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REPORT OF THE 



No. 3 



Fertilizers. —As a result of heavy fertilizing over a period of years, our 

 nursery area has been brought up to a high state of fertility, and it is now found 

 unnecessary to fertilize so intensively as heretofore. 



The policy of growing leguminous crops to be plowed under for green 

 manure is, however, being consistently adhered to, and this procedure, supple- 

 mented by a light top dressing of decomposed manure appears to be all that is 

 required to maintain an efficient soil condition for the production of nursery 

 stock. Commercial fertilizer, true, is applied to a number of compartments 

 that are not quite up to the mark, but the quantity of lime, phosphates and 

 blood is in no degree as great as that which it has been the custom to use in 

 former years. 



FERTILIZERS APPLIED DURING 1927 



Tree Seed. — Heavy inroads have been made on the surplus seed stock in 

 storage at Saint Williams. Due partly to the fact that recent seed years have 

 not been the best, but more particularly on account of increased production of 

 all three Forest Stations, seed requirements are more than doubled. 



Present amount of seed in storage includes: — 



Species Weight (lbs.) 



White Pine U 



Red Pine 41 



Scotch Pine . None 



Jack Pine 16 



Norway Spruce 591 



White Spruce 6 



Hemlock 66 



European Larch 67 J^ 



Balsam 132^ 



White Cedar •. 2 



Black Locust 11 J^ 



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Addition to Property. — The outstanding feature as regards addition to 

 property, is the recent acquisition of what is known as the Turkey Point prop- 

 erty. As the Norfolk Forest Station No. 2, this area, comprising some 1,500 

 acres of partly wooded sand land, is possessed of vast potentialities from the 

 viewpoint that there are several areas suitable for the production of nursery 

 stock, while other expansive stretches of waste land provide the possibility of 

 establishing experimental forest plantations. 



Rapid development of this area has been efifected during the recent summer. 

 Three and three-quarters miles of road have been graded thirty feet in width, 

 after which gravel had been applied "three loads wide." 



