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Throughout the year co-operation was effected with several outside agencies. 

 The Department of Parasitology, Ontario Research Foundation, maintained a research 

 group at the Wildlife Research Station in Algonquin Park. Several graduate students 

 from the University of Toronto also worked there. The Station was made available 

 to the University for a two weeks field course in September. 



Statistics 



In 1948 the Division decided to make greater use of the rapidly expanding 

 science of statistics as standard practice in order to improve the design of its 

 experiments. 



The work is under the direction of Dr. D. B. DeLury on a consultancy basis, 

 assisted by L. M. Morrison, a full-time Department employee, with respect to both 

 initiation and implementation of projects. 



The heaviest project of the year 1950-51 related to the compilation of volume 

 tables for Southern Ontario hardwoods, to which reference is made elsewhere in this 

 report under the heading of "Forest Growth." 



A second major project was the analysis of an experiment relating to a study 

 of the effect of seed pelleting on tree seed germination. Reference is made to the 

 pelleting study elsewhere in this report under the heading of "Seed Treatment." 



An experiment was statistically designed for the Division of Reforestation to 

 study methods of transplanting tree seedlings from nursery beds. 



A statistical design was developed to study the effect of fertilizers on combating 

 "damping-off"' fungi in red pine seedlings in nursery beds. 



A design was provided for a study of the condition in which forest areas are 

 left after cutting in the Cochrane-Kapuskasing area. 



The application of statistical design and analysis to the research projects 

 of the Division has again proven to be valuable. 





