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The total number of trees distributed for all purposes was 8,978,176. 



Nursery work was carried on in the usual way at St. Williams, Orono and 

 Midhurst. Some loss was sustained owing to the extreme weather conditions 

 but a supply of nursery stock has been produced very little below our recent 

 yearly average. 



Work on the nine county Forests was curtailed and only necessary planting 

 and protection was taken care of. A program of inspection was carried out on 

 all important demonstration plots. 



Seed collecting consisted of procuring only those species which were 

 absolutely necessary for our present work. 



Tree planting was carried on again this year in connection with the Federal 

 Government at Camp Borden, Petawawa and Val Cartier, using unemployed 

 relief labour. 



REVENUE 



The total collection, as shown by Appendix No. 4, of the Department up 

 to the end of October 31st., 1934, amounted to $2,258,320.92, which was in 

 excess of the previous year by $359,873.48, the increase obtaining during the 

 last three months of the year. Certain of these collections, however, having 

 been applied in reduction of expenditures lessened the total by $420,521.72, 

 the details of which are shown in the same appendix. This left a net revenue 

 of $1,837,799.20, an amount greater than the previous year by $228,404.24. 

 There was a slight increase in Land Collections, about $12,000.00 in Provincial 

 Land Taxes and over $225,000.00 in the Woods and Forests accounts. 



This level of Revenue is still comparatively low, but it is recognized that 

 the greatest source of the Department's income is the Forest, and only as and 

 when the great Forest Products Industry gets reasonably firmly established 

 can it be expected that substantial increases in the Revenue will result. 



EXPENDITURES 



A perusal of Appendix No. 7 discloses an aggregate expenditure of $2,152,- 

 851.08 on all services representing an increase over the previous year of 

 $214,277.86. Of the total expenditure slightly over eighty per cent, is ordinary 

 and the balance capital. 



While certain of the services showed decreases, these were counteracted 

 by additional expenditures in fire-ranging to the extent of some $163,000.00, 

 the total cost of such service being $1,241,895.07, or considerably over fifty 

 per cent of the entire expenditures of the Department. Forest Ranging 

 accounted for an increase of nearly $50,000.00, Reforestation over $10,000.00 

 and Surveys some $3,600.00. 



Although there has been during the last few years a decidedly adverse 

 situation with regard to the entire forest products industry, in that operations 



