1925 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 109 



Summary of the Year's Operations: 



(a) Total number of seed beds sown 1,324 



(b) Total number of pounds of coniferous seed sown 1,407 



(c) Total number of pounds of coniferous seed on hand. . 1,780 



(d) Total number of transplants lined out 2,852,080 



(e) Total number of transplants shipped to Orono and 



Midhurst Forestry Stations 3,784,000 



(/) Total nursery stock on hand 14,501,400 



Orono 



Seedmg: Owing to the lack of an irrigation system as yet, the seeding oi 

 coniferous species has not been carried on extensively. With certain speciesr 

 notably white pine and white spruce of the native varieties and scotch pine of 

 the exotic varieties, our experimental beds have produced an eighty per cent, to 

 eighty-five per cent, stand without irrigation, but with other species the necessity 

 for water was very apparent. Twenty-four beds were sown in the spring and 

 ninety in the autumn. 



FALL SOWING OF CONIFEROUS BEDS 



lbs. ozs. 



Cedar, white 3 12 



Juniper, red 3 12 



Pine, red 14 4 



Pine, Scotch 1 14 



Pine, white 78 . . 



Spruce, white 8 



109 10 



SOWING OF HARDWOOD SEED 



Bushels 



Ash, white S'/z 



Birch, white '/2 



Birch, yellow ~ '/z 



Elm, white 10 



Maple, hard V2 



Maple, soft 50 



Walnut 30 



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 Nursery Lines 



SPRING TRANSPLANTING OF CONIFERS 



Seedlings 



Cedar, white (2 years) 4,000 



Pine, Jack (2 years) 30,000 



Pine, Jack (1 year) 125,000 



Pine, red (1 year) 20,000 



Pine, Scotch (1 year). 470,000 



Pine, white (1 year) 475,000 



Spruce, white (2 years) 50,000 



Total 1,174,000 



Transplanting: Fall transplanting has been found to yield very satisfactory 

 results although a little more care has been found necessary. As we have no 

 protective hedges which have reached a size sufficient to form effective wind- 

 breaks, it has been necessary to mulch with rye straw and brush to hold snow. 

 In this way snow blankets from two to three feet in depth are found over the 

 transplant beds. 



As hardwoods are usually of large enough size for distribution at the end of 

 the first growing season, only such as are backward in the first season's growth 

 or are excess stock are transplanted, except hard maple which requires two years 

 at the nursery. 



