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north-west aspect. The plants used were 2-year 2-year Scots pine 

 with a slight mixture of birch on the higher ground, and on the 

 lower reaches Norway spruce, Sitka spruce, and a few Douglas 

 fir. The plants were all notch-planted, and those put in in the 

 spring have done best on the whole. Black game were pretty 

 severe on the Scots pine at first, but after using a mixture of 

 archangel tar and tallow, this trouble was got over. The trees 

 that were disbudded took on rather a bushy appearance, but in 

 the course of the fourth and fifth years they regained their normal 

 shape. A judicious use of the pruning knife at this stage was a 

 great help to them in this direction. 



Sitka spruce was rather troublesome at first owing to its 

 leading shoot being nipped back by the early frosts, but once it 

 got about 3 feet above the ground line it quite left the common 

 spruce behind. Douglas fir has not done so well. This area 

 was fully stocked in the spring of the present year, and is now 

 doing well. Very little beating up was necessary after using 

 the home nursery plants, and the whole operation cost about 

 ;^7, los, per acre. The notch system of planting was the only 

 practical one in the circumstances, and it answered quite well. 



Geo. Mowat. 



Employment in Forestry for Women and 

 Disabled Soldiers. 



The Council has issued the following circular, copies of which 

 may be obtained on application to the Secretary : — 



" A committee of the Council has for some time been co- 

 operating with the Scottish Committee on Women's Employ- 

 ment in securing employment for women whose ordinary 

 occupations have been interfered with by the war, and already 

 a considerable number of women have been suitably placed 

 on estates in various districts throughout the country. En- 

 couraged by the success which has so far attended the 

 committee's efforts, the Council has now decided that the 

 committee should also try to find light v/ork for soldiers who, 

 owing to partial disablement, are unable to undertake work 

 of a heavy nature. The work which men who have lost an 

 arm or a leg could do would naturally be somewhat limited 

 in variety, but many other kinds of partial disablement would 

 not present such difficulties, and there are many forms of light 



