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Silviculture: About thirty-five acres of second-growth hardwoods were sub- 

 jected to improvement cutting. These are in pole stage at present. Poor 

 especimens, weed trees, etc., were taken out and are being worked into wood. 



About thirty acres of swamp was partly cleaned up. About four years back 

 all the good timber in the swamp was taken out. No brush was burned and a 

 lot of down logs were left. This, with windfalls, since cutting, left the swamp 

 in bad condition. Roads have been made, brush burned up and considerable 

 wood from down logs have been worked up. 



Last winter about twenty large trees with soil frozen to roots were moved on 

 stoneboat and placed around buildings. This experiment was quite successful. 

 Early this winter twenty more sugar and red maple were moved. In the trees 

 moved last year it was found that elms would not stand moving; maples were 

 fairly successful. The ground was not thoroughly frozen around the hard 

 maples. 



Lawns and hedges were made around houses, windbreaks were planted, 

 marking roads and dividing the nursery into compartments. Considerable 

 stumping and breaking up new land for nursery purposes was done. Fifteen 

 acres of low land was fenced to be used for a pasture. 



The nursery land was prepared by fertilizing with manure and ploughing 

 under cover crops consisting of rye, buckwheat and peas. The peas grew so tall 

 that they had to be cut. Sweet clover has been sown for the same purpose. 



The basin in front of the dam has been cleaned out and the sides stoned. 



NURSERY STOCK ON HAND, DECEMBER 1st, 1924 



Conifers: 



White Pine 1,272,500 



Red Pine 1,646,600 



Scotch Pine 496,000 



Jack Pine 414,000 



European Larch 48,000 



White Cedar 390,000 



Balsam 134,000 



White Spruce 231,500 



Norway Spruce 44,000 



Sitka Spruce 72,000 



Hemlock 6,000 



Hardwoods : 



Silver Maple 75,000 



White Elm 76,320 



White Ash 6,175 



Butternut 16,425 



Walnut 2,100 



Locust 350 



Red Maple 675 



4,754,600 



177,045 



TRANSPLANT NURSERIES 

 Sand Banks 



The work at the sand banks this year consisted, for the most part, in filling 

 up failed places in the belts already established with poplar cuttings, and in 

 lifting and repairing catch fences. 



The transplants in the nursery were supplemented by several thousand 

 cuttings which are to be grown as rooted poplars for later transplanting on the 

 banks. This material is easily handled in nursery rows and has proven very 

 satisfactory in holding the drifting sand. 



