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appropriations are made for it. This year 

 the cost has been about $8 per acre. It was 

 more at the beginning of the work, and will 

 be less in the future, as the state will be 

 in a position soon to raise all its seedlings 

 at its own nurseries. Up to now it has 

 bought many seedlings both at home and 

 abroad. 



Carried along with this work are several 

 state nurseries, the principal one being at 

 Amherst, and out of these State Forester 

 Rane will take most of the trees that are 

 to be planted in the future. Expenses will 

 be reduced when this becomes possible, 

 and it is not improbable that enough plants 

 can be taken out of the nurseries next year 

 to conduct operations on as extensive a 

 scale as at present. With the money the 

 legislature has been appropriating in the 

 past the state has planted about one thou- 

 sand acres a year for three years and at 

 that rate the nurseries are already able 

 to supply the demands. The forester made 

 an effort this year to have the work broad- 

 ened, so as to plant several thousand acres 

 a year, but the governor and the legislature 

 have not yet shown any disposition to give 

 their approval. 



When the department took stock of the 

 nursery at Amherst it found on hand seed- 

 lings worth $7,380 on a conservative whole- 

 sale basis. The total expense of the nur- 

 sery up to that time. May 10, 1911, was 

 $7,971 and for sales the department had 

 taken in $1,132, which have been turned 

 back into the state treasury; trees shipped 

 out in 1910 were valued at $1,851, so that 

 the actual cost of the present $7,382 stock 

 is $4,987. 



An inventory at the nursery shows the 

 following stock on hand minus what has 

 been taken out for transplanting this sum- 

 mer: 



3-Year transplanted white pine 36,000 



1-Year white pine 1,500,000 



1-Year Norway spruce 1,000,000 



2-Year white pine transplanted 170,000 



2- Year white pine heeled in 224,000 



2-Year white pine shipped 440,100 



4-Year white pine shipped 11,500 



4-Year white pine heeledin 11,000 



3-Year box elder transplanted 



shipped 3,500 



4-Year Norway spruce transplanted 



shipped 8,500 



3-Year black locust transplanted, 



shinped 11,000 



3-Year Catalpa Speciosa shipped. . . 9,500 

 3-Year honev locust transplanted 



shipped 60,000 



2-Year white pine seedlings 500,000 



2-Year red pine seedlings 25,000 



3- Year white pine transplanted. . . . I^'.JOO 



The above list shows 2,500,000 of white 

 pine and Norway spruce which are only a 

 year old and 500,000 white pine seedlings 

 which are two years old. Out of the total of 

 about fifteen different kinds the department 



will have about 1,000,000 plants available 

 for transplanting next year, and may not 

 have to buy any outside. Considerable new 

 ground has been seeded to keep the stock 

 up and enlarge it for possible future de- 

 mands. 



Wisconsin Taking Stock 



In response to a resolution introduced in 

 the assembly, calling on State Forester 

 Griffith for information regarding the num- 

 ber of acres of land now under option by 

 the state board of forestry, the price to be 

 paid per acre and also the price which has 

 been paid for such lands, the state forester 

 sent a communication to the assembly on 

 Tuesday. In this report he says that the 

 board holds no land under option. 



Mr. Griffith included in his report lands 

 which has been purchased from September, 

 1907, forward. Among the latest and heav- 

 iest purchases were 27,252.51 acres of the 

 G. F. Sanborn Lumber Company, Eagle 

 River, at $3.50 per acre; 600 acres of the 

 Buswell Manufacturing and Lumber Com- 

 pany, Wausau, at $2.50 per acre; 640 acres 

 of the Alexander Stewart Lumber Com- 

 pany, Wausau, at $3 per acre, and 1,696 acres 

 of the Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Company at 

 $2.50 per acre. 



"All of the above purchases," said Mr. 

 Griffith, "have been completed and fully 

 paid for except the Yawkey-Bissell Lumber 

 Company, the Goodyear Lumber Company 

 and the G. F. Sanborn Lumber Company, 

 which will be completed under land con- 

 tracts as funds are available." 



The total acreage of lands purchased is 

 given at 111,407 acres. Of lands granted to 

 the state by the Federal Government and 

 the Nebegamon Lumber Company there are 

 24,321 acres, making a total acreage of 

 133,728 acres. 



In conclusion Mr. Griffith said that most 

 of the lands purchased contained valuable 

 young timber, which, if protected from fire, 

 would grow into valuable forests. The 

 average price paid, he said, was $3 per acre, 

 which he considered reasonable considering 

 the location, much of the land bordering on 

 the lalces in the northern part of the State. 



He claimed the state forest reserve lands 

 were worth between $1,500,000 and $2,000,- 

 000. In order to protect its lands he said 

 it was necessary for the state to secure 

 lands scattered about among the state hold- 

 ings. Only an ample appropriation for the 

 use of the state board of forestry, he said, 

 would enable the board to do this. 



Mr. GriflSth said the appropriation grant- 

 ed at this session of the legislature would 

 "largely determine the future success of 

 forestry in Wisconsin." As the assembly 

 last week reduced the appropriation of 

 $200,000 annually recommended by the 

 finance committee to $50,000 the state board 

 will apparently have to go slow for a time. 



