Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1907 — To Collect 50,000,000 Seeds. [ARTICLE]

To Collect 50,000,000 Seeds.

, The forest service will collect 50,000,000 seeds of forest trees in Montana. Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and California from the Douglas fir, Englemann spruce, western larch, incense cedar and yellow pine. The seeds will be used for broadcast sowing and for planting in forest service nurseries. The broadcast sowing will be experimental, to test the extent to which this method of renewing the forest in denuded lauds of the West can be used. One method of gathering the seeds is to rob squirrels’ nests. It is to be hoped that Uncle Sab will not do this without replacing the hoards of these bright-eyed little rodents with a generous amount of something "just as good to cat.”