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(5) Woodlot Improvement 



An area of twenty-five acres on the 200 acre cut-over block in Manvers was 

 carefully cleared of slash during the winter. The brush was piled and burned. 

 Reproduction is very promising in this area and a number of clumps of young 

 white pine from fifteen to twenty years old is showing excellent growth. 



(6) Publicity 



The Orono Community Memorial Park which immediately abuts the nursery 

 on the east has been increasingly popular this year, and we have co-operated 

 with them in giving a suitable approach to both the park and the nursery from 

 the village. 



Several addresses were given at various gatherings, notably the Agricultural 

 Short Courses in Durham and Peterborough Counties, the Orono Horticultural 

 Society and the Teachers' Convention of Durham County. In the latter case, 

 the 150 members of the convention were personally conducted through the 

 nursery and the various phases of the work were explained in detail, after a short 

 preliminary explanation had been given to the assembly at their place of meeting 



Judging by requests for repeats these talks are reaching interested persons. 



Exhibits at fall fairs were extended this year and an endeavour was made 

 to place the exhibit at strategic points. With this in view, widely separated 

 points were chosen and exhibits placed at Sunderland in Ontario County, Mark- 

 ham in York County, Orono in Durham County, Roseneath and Campbellford 

 in Northumberland County and Norwood in Peterborough County. Excellent 

 results were obtained in every case. At Norwood, in addition to the exhibit 

 being placed, a talk was given to the children of the senior rooms of the public 

 school by request of the principal, when they came to the exhibit in a body, on 

 the evening before the fair. 



MiDHURST 



(1) Nursery Operations 

 (a) Fertilizers: 



Owing to the fact that this nursery is still in the stage of development — 

 considerable new land being opened up each year, a large quantity of manure is 

 required to build the soil up, physically as well as from a chemical standpoint. 



In the old nursery land, as soon as the trees are lifted for shipping or trans- 

 planting, the ground is worked well, and manure, if on hand, is applied before 

 the land is sown to a green manure crop. This consists of peas, soy beans or 

 clover. 



This year we inoculated all our green manure crop seed with nitro culture. 

 This culture produced marked success in the forming of nitrogen-producing 

 nodules on the sweet clover and peas, but we had no success with the formation 

 of nodules on our soy beans. 



These green crops are ploughed down in August. Well-rotted manure at 

 the rate of twenty tons per acre for seed bed land and a lighter application for 

 transplant land is then applied. The soil is then lightly "top" worked to destroy 

 all weed seeds that may germinate. 



