The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-07-27
IN INTERESTS or FORESTRY
How the Government Gives Valuable.
Practical Assistance to Tree
Planters.

through the bureau Of forestry gives
practical assistance to landowners in
establishing commercial forest planta-
tions, shelterbelts, windbreaks, 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, to interested communities through
the means Of public meetings.
The purpose Of the bureau in It's CO.
operation In forest planting, the plan
Of which has been followed continuously
since July 8, 1899, is to establish in suit
able localities examples of forest planta-
tions of the highest possible usefulness
and value to their owners. to afford OBJ
ject lessons of correct methods of for
est planting. and to encourage the arti-
ficial extension of forest growth in re-
gions where the public welfare demands
q greater forest area.
This offer does not include the prep
aration 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 q
preliminary examination of the appli-
cant's land in order to determine the ad-
visibility Of forest planting upon It. In
| localities xx,hn ka .
ance with local conditions Is possessed
by the bureau, the preliminary examina-
tion 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 advisable
prepare planting plan and submit II
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, OF
both, the results of the preliminary ex'
animation will be embodied in the re.
port to the owner II, as result of the
preliminary examination, the prepara
ton Of a detailed planting plan is rec
commended, and the owner SO desires
the bureau of forestry will. as soon a.
practicable, undertake to prepare suct
a plan.
A planting plan contains full and com
prehensive instructions for the neces
sary forest planting upon the area ex
amined. based upon thorough stud!
Of its needs and possibilities. 1t emu
merates the proper species to plant upo:
each particular planting site, gives In
structions for the preparation Of tn,
ground and for the spacing and settinl
OF the young trees, shows by diagram
the arrangement of the different spe
cies when more than one Is advised, an,
conveys information relative to procur
ing or producing the seed and youn
trees. A planting plan for q larg
tract or for an area possessing great va
riations in topography and altitude
accompanied by sketch map O
the area studied. In addition I
the instructions for establishing tn
forest plantation, the planting pla
outlines the cultural and pre-
tective measures necessary to insure tn
maturing of profitable forest crop.
copy Of the complete planting plan, wit
all essential measurements, maps an
; other data, is sent to the owner. Th
; bureau does not in any case furnish ls
Dor, seeds, or nursery stock needed fo
the execution Of planting plan.
Persons desiring the assistance of tn
bureau of forestry as outlined shoul
make application to the forester of tn
department of agriculture, by lette
specifying the exact location, stat
county, township range and section o
which the planting is contemplated, tn
acreage to be planted, and the time the
desire to begin planting. Application
received during the fall and winter al
not likely to receive attention before th
following spring on account Of the di
fculty of carrying on field work In th
winter.