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In addition to the above totals representing available permanent planting 

 stock for the spring of 1929, there remain 19,072,000 trees in various stages of 

 development. 



(2) Improvements 



Satisfactory progress has been made at Turkey Point, now described as 

 Norfolk Forestry Station No. 2. This station is only seven miles distant from 

 Headquarters, and a good gravel road connecting the two points, accessibility 

 by motor is but a question of a few moments. 



The staff comprises head foreman, one assistant foreman, teamster and 

 sixteen men. When additional help is required, men from Station No. 1, or 

 Headquarters, are transferred by truck. This has been found to be a satisfactory 

 procedure, and during 1928 has been consistently practised. 



Approximately one mile of first class gravel road (three loads in a place) 

 has been constructed on Station No. 2 this year. In addition to this, Turkey 

 Point hill has been cut down further, concrete gutters built on either side of the 

 roadway and the grades turfed with twitch grass sod. 



Another very bad section of road, known as "Gibson's Gully," was widened 

 from ten feet to twenty-four feet, cribbed, graded and gravelled. Permanent 

 road signs were established throughout the property. 



Three buildings were erected at Station No. 2 Headquarters, viz., barn 

 forty feet by sixty feet, an implement shed and workshop combined, thirty feet 

 by sixty feet, and a drive shed twenty-eight feet by forty-eight feet. These 

 buildings were all built to meet maximum requirements, and are of first-class 

 construction. 



Several parcels of land lying within the original property, have been acquired 

 this year, squaring out the area into one solid block of approximately 1,627 

 acres of Crown land. 



(3) Permanent Planting 



Stock of this kind supplied for planting in different parts of the province 

 totalled 4,904,000 in the spring of 1928. The number planted on the two 

 Forestry Stations in Norfolk County amounted to 363,700, making a total of 

 5,267,700 supplied for permant planting. 



Twenty-five acres of cut-over land on Station No. 1 were planted to jack 

 pine. In addition to this, all fail places in plantations already established were 

 filled in. 



Reclamation work at Station No. 2 entailed the planting of 240,000 conifers 

 and 16,000 hardwoods. 



The first step toward establishing permanent experimental plantations 

 was made during the fall of 1928. With the exception of plantings carried out on 

 blowing, hillside, and other hazardous sites where erosion from wind and water 

 is imminent, the entire area at Station No. 2, other than that retained for nursery 

 work, has been surveyed into standard two-acre plots. Each plot is 264 feet by 

 330 feet in size. Sixteen experimental plots — an area covering 32 acres — were 

 planted this fall, and comprise the white spruce group. 



The need of such experimental plantations has been long felt. Accurate 

 records are kept as to cost of planting material, cost of establishment, and 

 subsequent management. With such information at hand it will be possible 

 to not only authoratively advise prospective planters, but they will be able to 

 actually see how the different plantations are responding to the various soils, 

 sites and planting systems, and relate existing conditions to their own particular 

 projects, 



