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Experimental Plantations 



Experimental plantations at Station No. 2 were extended this year, and 

 an additional Scotch pine group was established. 



EXPERIMENTAL PLANTATION AT STATION No. 2 



SCOTCH PINE GROUP 



1. Scotch Pine from Finland 2,700 



2. Scotch Pine from Finland 1 ,350 



European Larch, Swiss Alps 1,350 



3. Scotch Pine from Finland 2,000 



Rooted Poplar ! 700 



4. Scotch Pine from Jutland To be planted next year. 



European Larch, Swiss Alps 1,350 



5. Scotch Pine, German 1 ,350 



Rooted Poplar 1,350 



6. Scotch Pine from Jutland To be planted next year. 



7. Scotch Pine from Jutland To be planted next year. 



Rooted Poplar 700 



8. Scotch Pine from Sweden 1 ,350 



European Larch, Swiss 1,350 



9. Scotch Pine from Sweden 1,350 



Rooted Poplar 700 



10. Scotch Pine from Sweden 2,700 



11. Scotch Pine from Scotland 2,700 



12. Scotch Pine from Scotland 1,350 



European Larch, Swiss 1,350 



13. Scotch Pine from Scotland 1,350 



Red Pine, Ontario 1,350 



4. Woodlot Improvement. 



Plantation thinnings fell off somewhat since operations in this connection 

 were very extensive during 1930, and practically every plantation is now in 

 No. 1 condition. The yield from plantation thinnings is, accordingly, not so 

 heavy as last year. It may be of interest, however, to note that so far there 

 has been no waste. Local fuel requirements are sufficient to consume our 

 plantation thinnings as rapidly as they are placed on the market. 



PLANTATION YIELDS 



Extensive work in connection with woodlot improvement was carried out 

 during the late fall of 1930, winter and early spring months of 1931. 



Since nearly all of the plantations were cleaned up in the previous year it 

 was possible to concentrate on improvement cuttings over a large acreage of 

 natural woodland and prepare the way for underplanting. Lots Nos. 26, 32, 43, 

 Park Lot 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, comprising a total area of 122% acres were subjected 

 to a final cutting. Old, ill-formed, and diseased trees were removed, leaving 

 only young, vigorous stems of white pine, white oak, ash, maple and elm, averag- 

 ing forty years of age to form a light overhead and came within the same rotation 

 as the underplanting which was carried out during the recent fall of 1931. 



The yield of lumber, fuel, posts and poles accruing from woodlot improvement 

 is herewith tabulated: 



