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In addition to the foregoing there are also 6,550,000 other trees in various 

 stages of growth in the nursery. 



(2) Improvements. 



Building operations this year were largely confined to the completion of 

 and putting the finishijng touches on those structures erected last year in connec- 

 tion with the irrigation installation. 



We had the misfortune to lose by fire the lunch-room which had been adapted 

 from the old farm house on the property. We had no fire-fighting equipment 

 and, as the fire was at midnight, the building was a total loss although fully 

 covered by insurance. This loss greatly inconvenienced us throughout the year. 

 A start was made in the replacement of the building by a combined office, lunch- 

 room and store-room, 36 feet by 26 feet. The foundations were dug and concrete 

 walls built. 



Waggon roads were opened through the south section of the nursery 

 property and all other roads graded and gravelled. The main bridge on the 

 approach from the village was raised eighteen inches by jacking up the timbers 

 and pouring a slab of cement of that thickness on top of the abutments. The 

 road was then graded to that height. 



On the bush lot in Manvers township, 775 rods of wire fence 7, No. 9 gauge, 

 48 inches high was built with seven gates, on main trails and opening into separate 

 blocks. Five hundred rods of old fence was rebuilt or repaired. As before steel 

 posts were used throughout, with the exception of brace and corner posts which 

 are of oak. 



The irrigation system has occupied a major portion of the time consumed on 

 construction work during the year. At the close of 1927, a 10,000 U.S. gallon 

 wooden tank on 100 feet of steel, was erected, all mains were laid and hydrants, 

 etc., established. This work was completed on January 17th and immediately 

 put into operation. 



(3) Permanent Planting. 



No additions were made to nursery demonstration plantations. The only 

 activity in this direction was confined to maintenance and the refilling of fail 

 places. 



(4) Protection. 



Twenty-foot fire-guards were opened up on the fence lines on the two 

 hundred-acre bush lot and all roads and trails are being opened up as an additional 

 protection. 



A party of two men were engaged in the vicinity of the nursery during the 

 summer in ribes eradication. Wild currants and gooseberries for a space of one 

 half mile on all sides of the nursery were pulled out by the roots and destroyed. 

 Three plantations in the vicinity of the nursery are infected with white pine 

 blister rust, varying in degrees of severity. 



(5) Woodlot Improvement. 



Improvement cuttings were carried out in the two hundred-acre bush lot 

 belonging to this nursery and situated in Manvers Township. A considerable 

 number pf "wolf trees" and treeg of inferior species were felled, cut into cord- 



