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REPORT OF THE 



No. 3 



Provincial Forest Stations 



Development work continued on the two new nurseries at Port Arthur 

 and Kemptville. These nurseries will have small quantities of trees ready for 

 shipping in the spring of 1949. Additional areas have been added at St. Williams 

 and Orono nurseries, and development of these properties continues. 



Xew machinery is rapidh' being developed for the greater mechanization of 

 nurseries. Amongst the first new types to be put into oi^eration are the 

 mechanical transplanters, which are now in use at Midhurst and Orono. 



The following tables furnish details of nurser>' tree distribution. 



Table No. 1 



SCMMARV OF TkKKS DiSTRIBCTED 



(July 1, 1946 to June 30, 1947) 



Total 

 Shipments 



Conifers 



Hardwoods 



Total Trees 



Private Lands: 



Reforestation and Windbreaks. . . . 



School Children 



Semi-Public Properties 



Municipal Properties: 



Municipal Forests 



Forest Plantations 



Roads 



School Demonstration Plots 



Sundry 



Provincial Crown Lands: 



Northern Plantations 



Forests 



Ranger Plantations 



Air Services 



Nurseries 



Parks 



Highways 



Hydro Electric Power Commission 



Hospitals 



Penal Institutions 



Sundry 



Dominion Crown Lands 



Extraneous 



Totals 



4,782 

 78 



75 



50 

 47 

 16 

 25 

 11 



7 

 3 

 2 

 1 

 3 

 3 

 9 



13 



37 



5,897,379 



58,284 



98,149 



2,448,675 



365,150 



234,400 



15,805 



8,605 



379,000 



40,900 



195,200 



9,150 



12,000 



19,000 



6,200 



94,950 



381,315 



211,456 



151,325 



997,873 

 45,347 



34,416 



201,351 



88,000 



18,600 



3,380 



4,960 



75 



9,100 

 1 ,8.50 



22,7.50 

 5,200 

 3,060 

 4,200 



89,885 



58,055 

 54,488 



6,895,252 

 103,631 



132,565 



2,650,026 



453,150 



253,000 



19,185 



13,565 



379,000 

 ' 40,975 



204,300 

 11,000 

 34,750 

 24,200 

 9,260 

 99,150 



471,200 



269,511 

 205,813 



5,168 



10,626,943 



1,642,590 



12,269,533 



