STATE OF MISSOURI 
DEPARTMENT       OF FORESTRY 
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 
COLUMBIA, MO. 
 
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Forester 
 
RICK DUNLAP 
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uc "KAW"                           August 26, 1930 
Aldo Leopold 
421 'hemistry 3uilding 
Madison, Wisconsin 
Dear Mr. Leopold: 
In answer to your circular letter of August 
12 I am glad to submit to you the fdllowing information  .ider 
each of the five paragraphs into which you divide your ques- 
tions. 
(1,2) About 60 years ago Lissouri farmers 
planted a considerable number of white pine and N~orway spruce 
trees as scattered individuals in their front yards. I know 
of ut 4 shelter belts now standing in Lissouri, these run- 
ing from 10 to 40 years of age. From this you will see that 
there never has been with us a era of shelter belt planting. 
(3) This department is now encourajig the 
planting of shelter btlts out none of our plantings made 
during the past 3 years have yet reached a point where they 
afford any shelter. 
(4) Miseguri offers advice in the location 
and selection of lanting stock for coniferous shelter belts 
)r farms, and to a limited degree h.--  en able to furnish 
stock for such plantings. These tx-   are not furnishe. 
free but are sold at ,ifteen dollars per thousand. At this 
price our farmers feel that we are 1'actically giving them 
the trees. 
(5) This iepartment requirek sumner fallow 
for fall planting and fall plowing for spring planting. The 
groijnd to be planted must be inclosed in a stock proof fence 
and weeds must be kert down as long as may be necessary. We 
feel that a low ,rowth of grass is an advantage so long as it