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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The following table shows the number and percentage of trees of 

 each species planted: 



Species planted, seedlings and trcmsplanis. 



A total of 5,946.55 acres were planted during- the year with conifers 

 at an average cost per acre of $10.73 and a total of 227.51 acres with 

 hardwoods at an average cost per acre of $19.54. The minimum cost 

 per acre was $4.19, on the Crater National Forest. The average 

 cost of hardwood planting was higher than the cost of coniferous 

 planting, because hardwood planting was done everywhere on a small 

 scale. The handling of the hardwood stock is much more expensive 

 on account of its bulk. 



Nurseries. — The annual capacity of the nurseries remained sub- 

 stantially the same as last year. That of the Halsey Nursery, in 

 Nebraska, w^as increased to raise material for distribution among 

 settlers of the Kinkaid district, as provided for under the agricultural 

 appropriation act of March 4, 1911. The present supply of stock 

 at each nursery is shown below : 



Nursery. 



Boulder .... 



Savenac 



Trapper Creek.. 



Dakota 



Monument 



Halsey 



Garden Oity 



Animas. -- 



Port Bayard... 



Gallinas 



Prye Canyon... 

 Rocky Bayou... 



Uinta 



Wasatch 



Pocatello 



Cottonwood-. - 



Long Gulch 



Pine 



Flowers 



Poorman 



Pilgrim Creek.. 

 Converse Plats. 



Los Prietos 



Wind River 



Silverton 



Page Creek 



others 



Total. 



Forest. 



Helena 



Lolo 



Bitterroot 



Dakota 



Pike 



Nebraska 



Kansas 



San Juan 



Gila 



Pecos 



Crook 



Florida.-- 



Uinta 



Wasatch 



Pocatello 



Boise 



do 



do 



Sawtooth 



Fayette 



Shasta 



Angeles 



Santa Barbara. 



Columbia 



Snoqualmie 



Siskiyou 



Seedlings. 



,647,370 



,902,800 



2,i0,000 



101,500 



,239,000 



,787,648 



849,050 



53,250 



309,000 



123,000 



200,000 



8,000 



,548,600 



,357,000 



,289,150 



62,000 



280,410 



23,300 



115,500 



2,500 



485,000 



61,100 



2,000,000 

 620,000 



72,428 

 905,767 



36,293,373 



Transplants. 



704,980 



3,086,300 



332,780 



292,000 



833,000 



936,222 



54,000 



21,296 



83,700 



101,000 



1,500 



547,000 



609,900 



53,750 



490 

 4,600 

 3,300 



392,576 

 38,200 



683,200 



225,000 



41,973 



18,125 



9,064,892 



The average cost of seedlings was $2.50 per thousand, and of trans- 

 raised for experimental purposes, which is high. At some of the large 

 plants $6. This cost is increased by the inclusion of the cost of stock 



