SUMMARY BY TREATMENTS 

 ALL DISTRICTS 



Area in Acres 

 Regular Junior 



Treatment Program Rangers''' 



Site preparation for 

 natural regeneration 



Scarification (seed-trees) 3,592 



Scarification (cone scatter) 3,203 



Slash scattering 



Manual scarification 



Prescribed burning 97 



Brush Control 



Aerial spi'aying 5,338 



Gi'ound spraying 810 



Modified cutting 923 

 Tending 



Cleaning 7,279 



Thinning 1,895 



Pruning 2,717 



Improvement cutting 42 



Cutting 186 



Cull tree removal 5,877 



Girdling 520 



Deer yard improvement 664 



TOTAL 33,143 2,394 



Reform 

 Institutions'^' 



Total 



48 

 160 



17 



2,077 



84 



3,592 

 3,203 



48 

 160 



97 



5,338 

 827 



923 



9,581 



1,903 



3,041 



42 



186 

 5,877 



520 



664 



465 36,002 



225 



240 



AGREEMENT FORESTS 



Agreement Forests are those lands that are owned by Counties, Townships or 

 Conservation Authorities and managed by the Department. Reforestation on such 

 land was initiated in 1922. During 1963-64, trees planted in 1924 were sold on 

 the stump for piling for over $7 apiece; also in Simcoe County Forest 4,632 

 construction poles were sold for over $14,000. 



The attitude by loggers, jobbers and contractors has also changed in regard 

 to plantations. Until recently the Department had the wood cut by piece-workers. 

 At present the bulk of the wood is sold on a stumpage basis; that is, the buyer 

 pays so much per cord, or per 1 ,000 board feet, or a lump sum for designated trees. 



In a co-operative project between the Ontario Department of Lands and 

 Forests and the Forest Products Branch of the Canada Department of Forestry, it 

 has been found that fifty-year-old red pine, twelve inches in diameter, will produce 

 fifty per cent clear veneer from trees which were pruned when twenty years old and 

 approximately four inches in diameter. 



Over $100,000 in revenue was obtained from selling products from Agreement 

 Forests, and over half of this was from plantations. 



In order to increase productivity of the forest, to provide local employment, 

 and to harvest usable products, the following activities were carried out in Agree- 

 ment Forests in various districts: — 



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