On/ufio Girvernmeul A'utsi'rv Station 



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man and his assiKtant. Srrdbfds and 

 nursery rows havi' lnM»n s»*t out, and 

 sonu' oT the worst IiIIIh, those whose 

 tops were blowing into thf adjoining 

 vaUcys and covcrinfj up \\w fairly 

 jjood hind there, have been planted 

 out. These small trees, though 

 l)lanted in what seems a veritable 

 satxlbank without a hhidi* of ^rass 

 for uerj's, have done well. and. snuill 

 as they are. have held the sand from 

 blowing. Kields fairly level and 

 available for nurs'ry beds have been 

 sown to rye, eow-peas, clover, etc., 

 and the soil enriched by turning 

 in the crop. The results have aston- 

 ished somi' people in the neighbor- 



Ontario tarmers tor planting iiave 

 been shipped. While the party of 

 students wat at the nuniery |>repar- 

 ations were going forward to ship 

 out the trees for this season, and 

 these were shipped out in the fol* 

 lowing week. This quantity is very 

 small when compared with the three 

 millions per year ship(>ed out from 

 the Dominion Forestry Branch Nur- 

 sery Station at Indian Head. Sask.. 

 but it nuist l)e remembered that 

 much of the planting in Ontario is 

 done with trees obtained from neigh- 

 boring woods, and further that the 

 number to be recpiested by the farm- 

 ers of Ontario will undoubtedly in- 



Forestry Students planting Scots pine, Norfolk County Nursery Station. 



hood who never allowed anything 

 in the nature of a crop to get up 

 above the ground without taking it 

 oflF. 



There have been in the past con- 

 siderable im]K)rtations of seedling 

 stock from Europe to the nursery 

 station, but it is expected that within 

 a few years all that is required can 

 be produced in the nurseries here. 

 It is from these nurseries that the 

 400.0(X) seedling trees per year 

 which hav(> been sent out free to 



crease very rapidly in the next few 

 years. In fact up to the present 

 the demand has kept pace with the 

 facilities at the nursery station. 



The trees so far set out in per- 

 manent location on the plantation 

 include black locust (Robinia pseud- 

 acacia), jackpine, Scotch pine luid 

 white and red pine. KxiM>riments 

 are also being made with ash. wal- 

 nut, oak and butternut. The first- 

 named tree, black locust, seems to 

 thrive best of all on these sand hills. 



