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Appendix No. 21 



II.— REFORESTATION 



1. NURSERIES 



Nursery work continued on all three nurseries during the past year with 

 approximately the same staff and handling of stock as in the last two previous 

 years. The season was marked by an excessive heat wave and dry spell in 

 mid-summer and an unusually cold spell with snow in the early autumn. 

 Both these extremes created difficulties at the nurseries and some loss in 

 stock but not to the extent of hampering the work for succeeding years. 



Nursery Operations 

 (a) Fertilizers 

 The four methods of maintaining fertility of the soil at the nurseries, 

 namely, green manure crops, barnyard manure, commercial fertilizer and 

 humus were continued this year. 



(b) Seed 

 All seed used was collected in Ontario with the exception of Scotch pine, 

 larch and a few pounds of other exotics. (See heading Seed Collecting). 



(c) Seed Beds 

 Owing to the excessively cold weather and early snow in the autumn of 

 1936, seed bed work was interfered with somewhat and beds which were 

 planned for the fall had to be held over until spring. 



(d) Transplanting 

 Owing to the extreme heat of the summer of 1936 considerable loss was 

 suffered in the transplant lines, especially those set out in the current year. 



TABLE I.— QUANTITIES OF FERTILIZERS USED 



Improvements 

 (a) Buildings 

 No new buildings were erected on the nurseries this year except a small 

 greenhouse at Midhurst. Painting and other necessary repairs were carried 

 on as required. 



(b) Roads and Bridges 



Road building consisted of one-half mile of new road at Midhurst, a 

 new entrance roadway to the park at Orono and necessary gravelling and 

 maintenance work on all three nurseries. 



(c) Other Improvements 



At Midhurst, in co-operation with the Department of Game and Fisheries, 

 four permanent cement dams were built at the outlet of four ponds which are 

 being used for the propagation of speckled trout. Sixty thousand fingerlings 

 were carried over during the winter of 1936-7. 



On all nurseries, fences, hedges and fire lines were repaired and maintained- 



