1926 



DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 



91 



Midhurst: 

 Seed Beds: 



Seed beds were sown both in spring and fall, as follows: 



Number in Number in 



Species: Spring 



Scotch Pine 64 



Jack Pine 8 



White Pine 5 



Red Pine 6 



Red Cedar 1 



Balsam 1 



White Spruce 7 



White Cedar 6 



Hemlock 



Totals 98 



Fall 



54 



10 

 102 

 126 



20 



20 



361 



HARDWaOD SEED SOWN 



Amount 



Species: Bushels. 



Red Maple 7 



Silver Maple 5 



White Elm 4 



Red Oak 22 



Black Cherry 4 



Basswood 2 



White Ash 5 



Black Ash 5 



Total 54 



Nursery Lines: Transplanting was carried on during spring and fall. Fall 

 transplanting was not successful in 1924 on account of heaving in the spring. 

 This season the fall transplants are covered with a light mulch of wheat straw. 

 It has been noted that the larger plants have a far less tendency to heave, so 

 on this account two-year-old seedlings are transplanted in fall in preference to 

 one-year-old seedlings. A system that allows fall transplanting aids in division 

 of labour in regard to the seasons. 



Permanent Planting: Four hundred and twenty-eight acres have been 

 planted permanently on the station property, 200 acres being this year's plant- 

 ing, leaving 125 acres to be planted. All the plantations are doing well. In 

 one sixteen-acre scotch pine plantation planted last spring it was impossible to 

 find a dead tree. Windbreaks have been planted dividing nursery into com- 

 partments. 



Silviculture: There are 136 acres of swamp land and 114 acres of hardwood 

 bush on station property. Roads have been laid out and cut through in both 

 hardwoods and swamp, making it possible to practise selection cutting. In 

 the swamp an improvement cutting is being made in a fine fifteen-year-old stand 

 of white spruce that occurs naturally. 



About fifty acres of hardwood have seeded naturally with red oak the past 

 summer. This fall thirty-nine acres were underplanted with white pine, where 

 oak had not come in owing to scarcity of seed trees. 



General Work: The nursery ground is being built up by plowing under 

 cover crops of sweet clover, rye and vetch, 200 loads of well decomposed muck 

 was hauled from swamp last winter and put in land. Manure is brought from 

 adjacent farms. 



