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No. 5, also north of the road, is a pure Scotch pine plantation on 

 very sour, dry, turfy, raw humus, showing this pine successful, even 

 under this coildition. 



No. 6, on the opposite side of the road, is a plantation of Scotch pine, 

 white pine, and Norway spruce, on somewhat wet ground (condition 

 lo) . Here the spruce, as well as both pines, are successful. 



No. 7, on the same side, but farther away from the road, in the so- 

 called Huntington clearing, was made under conditions similar to No. 3, 

 except that the sod was not as heavy. 



No. 8, on the north side of the road, separated from it by a screen 

 of untouched timber, represents the treatment which was to be given 

 all logging areas, namely, removal of the hardwoods, except leaving 

 young thrifty growth, preferably in groups, burning off brush and 

 planting with conifers, especially white pine and Norway spruce. A 

 few blue spruce also show their adaptation to surroundings. 



On the opposite side of the road a similar logging area was brush 

 burned, but not planted, and shows what becomes of the area treated 

 in that fashion. 



The other plantings are around Axton. No. 9, to the east, is planted 

 on sandy knolls with Scotch pine, a complete success, the pine now in 

 its eighteenth year, bearing cones, and, indeed, naturally seeding. 



No. 10, along the road to Stony Creek bridge, underplanting a young 

 mixed growth of aspen and birch, a fire area, perhaps 15 to 20 years 

 old, with slight opening up ; shows that Scotch pine in fresh sand and 

 the humid climate can even be used for this purpose — an entire success ! 



No. II, east of Stony Creek bridge, the first plantation made, in 1899, 

 into a slash grown up to aspen, without any preparation whatsoever, 

 is perhaps the most successful, the two pines and spruce vying with 

 each other to take first place, but excelled by the European larch. 

 Pscudotsiiga for indetermined reasons has only held on to life without 

 satisfactory growth. The same may be said of Abies concolor, although 

 lately some specimens have taken on new life. Rabbits may have held 

 back these two species. 



No. 12, adjoining, was made on similar area, but after burning the 

 slash, as a consequence of which raspberry threatened to choke out the 

 trees. A fair number, however, survived. 



No. 13. located on so-called Driving Camp Hill, adjoining to and 

 partly under old untouched broad-leaf timber. 



No. 14, located west of Axton, across Axton brook, was made in a 

 10 to 15 year old dense stand of birch and aspen, fire area, after open- 

 ing lanes, and also after general thinning. The openings were not 

 wide enough and the conifers were too much shaded for thrifty growth. 



