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Camuliaii Forestry Journal, July. I(j20. 



Transplanting. 



At the end < >1 the secmul \'ear, tlie 

 seedlings are lifted carefully and are 

 transplanted in nursery rows lo" apart 

 and y/2" apart in tlie rtiw, to secure 

 strong, well rooted trees for the per- 

 manent site. The work begins as soon 

 as the frost is out of the sround, and 

 is completed before new leaders form. 

 In Quebec the season is the month of 

 Mav. The trans]dantin?4' is done with 

 a 7' Yale transjtlant board. The 

 accom])anying photogra])hs show this 

 board, the trench made to receive the 

 small seedlings and the system of fill- 

 ing in this trench, thus leaving 24 

 small trees planted at a time. A gang 

 of twenty-two men, girls and boys 

 transplant 60,000 seedlings per day. 



Care of Transplants. 



This is confined to cidtixation, and 

 for this purpose a small Garden Trac- 

 tor will be used wath special attach- 

 ments for cultivating 8 rows at a time. 

 The transplants remain in the trans- 

 plant beds for two years, are then 

 lifted by means of a fork and packed 

 with moss in boxes and transported to 

 the ])ermanent site by motor truck.. 



Field Planting. 



This is planting to the permanent 

 site. The season is short and the 

 planting force is large, consisting of 

 four or five crews, each under a fore- 

 man. Each crew is composed of ten 

 gangs ; a gang comprises a man to run 

 the planting machine and a boy to load 

 the same and carry plants. A photo- 

 graph shows the Jenssen planter in 

 operation. In rough places, a shovel 

 is used. The trees are placed at re- 

 gular intervals, 5" x 5', in rows. To 

 carry this out the first gang is given a 

 straight line, and the second pair start 

 another row 5", opposite the first plant 

 set by the first gang. A man and a 

 boy plant 1,000 to 1,200 trees a day. 

 and with our present spacing 1,740 

 trees are planted to the acre. 



In 1919 and 1920 were planted i,- 

 800,000 trees, and the Company has 

 now over 2,000 acres in plantations. 



To meet the demand of the nursery 

 policy outlined above the Company has 

 accpiired thirteen scpiare miles of the 

 surrounding land and jmrchases twcj 

 or three scpiare miles annually. This 

 land is classified under swamp, brush, 

 cleared and good coniferous reproduc- 

 tion. As soon as the land is obtainefl 

 wiirk is commenced to put it in shape 

 for ])lanting either by clearing out 

 l)rush or draining the swamjjs. There- 

 fore, this work in connection with 

 road work allows us to keep our best 

 lal)or all the year. 



l",x])erimental work is l)eing carried 

 out in cuttings, thinnings, draining 

 and planting sw^amp land. In the 

 plantations the Commission of Con- 

 servation, Ottawa, has fifty samjjle 

 plots. 



FORESTRY GRADUATES 



Three students were graduated from 

 the Faculty of Forestry of the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto at the recent Convoca- 

 tion, which took place on 4th June, 

 namely : Messrs. F. H. Horton. H. A. 

 Parker and W. G. Wright. Mr. Hor- 

 ton is employed by a pulp and paper 

 company, Messrs. Parker & Wright, 

 by the Dominion Forestry Branch. 

 Thirty-eight undergraduates have 

 found employment for the summer 

 months. Twenty of these are working 

 for pulp and paper or lumber com- 

 panies, 10 for the Dominion Forestry 

 Branch, 4 for the Commission of Con- 

 servation, 2 for the Ontario Forest 

 Branch, i for the Entomological 

 Branch, at Ottawa, and i is employed 

 by the Canadian National Railway. Of 

 the 5 other undergraduates 3 were un- 

 able to work on account of illness and 

 2 are engaged in private business af- 

 fairs. There has been a greater de- 

 mand for students for sunier w^ork 

 than could be filled. 



