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Ccuiaduui luircsfry M ayazinc, October, IQ20. 



found tliere. A visit to the nursery is iie- 

 o , sary in order that one may be con- 

 vinced of what may be accomplished in 

 six years. 



Fromi ])rairie land, or rather, land 

 which had once been cultivated and later 

 allowed to go back to prairie, has been 

 developed in that time a most beautiful 

 and well-equipped forest tree nursery. 

 Attractive and well built farm buildings 

 have been erected, and a handsome brick 

 residence for the superintendent occu- 

 pies a choice location in the park-like 

 sirroundintfs. 



Primary Object 



While the grounds and drives are laid 

 Qv* in artistic manner and garden shrubs 

 and flowers are to be found in vast pro- 

 fusion, and a visit to the farm would 

 furnish a valuable object lesson in land- 

 scape gardening, the primary aim of the 

 nursery station is to supply free trees for 

 lural home decoration, and to assist 

 farmers in checking soil-drifting by the 

 use of tree plantations. By tree-plant- 

 ing moisture in the soil is conserved, 

 f ri.tection is given to fruits and vege- 

 tables which, without such protection, 

 cannot be grown successfully, and the 

 farm generally, through beautification 

 and material benefit of plantations, takes 



on an added value. Any garden will give 

 better results when protected from the 

 wind, while the growing of strawberries, 

 white, red and black currants, rhubarb^ 

 phims and asparagus is made possible 

 in the most exposed sections of prairie 

 when shelter belt plantations are used. 



Forest Trees Only Supplied 

 Only forest trees aie grown at the 

 nursery for shipment, including maple, 

 ash, Russian poplar and caragana, which 

 are distributed free except for trans- 

 portation charges, and Scotch pine, 

 lodge-polie pine, jack-pine, and white 

 spruce, which are supplied at the nominal 

 cost of two cents per tree, in addition 

 to the transportation cost. 



Maples are shipped at the end of one 

 year's growth, ash at two years', cara- 

 gana at one to two years, and evergreens 

 at from three to five years, an average 

 of two million trees per year being the 

 output since the founding of the station. 



Distribution Oi'cr U^ide Area 

 Trees have been sent to applicants 

 throughout the three prairie provinces, 

 and to districts ranging from Portage 

 la Prairie on the east to Peace River on 

 the west. All points which can best be 

 served by railways out of Saskatoon re- 

 ceive their shipments while those which 



Cabbages, carrots and mangels grown prolifically on the farm of Andrew Anderson, Alsask, Sask. 

 Anderson owes fiis vegetable crops to the shelter obtained from belts of trees. 



