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lation of debris under hedges, trees, etc., provides an excellent harbour for field 

 mice, chipmunks and squirrels. These three rodents in particular can work 

 havoc during the late fall and winter in the seed-beds and can get away with a 

 tremendous quantity of seed. 



Disease. — The work of combating disease has been tenaciously carried on 

 this year. Under experienced supervision, three men inspected white pine for 

 weevil and removed all infested branches. Injury from weevil is gradually 

 becoming less. 



Eradication of members of the genus ribes for the purpose of preventing 

 the propagation of white pine blister rust continued. We are again happy to 

 report no evidence of this very serious disease. 



Chestnut blight {Endothia parasitica) is becoming frequent, but as yet 

 isolated. Inspection of several private holdings have been made and evidence 

 of the disease pointed out to the owners. 



NURSERY STOCK FOR 1928 DISTRIBUTION 



Conifers Number 



White Pine 1,200,000 



Red Pine 1,650,000 



Scotch Pine 500,000 



Jack Pine 760,000 



White Spruce 500,000 



Norway Spruce 325,000 



White Cedar 90,000 



European Larch 110,000 



Balsam 30,000 



5,165,000 



Hardwoods Number 



White Ash 114,000 



White and Yellow Birch .... 32,000 



Black Locust 26,000 



Beech 1,600 



Basswood 5,000 



Black Cherry 5,000 



Butternut 2,000 



Elm 33,000 



Chestnut 2,000 



Manitoba Maple 4,000 



Soft and Hard Maple Nil 



Red Oak 11,000 



Carolina Poplar, rooted .... 30,000 



Carolina Poplar, cuttings. . . 500,000 



Willow, rooted 1,000 



Willow, cuttings 1,000 



Walnut 50,000 



817,600 



Total 5,982,600 



In addition to the above totals, representing available permanent planting 

 stock for the spring of 1928, there remain several million of young seedings and 

 transplants not sufficiently developed to be distributed. 



Orono Nursery 



Nursery operations throughout the year have been subordinated to the 

 installation of an irrigation system. 



Weather conditions have been favourable to nursery operations as a whole. 

 The long warm autumn enabled us to keep well up with the seasonal activities 

 toward the end of the year. 



Seeding. — During the year a total of 957 coniferous seed-beds were set out 

 and 145 bushels of hardwood seed sown as follows: — 



