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Nursery Lines: The following seedlings were lined out during the season 

 of 1926. All, except white spruce, were lifted from Midhurst beds. 



Species: 



White Pine 



Red Pine 



Scotch Pine 



Jack Pine 



White Spruce ; 



White Cedar 



Red Cedar 



Balsam 



Total for season. 



Fertilizers: The nursery ground is being built up by using manure, clay, 

 black muck from swamp, and ploughing under cover crops of sweet clover, rye 

 and vetch. 



An experiment was made this year with muck on ground that was put into 

 nursery lines in spring of 1926. The plants on strip where muck was put on 

 during winter were healthier and larger. The experiment showed quite con- 

 clusively that the muck is very beneficial to the soil. The same experiment is 

 being tried with clay next spring. A light dressing of clay is put on the seed- 

 bed ground and also on other land that is very light. Bone meal is put on the 

 seed-beds when they are made up. 



Buildings: Two hen houses and a small, open shed for waggons, were built 

 this year. 



Roads: The roads on property are being gradually graded up and gravelled 



Survey: Strip surveys have been made of woodlots. A large scale map is 

 being made, and all the information gained will be tabulated. 



Silviculture: There is a wide variety of woodlots on the Forest Station 

 property, and the management of these is going to be one of the most interesting 

 parts of its development. These woodlots are being gradually brought under 

 management. Last winter 10,000 board feet were sawed into lumber, and 200 

 cords of wood were sold in the neighbourhood, besides the wood used at Station. 

 Selection cutting was practised; all diseased, ill-formed and weed trees were 

 taken out. Burning and lopping was practised in brush disposal. 



During November and December of 1926 a considerable area of swamp 

 has been cleaned out, and poles have been taken out to be worked up into seed- 

 bed frames. 



There is considerable poplar (Populus grandidentata) in varying sizes from 

 sapling to trees 15 inches D.B.H. During the winter of 1925-26 it was observed 

 that a great number were being attacked by a fungus. A specimen was sent to 

 Botany Department at Toronto, and it was identified as poplar canker 

 (Hypoxylon pruinatum). It is very prevalent, attacking trees up to 10 inches 

 D.B.H. It is a very serious matter as poplar has come in very thickly all 

 through this section and if it is destroyed there will not be much wood left. 



Three new plantations were established in fall of 1926, planting up an area 

 of thirty-five acres. One plantation is especially interesting, as two-year-old 

 red pine seedlings were used for planting. 



Landscape Work: A large number of hardwoods — basswood, white birch, 

 red oak — were moved in the fall of 1926 for avenues and landscape work around 

 the dam and site for superintendent's residence. Twenty-five trees were moved 

 in early winter with ball of frozen earth. 



