The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1905-12-07
IMINrEREsrs OF FORESTRY
how the Government Gives valuable
Practical Assistance to Tree
Planters.


The department of agriculture
through the bureau OF forestry gives
practical assistance to landowners In
establishing commercial forest planta.
lions, shelterbelts. wiidbrcaks. and
snowbreaks, and in reclaiming shifting
sands and other waste lands by forest
planting In connection with this work
information Will be given. when posi-
BILE, 20 Interested communities through
the means OF public meetings.
The purpose of tho bureau in It's co.
operation in forest planting, the plan
cot which has been followed continuously
since July 8, 1899, Is 20 establish IN suit
q he localities examples of forest pianta
SINS Of the highest possible usefulness
md value to their owners. TO afford oh.
ject lessons OF correct methods of for
est planting, and to encourage the arti.
! fetal extension of forest growth in re
gions where the public welfare demands
greater forest area.
This offer does not include the prep
aratlon of plans for landscape garden
ing or decorative tree planting of any
kind, since such work is entirely out
side the province of the bureau.
The assistance rendered is usually
embodied In planting plan After an
/ application for assistance In forest
planting has been approved. an agent OF
the bureau is usually sent to make a
preliminary examination OF the appll-
cant's land In order TO determine the ad.
visibility of forest planting upon It, In
localities where the needed acquaint
ance with local conditions is possessed
by the bureau, the preliminary examiral
I ton will not be necessary For small
areas where neither prolonged study
nor the services of assistants are re
quired, the agent making the examine
ton will. when planting is advisal
prepare planting plan and submit Il,
TO the owner before leaving the ground
or advice will be sent from Washington
For larger areas, requiring prolonged
study or the services of assistants, or
both. the results Of the preliminary ex
animation Will be embodied In the re-
port to the owner. II, as n result OF the
preliminary examination. the prepare
ton Of detailed planting plan is rec
commended. and the owner SO desires.
the bureau Of forestry WILL as soon a.
practicable, undertake to prepare such
plan.
II A planting plan contains full and com
prehensive instructions for the neces
sary forest planting upon the area ex
amined. based upon n thorough study
| Of its needs and possibilities. It emu
merates the proper species TO plant upoa
each particular planting site. gives in
structions for the preparation Of the
ground and for the spacing and settini
OF the Young trees shows nv DIAGRAM
the arrangement of the different spe
cies when more than one is advised ane
conveys information relative to procur
ing or producing the seed and ycunF
trees. A planting plan for q large
irStact or for an area possessing great VA
~ htions Ia topography and altitude Is
II bccmpanied by a skctch map OF
N Ahe area studied In addition "a
n -Ihe Instructions for establishing the
forest plantation. the planning plan
HLltlines the cultural aud r.o
WiiNt ilstatIsn Htfefatit W lhhult lili
atrrins Of a Profitable forest crop, \
Topy of the conplote planting plan, with
an essential measurements. maps an,
;hcr data, is seat = the owrcr III.
llureau docs rot in any case furnish Ia
, oor seeds, or nursery s,ock reeGed FOR
I the execution OF pla.iinE plan
Pcraons desiring N assistance Of tn
.urean OF forestry as oatlired should
make application 20 The forester of th'
department. of agriculture. by letter
} pcclfylng the exact location, state
: ounty. township. range and section o,
, hich the planting Is contemplated. tn
! acreage to be planted, and the time the.
esire to begin planting. Application
received during the fall and winter ar.
/, OF likely to receive attention before IA
GLOWING spring on account Of the d"
? iculty of carrying on field work in th'
winter.