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Thirty acres of land suitable for nursery purposes were cleaned up, stumped 

 and seeded to rye and vetch which will be ploughed under in the spring of 1930. 

 The area in question has, moreover, been subdivided into six 5-acre compart- 

 ments, and next spring it is the intention to establish permanent windbreaks de- 

 limiting each block. 



Considerable building was done at Station No. 1. Three old barns which 

 were on the property when it was first purchased, and which have been an eye- 

 sore in an otherwise beautiful setting, were torn down, and the material, as 

 much as was serviceable, used over again in the construction of a new implement 

 shed. 



Other buildings erected during the year include a barn, 36 feet by 54 feet, 

 and a standing stable, 22 feet by 44 feet in dimension. All of these buildings 

 have hip roofs, providing thereby additional inside storage space. 



(3) Permanent Planting 



Extension in the programme of experimental plantations at Station No. 2 

 was'carried out. All blanks, due principally to an abnormally dry summer, were 

 replanted. Seven new two-acre plots were surveyed, cleaned of scrub oak and 

 completed the planting of the White Spruce group. This group now comprises 

 twenty-four plantations, each exactly two acres in size. White Spruce forms the 

 base species for each plantation. Different spacing is used and mixed planting 

 with other conifers and hardwoods individualize each of the twenty-four plots. 



A detailed record of each plantation is maintained on all matters concerning 

 origin and cost of planting material, cost of preparing the site, cost of spotting, 

 planting and any subsequent fillings where losses may demand that such be made. 



In preparation for next spring's planting of the Red Pine group, twenty-one 

 two-acre plots were surveyed and furrowed, as in the case of the White Spruce 

 group. Red Pine will be the base species used in each of these epxerimental plots. 



A 100-acre plot known as the "Hunt" property was recently added to the 

 Crown holdings at Station No. 2, This area had previously been reforested to 

 .Scotch Pine, and it was felt that results would be better assured if the area were 

 converted into a mixed planting. In accordance, therefore, every other row of 

 the exislent young Scotch Pine was cut out and 32,500 four-year-old Red Pine 

 established in the gaps thus created. 



Reclamation planting on blow sand and other sides subject to erosion entailed 

 the setting-out of 7,300 Rooted Poplar, 298,000 Carolina Poplar cuttings, 250 

 Rooted Willow, 500 White Ash, 5,300 Japanese Larch, 400 Red Oak, 100 Beach, 

 10,500 Black Locust, 400 Birch and 8,000 Jack Pine. 



Two new plantations were established at Station No. 1, a total area of 22.4 

 acres being planted to 25,700 Red Pine. 



On account of flooding it was necessary to plant 8,000 Rooted Carolina 

 Poplar and 4,100 White Ash to replace Red and White Pine losses in depressions 

 at various points on Plantation No. 38. 



Returns from thinnings that have been made from time to time in older 

 plantations reveal some very interesting figures. 



History of Plantations. 



Price afifixations are governed by the actual money receipts derived from the 

 sale of wood, and an equivalent of the current price paid for seed-bed stakes. 



Material for seed-bed construction has in previous years been purchased 

 from local merchants, and entailed a considerable expenditure of money. Con- 



