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lin county. These plants consisted of two- 

 year-old seedlings, and also of three- and four- 

 year-old transplants from the state nurseries. 

 They were spaced five feet apart, the planta- 

 tion including over seven hundred acres, as 

 there were some swampy places on which no 

 work could be done. The work on these fields 

 was very successful and encouraging. Less 

 than one per cent of the entire planted stock 

 died ; but these failures were replaced by Hve 

 plants, and today there is not a blank in the 

 entire plantation. At first these young trees 

 grew very slowly until they recovered from 

 the shock of transplanting; but they are now 

 waist high, and it is expected that from this 

 time on they will put on leaders each year 

 from twenty to twenty-four inches in length. 

 Their growth was very rapid in the summer 

 of 1905, the leaders on most of the plants 

 attaining the height mentioned. 



In 1904, the commission made a large plan- 

 tation of hardwoods on some of the state 

 reservations near the Thousand Islands in the 

 St. Lawrence River. 



Last year (1905) still larger plantations were 

 made in various places in the state forest pre- 



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