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PICTURED IS TREE FARMER LEO BIRD (center) in February of 1991 explaining the benefits of a thirteen-year-old windbreak on his Rooks County farm northwest of Stockton to KSU foresters Bill Louchs of Manhattan and Jim Strine of Hays. Bird was an authority on trees in west-central Kansas, planted numerous varieties, and even started his trees through stratification, which is the collecting and burying of nuts to grow in his nursery, where they would develop into seedlings for transplanting on his farm.
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