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office and men's eating house, was raised and a cellar dug beneath it. The office 

 was enlarged and the rest of the building converted into a tool house. Seven 

 portable lavatories were built as well as twenty-eight bird houses. 



Since the property is traversed with highways and the main line of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway passes through it, it has been necessary to pay more 

 attention to beautification. 



The lawns in front of the houses have been improved and clumps of trees 

 and flower plots have been started where they will most impress the tourists and 

 visitors. 



Old rail, stump and wire boundary fences have been removed and replaced 

 with better and stronger wire fences. All unsightly objects are being removed 

 or else covered from view by planted trees. The land adjoining the pump-house 

 has been improved in appearance and laid out as the future park, 



(3) Permanent Planting. 



A new piece of property consisting of one hundred acres adjoining Highway 

 26 was laid out into two-acre compartments. These are being permanently 

 planted with different species and mixtures at different spacings, so that it will 

 be a large experimental forest, with no two blocks exactly the same. 



The following species were planted: — 



Species: Number 



Red Pine 23,100 



White Pine 4,000 . 



Scotch Pine 3,200 



European La^ch 2,420 



White Spruce 900 



. Jack Pine 300 



Total 33,920 



During the spring the output of the Nursery for permanent planting was 

 2,604,810. 



(4) Protection 



All plantations were thoroughly inspected during the summer. A few 

 isolated patches infested with pine-needle eating caterpillar were sprayed and 

 all pine leaders infected with the white pine weevil were destroyed. 



The poplar cankers (Hypoxylon pruniatum) which attacks large-toothed 

 poplars up to ten inches D.B.H., continues to kill hundreds of trees through this 

 part of the country. Trees affected with this disease are removed on this station 

 as soon as they are detected. A few small patches of pine-needle eating cater- 

 pillars were again discovered this year and destroyed. 



There were very few cases of pines being affected with weevils. Those 

 that were affected were Scotch pine and their leaders were removed and placed 

 in screened barrels. 



All fire-guards were kept clean and several guards along the railway track 

 and highways were widened and stumped. 



On account of the drive by the Department of Agriculture and the township 

 councils against weeds in the County of Simcoe, a special effort was made this 

 year to keep the property in as clean a condition as possible. This was a difficult 

 task because of the rainy summer and the abundance of weed seeds in the soil 

 of newly acquired property. 



