Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — WILL PLANT A FOREST. [ARTICLE]

WILL PLANT A FOREST.

Starke County Democrat: Joseph Adams of Chicago, member of a Chicago stock yards firm, owns 4,100 acres of land in the Kankakee valley in Newton county on which he proposes to plant a forest. It is to be laid out by experts, the plans having been furnished by officials of the state and national forestry commissions and the varieties of trees tb be planted selected. Oak, elm, ash, European larch catalpa are the trees to be planted, while the maple, birch anil willow now growing on part of the land will be removed. It will be the first extensive undertaking of the kind in Indiana.