An experiment of operational proportions was undertaken in co-operation 

 with a timber licensee in the Englehart Management Unit. 



The stand selected was pure jack pine on sand, open enough to allow 

 mechanical scarification prior to the cut. It was cut for poles and saw logs. 



By terms of the contract, the operator agreed to prepare the seed bed 

 by scarification. Two methods, mechanical and hand, were carried out either 

 before or after cutting. In some cases this was supplemented by lopping and 

 scattering cone-bearing slash. 



The pre- cut stand tally, plot descriptions and regeneration counts were 

 completed by early summer and the cutting by late fall. 



The costs of the extra work to encourage regeneration have already been 

 computed on a per acre and M. Fbm. basis. 



Regeneration counts and collection of stand composition data will continue 

 until either positive or negative results are established. 

 Spruce Regeneration 



Scarification plots, established in mixed stands on well drained sites 

 were re-examined. These plots were laid out in 1953 to study the effects upon 

 spruce regeneration of a seed bed, prepared by scarification. 

 Artificial Regeneration 



Two experiments were carried out in fall planting of spruce. The first 

 was to study the results of planting open fields to: (a) alternate rows of 2-0 white 

 and black spruce, and (b) alternate rows of 2-2 white and black spruce. 



The second was to test the possibility of using 2-0 stock for underplanting. 

 For this purpose 1, 250 seedlings were hand planted under a young stand of aspen 

 and white birch on clay. 



A total of 15, 000 seedlings were planted, mosUy by machine. 



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