FOREST SERVICE. 



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The total amount of seed secured during the fiscal year was 75,039 

 pounds, at a total cost of $88,326.24. 



The total area reforested was 20,543 acres, of which 14,369 acres 

 were sown and 6,174 acres planted, at a cost for seed, nursery stock, 

 equipment, and labor of approximately $130,000. The average cost 

 of reforestation, both by direct seeding and planting, was $6.19 per 

 acre. The acreage reforested was, by species, as follows: 



Total area reforested, by species. 



Species. 



Western yellow pine 



Douglas fir 



Lo(lge|)ole pine 



Engeltnann spruce.. 



Sugar pine 



Western white pine. 



Species. 



Incense cedar. 

 OtiiRT conifers 

 Hardwoods... 



Total... 



Area refor- 

 ested. 



Acres. 

 43.0 

 2,106.1 

 330.0 



20,543.1 



Per 

 cent. 



0.2 



10.2 



1.6 



100.0 



The areas sown and planted were distributed as follows among the 

 different States: 



Sowing and planting, fiscal year 1912. 



During the year 14,369 acres were sown direct. Of these 14,266.5 

 acres were sown to conifers at an average cost of $4.06 per acre and 

 102.5 acres to hardwoods at an average cost of $8.68, or of $4,10 for 

 both conifers and hardwoods. The cost of sowing hardwoods was on 

 an average more than twice the cost of sowing conifers. This was 

 due chiefly to the fact that the sowing of hardwoods was on a small 

 scale. 



The planting work included 5,946.5 acres planted to conifers, at an 

 average cost of $10.75 per acre, and 227.5 acres to hardwoods, at an 

 average co.st of $19.54 per acre. Of the 5,573,147 plants used 55 per 

 cent were transplants and 45 per cent seedlings. An average of 

 900 trees to the acre was planted. Most of the stock was older than 

 two years. Experience has proved that it docs not pay to use the 

 younger age classes of nursery stock. 



