1927 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS m 



Fertilizers: As a direct result of consistent fertilizing it has been found 

 possible to increase the annual output of planting material on the same area. 

 Primarily the soils at the Norfolk Forestry Station were lacking in organic 

 matter, and only by heavy manuring, and by ploughing down green crops has 

 it been possible to arrive at the present degree of fertility. Each succeeding 

 year, however, reveals an increased productivity in the nursery section. Barn- 

 yard manure comprises the main fertilizer as it seems to fill the bill in the return 

 to the soil of those constituents requisite to the development of good nursery 

 stock. Commercial fertilizers and lime was used in 1926 rather more sparingly 

 than in prior years, since most of the nursery compartments had already received 

 a liberal application in 1925. 



It must be understood that the growing of forest tree seedlings is not like 

 farming. When a crop of trees is taken off there is nothing left to plough down 

 and therefore it is necessary in the absence of crop rotations to renew the soil 

 nutrients by direct applications of fertilizers. 



FERTILIZERS APPLIED DURING 1926 



Totals 



Manure 781 tons 



Lime 4 tons 



Rock Phosphate 350 lbs. 



Acid Phosphate 3,400 lbs. 



Dried Blood 1,550 lbs. 



Tree Seed: On account of the poor seed crop of 1925, and the increased 

 amount of seed that is being sown annually, there is a general shortage in storage 

 at the present time. 



SEED IN STORAGE AT ST. WILLIAMS 



Amount 

 Species: Pounds Bushels 



White Pine 13 



Red Pine 827^ 



Scotch Pine 78J^ 



Jack Pine nil 



White Cedar 5 



Red Cedar 3 



White Spruce 2 



Norway Spruce 40 1 



Sitka Spruce 10 



Balsam 67 



Basswood 5 



Red Oak (acorns) 4 



White Ash 3 



Black Locust 30>^ 



Totals 1,4423^ 7 



Addition to Property: During 1926, the acquisition of the major portion of 

 what are locally known as the Normandale Plains evidences a notable advance- 

 ment in the life of the Norfolk Forestry Station. These plains have lain waste 

 for decades, and the 1,500 acres now procured by the Crown will be developed, 

 with the dual aim of reforesting and improving that section which has for 

 years been an eye-sore and general drawback in the progress of the district. 

 Added to that of the Headquarters property, the St. Williams Forestry 

 Station now comprises a total area of 3,145 acres. 



An auxiliary pumping station was erected to meet with the ever-increasing 

 irrigation requisites. The machinery of the original station will be transferred 

 to this new building, and in its place there is being installed an electrically 



