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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



economy in the production of seedlings, but not so as materially to 

 iacroase the cost of this part of the work. 



The experimental character of the nursery work and the fact that 

 much of it is done under the administrative appropriations for the 

 respective Forests has requu'ed the establishment of a relatively 

 large number of nurseries, mostly of small capacity and maintained 

 by rangers in connection with other duties. The following is a com- 

 plete list, with the annual ca])acity of each nurseiy as developed up 

 to the present and the estimated stock of all ages on hand at tlie end 

 of the nscal year: 



Nursery. 



Boulder 



Savenao 



St. Regis 



Trapper Creek 



Dakota 



Cass Lake 



Monument 



Halsey 



Garden City 



Animas 



Hj^annis 



Fort Bayard 



Gallinas 



Frye Canyon 



Coconino Experiment Station. 



Rocky Bayou 



Uinta 



Wasatch 



Pocatello 



Cottonwood 



Long Gulch 



Pine 



Flowers 



Upper Jose 



Poorman 



Pilgrim Creek 



Converse Flats 



Los Prietos 



Wind River 



Silverton 



Page Creek 



Forest. 



Total. 



Helena 



Lolo 



do 



Bitterroot 



Dakota 



Minnesota 



Pike 



Nebraska 



Kansas 



San Juan 



Nebraska 



Gila 



Pecos 



Crook 



Coconino , 



Choetawhatchee. 



Uinta , 



Wasatch 



Pocatello , 



Bois? 



do 



do 



Sawtooth 



Manti 



Payette , 



Shasta 



Angeles , 



Santa Barbara. . 



Columbia 



Snoqualmie , 



Siskivou , 



Annual, 

 capacity. 



2, 



000,000 

 500, 000 



(') 



50, 000 

 200,000 

 100,000 

 700,000 

 000,00(J 

 300,000 



10,000 



10,000 

 150,000 

 100,000 



40,000 



10,000 



2,500 



000,000 



000,000 



000,000 



50,000 

 100,000 



50,000 

 100,000 



50,000 



10,000 

 500,000 

 200,000 



(') 



000,000 

 500,000 



50,000 



22, 702, 500 



Present stock. 



Seedlings. 



6,427,300 



3,721,400 



104,517 



291,000 



145,000 



225,000 



1,257,000 



2,215,410 



318, 200 



20,270 



190,300 



183,400 



130, 400 



41,000 



2,500 



4,3mi,000 



5,285,000 



3,285,000 



100,000 



102, 400 



10,000 



130,000 



65,000 



15,000 



388,000 



159,000 



8,300 



591,000 



410,000 



44,200 



30,208,597 



Trans- 

 plants. 



l,231,30a 



278,800 



38,000 



602,800 



378,290 



20, 410 



5,930 

 51,000 

 82,000 



14,000 



2,100 



634,500 



33,300 



13,700 



54,900 

 27,000 

 49,000 

 1,075,700 

 5,500 

 45,118 



4,643,348 



' To be discontinued. 



Since two years is the minimum age at which nursery-grown seed- 

 lings can ordinarily be planted in the field, the stock now on hand, 

 aggregating 34,851,945 plants, represents about three-fourths of the 

 capacity of the present nurseries. The enlargement of the Halsey 

 nursery, Nebraska, to a capacity of 2,000,000 plants seemed advisable 

 in order (1 ) to secure a greater return from the investment in nursery 

 equipment and from the services of the experts employed at the 

 station, without increasing the running expenses; (2) to begin the 

 production of Norway pine stock, a species which appears peculiarly 

 adapted to the western Nebraska sandhills; and (3) to provide for 

 the distribution of seedlings to settlers in accordance with the act of 

 March 4, 1911, known as the Kinkaid Act. The latter is a signifi- 

 cant step in Federal policy. The distribution of free stock to home- 

 steaders in small quantities will begin in the spring of 1912, when 

 approximately 50,000 plants will be available. The annual produc- 



