lyS Forestry Quarterly 



The Michigan State Forest Reserve work is progressing rapid- 

 ly under the efficient management of Prof. Filibert Roth, and 

 this example is bound to produce far-reaching results in the 

 management of forest lands and the probable enlargement of the 

 State Reserve. This season there have been planted about 

 200,000 trees, all from stock grown on the reserve nursery, which 

 now contains from two to two and one-half million trees. The 

 principal species planted have been Scotch Pine and White Pine, 

 with smaller numbers of Western Yellow Pine, Norwaj' Pine, 

 and Pitch Pine ; all are two years old from the seed, non-trans- 

 plants, and in perfect condition for forest planting. 



In addition to these there were set out a number of one-year- 

 old .seedlings of Catalpa and Black Locu.st which were excellent 

 plant stock from the Reserve nursery. The object of planting 

 these two species is to determine their pos.sible utility in this 

 particular region and on the much mis-used plain lands ; it is be- 

 lieved that a fair trial of this kind could not be made by using 

 imported stock. 



Besides this planting of seedlings, forty acres were devoted to 

 planting seed of Western Yellow Pine in seed-spots. These 

 were cleared and planted by the use of a hoe, were placed ir- 

 regularly at di.stances varying from five to ten feet apart, with 

 an average of 1,000 to 1,200 .spots per acre, and required the 

 work of one man per day for each acre. 



In the nursery, seed amounting to approximately one hundred 

 pounds of Western Yellow Pine, ten pounds of White Pine, and 

 ten pounds of Red Spruce was sown, besides small amounts of 

 Sugar Pine, Cryptomaria, and Sequoia. The .seed of the 

 Western conifers, both for seed-bed and field purposes was fur- 

 nished by the U. S. Forest Service as a matter of cooperation 

 with the Michigan Forestry Commi.ssion. 



The results of these experiments, especially with the Western 

 Yellow Pine, are awaited with a great deal of interest, for this 

 pine appears to possess all the requirements necessary to make a 

 first-class forest tree on these light, sandy lands. It will also be 

 of interest to readers of the Quarterly to know that the 

 plantations of 1904 and 1905 have thus far proven perfectly 

 .satisfactory. The Scotch Pine planted in 1904 now has a height 

 up to twenty-three inches, and has wintered apparently without 

 the I0.SS of a single plant. Norway Spruce, Black Locust, and 

 Catalpa, have proven least satisfactory. The Spruce has pro- 



