192 REPORT OP^ THE No. 3 



KEMPTVILLE TRANSPLANT NURSERY 



A small nursery has been established this year, in conjunction with the 

 Kemptville Agricultural School. An area of two acres has been set aside, to be 

 enlarged as neecied, on which three hundred thousand transplants were set out. 

 These will be used as a demonstration of tree growing for the students of the 

 school and will be supplied to private land-owners in the eastern part of the 

 Province for reforesting work. 



FOREST PLANTATIONS 

 SAND BANKS 



The work done on the Sand Banks of Prince Edward County thus far 

 has shown that only trees which will grow under the most adverse conditions 

 are of use in work of this kind. The two trees used most up to the present are 

 green willow and Carolina poplar, limb material being used on the exposed 

 areas and cuttings on the protected places. As suitable willow material for this 

 work is available in large quantities close by, an effort was made to get as much 

 as possible, to stem the march of the sand. In all during the year one hundred 

 and sixty-five cords were planted as well as several thousand cuttings. 



One of the chief difficulties in this work is to prevent the sand from covering 

 the planted areas during the time of a severe wind storm. The time of the year 

 when this sort of damage is most severe is in winter when the sand mingles 

 with snow, or rides rapidly over it accumulating, in some places, several feet 

 deep. To prevent such drifting, catch fences have been erected at regular 

 intervals and at right angles to the direction of greatest drift. These are made 

 of brush woven on wire, laths woven on wire and eight foot plank stood on end. 

 Such fences catch the sand much in the same way as snow fences behave on a 

 railroad right-of-way, and prevent excessive drifting and give the trees a chance 

 to become established. 



During the summer 2,000 feet of plank fence and 3,000 feet of lath and 

 brush fence we're "erected for this purpose. 



Besides the work of planting on the Sand Banks some six acres have been 

 prepared for nursery work and are being usd for transplants. Material of this 

 kind growing at the station is as follows: 



HARDWOODS 



Ash, White 8,300 



Walnut 15,450 



Butternut 11,000 



Red Oak 1,100 



Soft Maple 250 



Hard Maple 20,300 



Honey Locust 7,000 



Elm 4,200 



67,600 



CONIFERS 



Scotch Pine. 156,400 



Jack Pine 684,500 



Red Pine 74,000 



White Pine 46,300 



White Spruce 214,100 



Norway Spruce 24,500 



Cedar, White 72,800 



European Larch .' 20,000 



1,202,600 



Grand total 1,449,600 



