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A heater-house, ten feet by twelve feet and of cottage roof style, is located 

 on the ground immediately beneath the tank, to which it is connected by a three- 

 ply frost-proof box which protects the main feed pipe (4-inch), the heater 

 pipe (23^-inch) and the overflow pipe (13^-inch). In this heater-house is a coal 

 heater with a water jacket which causes sufificient circulation through the 23/2-inch 

 pipe to the tank to prevent freezing. A four-inch gate valve is located in this 

 building, permitting control of the filling of the tank. 



The four-inch distribution main is laid at a depth of from five feet to eight 

 feet below the surface of the ground. Outlets (13^-inch) through tees and kerb 

 cocks were located at intervals of 300 feet along the distribution main, while 

 four hydrants (13^-inch) placed strategically among the buildings give excellent 

 fire protection and four gate valves (4-inch) located on the pipe line give shut-oflf 

 control over the various sections of the line. A total of 5,775 feet of four-inch 

 main was laid. 



Buildings. — Aside from the pump-house, heater-house, retaining walls, 

 cistern and various concrete work necessitated by the irrigation installation, 

 construction was confined to a tool-house fourteen feet by eighteen feet, located 

 at the lower end of the seed-bed area. This will take care of tools and materials 

 during seeding seasons and will fill a long-felt want. 



A bush shack, fourteen feet by eighteen feet, with a shanty roof was erected 

 on the 200 acre bush lot. This was sheathed inside and out with lumber obtained 

 on the property and the walls loosely packed with sawdust. It is proposed to 

 use this building as a temporary shelter for any men who are engaged in cleaning 

 up operations on the property. 



Roads. — A wagon road was constructed to link up the pump-house and 

 tower with the main nursery road. This entailed considerable grading as a 

 large section of the road was located on a steep side hill. Main nursery roads 

 were graded and gravelled. 



Publicity. — The fall fair exhibit was considerably curtailed this year, being 

 confined to a tent exhibit at Colborne in Northumberland county, and at Orono. 

 Favourable results were obtained in both cases and it is hoped that we may be 

 enabled to carry on next year on the same scale as has previously been the case. 



Co-operation with the Department of Agriculture through the Durham 

 County Representative was continued and extended. Lectures on reforestation 

 and forestry generally were given at the Agricultural Short Course at Blackstock, 

 in Darlington township, during the winter. A small exhibit of trees with an 

 appropriate explanatory card was also used to embellish the Durham and 

 Northumberland counties exhibit in the Department of Agriculture section at 

 the Canadian National Exhibition. 



A splendidly attended lecture was also given before the Clarke township 

 Horticultural Society. 



These exhibits and lectures, together with the more general information 

 issued from Toronto, are bearing splendid results. In Durham and Northumber- 

 land there are now two county forests totalling 1,800 acres, six or more muni- 

 cipal demonstration plots, and a steadily increasing interest in reforestation, 

 woodlots and the forests generally, among the people as a whole. 



