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the needles, an equally well-developed plant may be pi-educed 

 in <* broadcast- sown bed.. Labour and material ousts are in- 

 creased due to the additional area reauired, thus it vtowld 

 sesii that unless especially large well-developed necdlings 

 are required, that broadcasting is better suited to ordinary 

 purposes. 



Seed is either spring or fall eovra. 



Here again there is a marked preference in our latitudes. 

 Seed scvm in Oetober, and given the sane treatment, germinates 

 more evenly and earlier than does spring sowing. Also, the 

 season?! division of hie duties aids the forester, who can 

 give the seeding more attention in the fall as the pressure 

 of work ic not as great as in --iay. The early germination 

 Icngthene the growing season, said allows the cotyledons to 

 lose their seed eapa before the return of the sparrows, finches 



A other migratory seed-eaters, all sworn enemies of the 

 forest nursery. As the soil is not disturbed, the moisture 

 froTa snow and early spring raine is retained in the ground 

 much tetter th -\n in the case of spring sowing, thus decreasing 

 the watering charges. 



Before sowing, beds are thoroughly 



danped with a Tiinimufn penetration of five inches. The seed 

 ia then hand-broadcasted in the ratio of three-ouarters of a 

 pound of cleaned seed to one hundred square feet. Such a 



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