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REPORT OF THE 



No. 3 



IV.— REFORESTATION 

 St. Williams 



The temporary staff was employed during the fall of 1930 until December 

 24th. On plantation trimming, and thinning, while a considerable acreage of 

 natural woodland was cleaned up. The brush from this operation was salvaged 

 to serve as winter protection of seed beds. 



All temporary hands were laid off from December 24th until January 1st, 

 1931, when married men and single men with dependants were reinstated. 

 Woodlot improvements and operations preparatory to the establishing of forest 

 plantations were continued throughout the winter, only when weather conditions 

 permitted outside work. During rough weather all temporary men were 

 suspended and the permanent staff employed on the usual winter work of painting 

 and repairing machinery, crate construction and making Carolina poplar cuttings. 



The four teams and two trucks were steadily occupied hauling logs and pole 

 wood to points of conversion into fuel wood and lumber. 



The winter of 1931 was ideal for carrying nursery stock over in perfect 

 condition. A blanket of five to six inches of snow persisted into late March, 

 after which the temperature was fairly constant and the usual severe thawing 

 and freezing typical of the spring was quite moderate. 



1. Nursery Operations. 



Nursery operations commenced on March 23rd, twelve days later than 

 last year. A few thousand trees were lifted prior to this date but the general 

 operation was not carried out until the latter part of the month. 



In addition to 745,000 deciduous species which were heeled in during the 

 fall of 1930, 425,000 poplar and willow cuttings which were made during the 

 winter, there were 5,668,000 conifers lifted in the spring of 1931, making a total 

 of 6,889,000 trees available for distribution. 



(a) Fertilizers: 



Thirty-three and one-half acres of soy beans were turned under at Station 

 No. 1, and at Station No. 2, eight acres of soy beans and twenty-three acres 

 of rye and vetch were turned under for the purpose of soil maintenance. 



Twenty-five tons of barnyard manure was applied on light soil at Station 

 No. 2, while at Station No. 1 manure and commercial fertilizer was used as per 

 record herewith. 



To November 30th, 1931: 



Sufficient compost has been prepared to meet fertilizing requisites for 1932 

 and the purchase of outside manure and commercial fertilizer will be 

 unnecessary. 



(b) Tree seed : 



With the exception of a quantity of jack pine cones collected during the 

 late fall of 1930 and the winter of 1931 very little coniferous seed was procured 



