lU REPORT OP THE No. ^ 



Provincial Transplant Nurseries: 



Sand Banks (Prince Edward County). 



Kemptville (Grenville County). 

 County Forests. 

 Private Forests. 

 Northern Plantations. 

 Demonstration Plots. 

 Private Planting. 

 Seed Collecting. 



Summary of Trees Planted Permanently. 

 Summary of Nursery Stock for Planting 1929. 

 Income. 



St. Williams 



Station No. 2, situated seven miles from headquarters, has during the 

 current year, been the scene of active establishment. Although the progress 

 of this station may warrant individual consideration, the two nurseries will 

 be reported upon collectively for the purpose of simplicity. 



During the fall of 1927 and winter of 1928, a small staff was retained for 

 the purposes of carrying on maintenance work. When the weather premitted, 

 outside operations included silvicultural activities. Twenty-five acres of scrub 

 oak country were cleared of inferior growth permitting white oak and white 

 pine to remain standing. At Station No. 2 there were thirty-two acres of similar 

 sites treated in a like manner. The purposes of these improvement cuttings 

 may be said to be three-fold, in that they remove all ill-formed, diseased and 

 otherwise inferior trees, provide an example for the proper handling of such 

 areas, and prepare new planting sites on which extensive reforestation of superior 

 species may be effected. 



When inclement weather prohibited outdoor work, the staff found sheltered 

 employment, constructing shipping crates, extracting and cleaning seed, painting 

 and repairing all tools, implements and other equipment. In addition to these 

 various inside occupations in excess of one-half million Carolina poplar cuttings 

 were manufactured during the dormant season. This latter winter work is most 

 essential, as it is imperative that cuttings be made not later than February in 

 order that the end cuts have time to heal over before the cuttings are planted 

 in the spring. 



Nursery operations commenced on April 2nd, rather later than in former 

 years. In addition to the permanent staff, 106 temporary labourers were taken 

 on strength, eighty-eight men at Station No. 1, and eighteen operatives at the 

 Turkey Point Nursery. Lifting of nursery stock for permanent distribution 

 immediately proceeded. 



(1) Nursery Operations 

 (a) Fertilizers. 



Forty acres of the transplant section were sown to soy beans in late June, 

 and a top dressing of ten tons per acre of decomposed manure was applied after 

 seeding. The beans were inoculated with a nitro culture, which proved excep- 

 tionally effective in producing nitrogen-forming nodules on the root fibres. 

 An excellent crop of soy beans resulted over the entire area. These were ploughed 

 down as green manure in August after which the land was lightly "top" worked 

 until late fall. Twenty tons per acre of well rotted manure were again spread 



