Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-09-29
IN INTERESTS OF FORESTRY
How the Government Gives Valuable
Practical Assistance to Tree
Planters.

Planters.
Inc department of agriculture
through the bureau of forestry gives
practical assistance to landowners In
establishing commercial forest planta-
tons, shelterbelts, windbreaks, and
snowbreaks, and in retaining 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 its 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-
lions 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-
fetal extension of forest growth in re-
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 n
preliminary examination of the appli-
cants land in order to determine the adj
visibility Of forest planting upon it, In
localities where the needed acquaint-
ance with local conditions is possessed
by the bureau, the preliminary examina-
ton will not be necessary. For small
areas where neither prolonged study
nor the services of assistants are re.
quired, the agent making the examina.
ton will, when planting is advisable,
prepare planting plan and submit it
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. If, as result of the
preliminary examination, the prepare.
tion of detailed planting plan is rec.
commended, and the owner so desires
the bureau of forestry will, as soon as
practicable, undertake to prepare such
plan.
planting plan contains full and com.
prehensive instructions for the neces
sary forest planting upon the area ex.
amined, based upon a thorough study
of its needs and possibilities. 1t emu
merates the proper species to plant upon
each particular planting site. gives in.
structions for the preparation of the
| ground and for the spacing and setting
of the young trees, shows by diagram:
the arrangement of the different spe
cies when more than one is advised, ant
conveys information relative to procur
ing or producing the seed and youns
trees. A planting plan for a larg,
tract or for an area possessing great va
riations in topography and altitude /,
accompanied by sketch map o
the area studied. In addition t.
the instructions for establishing tn,
forest plantation, the planting plaI
outlines the cultural and pro
tective measures necessary to insure tn,
maturing of a profitable forest crop. =
copy Of the complete planting plan, will
all essential measurements maps an,
other data, is sent to the owner. Tn,
bureau does not in any case furnish la
Dor, seeds or nursery stock needed TO
the execution Of a planting plan.
Persons desiring the assistance of tn,
bureau Of forestry as outlined SHOULD
make application to the forester of tn,
department of agriculture, by letle
specifying the exact location, state
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 ar,
not likely to receive attention before tn
following spring on account of the diff
ficulty of carrying on field work in thu
winter.