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Excerpt from Thirty-One-Year Results in Growing Shelterbelts on the Northern Great Plains In 1896 there appeared in the Department of Agriculture Year book an article by Charles A. Keffer entitled Tree Planting in the Western Plains If the recommendations offered in this article had been followed, the percentage of later failures would not have been so great as it was. Experimental tree plantings on both irrigated and nonirrigated land were made at the United States Belle Fourche Field Station, Italic figures in parentheses refer to Literature Cited, p. 55. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.