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farm taken two years after, when the trees that were planted have grown as shown in 

 the photograph. Here are some of the nurseries at Indian Head, where they raise the 

 trees, and you will see there the length of time that they have been planted. 



A voice: What area have you? 



Mr. STEWART. We have fifteen acres at Indian Head and something like ten 

 acres at Brandon. There are two principal trees, the Manitoba maple and the green 

 ash, that we send out, besides these we distribute certain quantities of elm and cotton- 

 Tvcod. They are small and are sent by 'express and the parties are notified when to 

 expect their trees. They are well packed and all in the same neighbourhood are ar- 

 langed to be sent at the same time, so that if a farmer is in the neighbourhood and 

 cannot go in himself to the station to get his trees, perhaps his neighbour will be 

 going in and he will get them for him. He has full instructions how to plant them. 



And now as to .the result. In certain areas when there is a great deal of moisture 

 hi the ground we lose scarcely any trees. I think I am safe in saying that out of all 

 *e have planted during the last three years 85 per cent are now growing, and this is 

 Tery largely from the care taken in planting and looking after the seedlings. Since 

 the year 1901 we will have sent, when this spring's shipments are made out, 3,120,473 

 trees. In the year 1901 we had just started and only sent out 63,786. The next year 

 we sent out 456,687 trees and 738 Ibs. of seed. In 1903 we sent out 900,000 trees and 

 750 Ibs. of seed. This year," as I have said, we will distribute 1,700,000 and thirty Ibs. 

 of seed. We cannot always depend on having large quantities of seed. The total 

 number of trees planted, including those which will be put in this coming spring, will 

 be, as I have said, 3,120,473, and we are having applications this year from about 2.300 

 farmers who wish to plant in the spring of 1905. 



Now, there are two objects in this work. One is educative, and the other is to 

 give practical benefit to the settler. If you have a plantation and it does well, it is 

 an object lesson to the neighbour and he becomes interested. It is an education on 

 these lines and though we have furnished those trees so far free, it will scarcely be 

 possible for us to continue always to do so to the full extent that we are now doing if 

 the farmers take hold of it to the extent that we hope. However, the cost of raising 

 seedlings in large quantities is very small. Heretofore we have used the two ex- 

 perimental farms, but we had to keep two sets of farm hands and two foremen, one 

 at Brandon and one at Indian Head. We recently took a quarter-section of our own 

 and we are now putting up buildings there and are making it a forest nursery station. 

 We hope to have there a model forest nursery plantation. We will have a foreman 

 there and be able to do certain experimental work that is quite necessary in ad- 

 dition to growing the seedlings. I may say that we have been able to do this work, 

 both the protection and what little exploration we do in this tree planting with a 

 Tery small grant. We started with $10,000 first. Afterwards it was increased to 

 $15,000, but I am glad to say that last year we got the appropriation increased to 

 $40,000. And this year we hope it will not be less. 



Mr. SOUTHWORTH. We have with us one of the staff of the Farmers' Institutes of 

 the province. He has already devoted considerable attention to this phase of forestry, 

 and I would like to ask Mr. Nash to speak for a moment. 



