which 61 came from rom the government o nursery near Halsey Neb Nob The planting this season progressed un under un- un der hl highly favorable conditions as al re- re and amid ant tho physical condition condi condi- tion tOI of the tine soil and at tnt the lie expiration contI 1 of oC six and one half lays days thirteen men had completed the task at a total cost coat j exclusive of the tr trees es of 8 per acre are x t Ince was built about the thc three three- fourths of a n section In which the time plantIng plantIng plant plant- Ing was irnis done thou though h part of this aron remains to bo be bt planted next season Thu wa was to exclude stock To exclude prairie fires a lire fire guard was ploughed about the lie plantation |