The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 25, 1935, Page 8

T Shelterbelt Harks Back to Da ay When Forests Covered Prairie Forester Directing Work From) Bismarck Describes Aims | and Accomplishments | Tells Why Reforestation Will Make Great Plains Better | Place to Live in C. HUTCHINSON S. Forestry Service Nurseryman | Centuries ago, before the white man and the buffalo roamed the prairies of the Great Plains, great forests cov- 1| Recent finds indicate} ered this area. that this area resembled the great) tropical forests of the present day. Huge prehistoric animals lived in the thick undergrowth and in the streams and lakes while huge trees both o! the soft and hardwood types lived t be hundreds of years old, defying the} heat, winds and storms of that age ‘The ice age, changing climatic con- ditions aceompanied by floods, slow- ly changed the landscape of this sec- tion and left in its stead the vast prairies as we know them today. Not so long ago this region was richly covered with grass and dotted here and there with lakes and streams. These, along with the rich fertile earth beneath the sod, attracted the pioneers to this section. They came in great numbers, bringing with them tree, seeds which in many instances they planted about their homesteads. They tilled the soils, drained the lakes and sloughs and for a time prospered from the land. Gradually but surely these changing conditions brought about a decrease in the rainfall and lowered the water levels on the lands. Those who have lived in this sec- tion during the past decade have seen these great changes and have wit- Harken ere you harm me. ile “To the Wayfarer—” | | Ye who pass by and would raise your hand against me 1 am the heat of your hearth on the cold winter nights, oN 'Bank of France in Third Des- The friendly shade screening you from the summer sun, | My fruits are refreshing draughts, Quenching your thirst as you journey on, ‘The board of your table, ‘The bed on which you lie, I am the beam that holds your house, || with devaluation, Within one month And the timber that builds your boat 1 am the handle of your hoe, The door of your homestead, The wood of your cradle, And the shell of your coffin. I am the bread of kindness and the flower of beauty. Ye who pass by. listen to my quire 6,000 acres and five million trees) and shrubs. West of the belt it is in- tended to plant 1,400 acres of cotton- woods which will require nearly 2,- 100.000 trees, To aid in the production of this vast amount of stock the forest serv- ice during the spring of 1935 estab- | lished three nurseries within the! state. established at Enderlin, N. D., one of | 49 acres at Valley City and one of, 32.25 acres at Mandan and Bismarck. Plantings were made in all of these nurseries in the early spring and some of the stock raised by them dur- ing the past summer will be pulled to be planted in the belt this coming} spring. In a recent count it was revealed that | at Enderlin nursery there were 554,600 green ash, 348,600 caragana, 7,187! Russian olive and 636,200 American | elm. At Valley City there were 392.- | 600 Chinese elm, 550,300 green ash, | 964,600 caragana and 126,800 choke cherry. At Mandan on five and one- half acres they have raised 20,200 Russian olive, 1,398,000 green ash and 141,800 Chinese elm. At Bismarck on 32.75 acres they have 645.600 Chinese One nursery of 20 acres was; & nessed the years of drouth accom-|¢jm. 2,443,000 green ash, 547,400 car-| panied by the blinding dust storms) aoana ‘and 1,228,000 American elm, took something away from Michigan, |besides two straight in a row. The Gophers’ unfi run of 17 and the erosion of the soil. They; have come to realize that a remedy for | these conditions must be found if they continue to live and prosper in} this section. To better and if possi- | ble eliminate these adverse conditions ; the United States iene of agriculture through the fores divi- | sion has come to their aid aud is ati present working on a great shelter-| belt project for this section. | Runs Through 5 States The Great Plains shelterbelt pro- ject as it will be known will run through five states starting at the Canadian border in North Dakota and! extending into the panhandle coun-, try of Texas. The belt, which is the | largest undertaking of its kind in the world, will be 100 miles wide and a thousand miles long. It will pass through the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, | Oklahoma and Texas. ‘There are now in sections of the drouth area a number of windbreaks, some of them 50 years old. These have demonstrated their usefulness | for many years, and in many in- stances farmer owners of these wind- | breaks have gathered good crops on} the lee side of them despite prevail- ing dry conditions. It is roughly e: timated that of the trees planted in| the drouth areas of the middle west | including windbreak, shade tree and general planting about 50 per cent) have survived. With this information | at hand and with greater care in the ection of species, such plantings will increase considerably the num- ber of trees that will thrive and live. The forest service experts have se-| ctired the best information possible to | enable them to determine the best | trees to plant under different soil, | wind and rainfall conditions. Various trees and shrubs that are being used in the shelter belt plant- ings will be approximately as follows: On the outside rows will be planted | caragana, choke cherry, haw, buffalo berry, sumac, willows and lilacs. Wide Variety of Trees t The rows next to the outside rows will comprise Russian olive, plum, willows, Russian mulberry, osage orange and apricot. The rows half way between the outside rows and the | | center row will comprise willows, red ; cedar, Austrian pine, Chinese oe vitae and Arizona cypress. The rows next to the center rows | will comprise green ash, American! elm, Chinese elm, burr oak, hack-| berry, willows, honey locust, black Texan walnut, black locust, china- berry and pecan. The center rows will be composed of cottonwood, wil- low and black locust. The shelterbelt strips will be| 10 rods wide and of undeter- mined length. In accordance with standards adopted these will occupy 20 acres in each section of 640 acres. | The function of the shelterbelt pro- ject is to establish tree shelterbelts on cultivable land of the relatively treeless middle west in such a way as to reduce the destructive effects of wind; thus conserving moisture, stabilizing the productiveness of the land, developing game and recreation- | al resources and making the country- | side a better place in which to live. , These are benefits that have not only a regional but a national significance. More Extensive Plantings In North Dakota as well as the other states in the belt, the first plantings were made during the past, year and @ program is now under way | for more extensive planting during) the coming year. To give an idea of | the vastness of this undertaking some | facts and figures concerning only the | work that has and is being done in| North Dakota alone will be given. During the past year ending July 1,) 1935, there was completed 38.1 miles of shelterbelt this 103,200 green ash, 82,400 American elm, 1,000 rural hedgewood, 35,000 ae caragana, 8,000 lilac, 30,000 cot- This 38.1 miles of planting wat placed on 762.03 acres of land scat- tered throughout the belt in North Dakota. Besides this planting that or. replacement and care on 1935 strip | additional bids are being sent out for | haw, Growth Astounding It might be of interest to know that j jat the Mandan nursery on Sept. 1,/ there were Chinese elm that’ meas: ured 49 inches in height and of % inch caliper. These trees were plant- | led from seed on May 20. The seed| having been produced this spring. Besides being of great benefit to the middle west as a permanent) project the shelierbelt is at present aiding materially in reducing the re- | Lief rolls of this section by employing a large number of men, all of whom.! with the exception of the technical | jpersonnel, are being taking from the | relief rolls. During this year they expect to| utilize 168 man months of shelterbelt | ¢ assistants and junior foremen, 36 man } months on surveys, 1,224 man months en strip planting, 288 man months on | |farnfstead plantings, 488 man months plantings, 60 man months on water } conservation, 252 man months on fence construction, 492 man months | on improvement of old woodlots, 924! man months on forest nursery pro- tion, 66 man months in office and | warehouse, making a total of 3,492} ‘man months or 291 man years. To! make this possible the North Dakota | | division has been allotted some $165,- | '000 from the Works Progress admin- | istration to carry on the work during the year. At the present time lands are being | acquired by lease for the coming spring's strip planting as well as the cottonwood farmstead plantings and increased acreage for the nurseries. |Crews are now busy in the various nurseries making fall plantings and collecting seeds from all of the desir- able trees and shrubs that grow in! the state. At the Bismarck-Mandan nurseries fourteen species of seeds have been collected. They are dog- wood, caragana, Russian olive, buffa- lo berry, June berry, aromatic sumac, choke cherry, plum, honeysuckle, red | black haw! sliverberry, hack- | berry and burr oak. “Typical of CCC”, | Spats and All | as “most typical” ‘of | the 600,000 tads in CCC camps ‘Designated throughout the country, Luti Lip New York City in gray spats aud speech in a Young America symposium. to spite ct his admis sion that he hasn't chopped brucs. | planted trees ur oullt toads in oe | year’s service at Cump Pulaski, Ridgeway thought he was “typ | cal” of the CCC mene raile | 1931 | He was getting $13,000 flat... prayer; harm me not. | note found on one of the trees of the park at Seville, Spain.) More Sports i Gophers Shatter Big Ten Records \Minnesota Holds Longest Con- secutive Win Streak; Race Ends in Tie (0, Nov. 25.()—Hitting the completed: Minnesota. of the conference with Ohio State. straight victo! topped Michigan's 16 in a row which stretched from a 0-0 tie with Michigan State in 1931 to the 0-0 tic with Minnesota in 1933, while the string of 24 games without defeat eclipsed Michigan's 21 game zetech without from a 7-20 defeat by Ohio State in until the Wolverines lost to n State in 1934, Mich It honor created only by general ac- ceptance since the conference awards no championship in football. It was Chio’s first title since 1920. There was only one point after touchdown di ion during the sea- on, Chicago’@ 7-6 victory over Ilinois Saturday—a game in which Jay Ber- wanger of the Maroons completed a spectacular gridiron career in which he gained one mi!> and 67 yards from scrimmage in three years. He gained five times as many yards as the en- tire Illini backfield. Minnesota scored 20 touchdowns jand 14 extra points to Ohio's 18 i touchdowns and.12 points--after in five games. Illinois scored only one {touchdown all season. Purdue scored the only safeties of the season, one} for Wisconsin and one for Minnesota. Big Ten teams played 28 games out of the conference, winning 19 of them. Wisconsin and Ohio State lost to Notre Dame and Northwestern handed the Irish their only defeat of the season. Included in the Big Ten victim list were Fordham, Southern California, Tulane, Nebraska, Colgate. | Penn and Columbia. Sports Round. s Round Up| By EDDIE BRIETZ New York — @P) — It is the smart thing these days to give your football coach a new long term contract on the eve of the big game Duke did it, and Wallace Wade gave North Carolina 100,000 headaches. . . . Stanford did it and Tiny Thorn- hill knocked off California just like that... . Red Blaik of Dart- meuth is the only ene who missed out, ... But you'll have to forgive Red this time, considering what he was up against. . . . Cornell might give the idea a thrill by signing up Gil Dobie for life. Wade's new contract puts him at the head of the second flight. . Now he draws between $15,000 and $20,000. . Which puts him right on the \heels of Lou Little, Slip Madigan and Pop Warner. ... They are paid $20,- 000 each and are absolute tops in football. Dozs Col. John S. Hammond, fermer Garden Hockey Boss until he lost the war to Col. John Reed Kilpatrick, now have to pay his way into the hockey games. . . . Frank Buck named his monkeys* in the pet show after New York fight managers. . . . Ouch! Sorry to isn't doing so well on the cast. . . They've had to take on Buddy Baer | as a sparring mate and resort to the old gag of offering a prize to anyone in the audience who'll stay four rounds with the champ. ... And does little Joe Gould supervise the chal- lengers? ... California writers say Southern Methodist is the sweetest ball club to hit the coast since Notre Dame beat Southern California 27-0. ... Praise indeed. ... John- ny MacKorell, N. Y. Giant quar- terback from Davidson, is a pop- per. . . . Congratulations to the editors of the Yale Daily News for their enterprise in having an extra on the Yale-Harvard game in the Press box at Cambridge 15 minutes after the game ended. Beise Takes Big Ten High-Scoring Honors Chicago, Nov. Beise, Minnesvta’s all-Big Ten full- back, has made the conference indi- j vidual scoring leadership a part on | Gopher spoils from the recent season. bear! gray fedora to deliver ® | "poise hammered over for two touch: | : downs against Wisconsin Saturday for @ total of 37 points. »Claregce (Tuffy) | Thompson, his team ma finished with 30 points. Jay Berwanger. Chicago's offense y took third with 27 points. ') sound because cf the heavy coverage | of bank notes, Premier Laval’s cabinet pots in the Big Ten season just | . in finishing at the top| a loss which went} tae fourth time in nine years | \there has been a tie for the title, an report Jimmy Braddock | 25.—()—Sheldon | [FRANC THREATENED WITH DEVALUATION perate Effort to Halt Flight of Gold i \ |_ Paris, Nov. 25.—(®)}—The Bank ‘of | France raised its rates on discounts and loans again Monday ina desper- jate effort to halt the withdrawals of |gold which re threatening the franc ine valued at approximately 2,750,- 000,000 francs—$181,500,000—has been drained from the bank's vaults. While the franc is still technically \is threatened with an overthrow, lead- \ing financial quarters to warn that a panic may arise if the drain on the \gold reserves is continued. | | Financial authorities —_ estimated | that 1,000,000,000 francs worth of gold had been wthdrawn since Nov. 14. The bank's discount rate was raised to 6 per cent from 5 per cent. It was the third such boost in the last 19 days. The interest rate on treasury bonds also was raised to 6 per cent from 5 effective Tuesday, in an effort to maintain the ‘treasury’s credit. For- merly the treasury bond rate was ei per cent. Although gole gold bullion is called 1000; fine, it is actually only 999.999 fine. Characters made fumous by Mark Twain were portrayed In a tableaux in New York. Left to right: Rhoda Barney as Joan of Arc; Pamela Cottii ATHENS WELCOMES KING GEORGE BACK Friendly Crowd Surrounding Monarch Beaten Back by. Cavalry Charge (Copyright, 1935, Associated Press) Nias Nov, 25.—King George If made a triumphant return to Athens. Monday, carried on the shoulders of © at the Twain centennial dinner as Becky Thatcher; Deforest Rudd as Huckleberry Finn; Howard Kyle as Mark Twain; Billy Wallace as Tom Sawyer; Margaret Wal- a the Pauper and Marcia Ourant as Prince. (Associated Press Photo) a friendly crowd which, swept out of control in its enthusiasm for the re- called monarch, was charged by cav- alry with drawn sabres. Ne One person was reported wounded in the jostling which signalled the end of the king’s 12-year from the throne and the completioon of his. journey back from London. “who goes there?” the king was challenged. “The hal the Hellenes,” he re- The monarch down from his car at the city entrance and the wildly enthusiastic crowd broke through police lines to catch him up, shoulder high, bite the cavalry charge restored order. A procession then formed and mov- ed to the cathedral for a solemn te deum mass, conducted by the arche bishop of Athens, Monsignor Cryso- stome. After the cathedral service, the monarch drove to the royal palace to resume the throne he abdicated in 1923, when he was ordered into exile at the demand of army and navy of~ ficers. | 1 YEAR! CONSECUTIVE _ of the Wm. 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