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(2) Improvements 

 Buildings. 



A combined office and lunch room, twenty-six feet by thirty-six feet was 

 erected on the foundation previously installed. The building is of frame 

 construction with a shingled roof. The first floor comprises an office with a small 

 room adjoining for office storage, lunch room and lavatory accommodation. 

 The second floor was made available by the use of a gambrel roof and was 

 finished for special storage purposes or emergency accommodation. The building 

 is lathed and plastered throughout and lighted with electricity. 



Roads and Bridges. 



The drive through the southern section of the nursery was widened to 

 twenty-one feet, graded up throughout its length and gravelled. Two concrete 

 culverts were built for drainage purposes. Two miles of township road adjoining 

 the Nursery on the west was also widened, graded and gravelled. The approach 

 from the village was further improved. 



During the year the implement shed, tool-house, workshop and barn were 

 wired for electricity. 



(3) Permanent Planting 



A small area of eight acres was planted out this year to spruce — four acres 

 being pure white spruce and four acres pure Norway spruce. In all, 9,750 

 spruce were used in these plots — 4,875 white spruce and the same quantity, 

 4,875 of Norway spruce. 



In the two hundred acre block in Manvers Township, on a strip of some 

 thirty acres on the south end which was burned over during the summer of 1929 

 a beginning was made at clear-cutting all injured trees. Uninjured pine, oak 

 and maple are being left to insure some seed trees but certain sections will have 

 to be planted in order that the establishment of a reasonable stand may not be 

 unduly delayed. 



.(4) Protection 

 Animal. 



The nuisance of girdling by mice was reduced to a minimum. Squirrels 

 again proved a nuisance and became so bold that shooting was the only remedy. 

 We experienced the usual trouble with crows in the butternut and walnut areas 

 but after several had been shot little further damage was noted. Rabbits were 

 very numerous last winter and considerable damage was done. By the use of 

 ferrets, however, marked progress was made in ridding the neighbourhood of 

 these pests during the past season. 



Insects. 



Very little damage was noted this year from the white pine weevil in the 

 nursery itself or in adjacent plantations. A number of white pine of from eight 

 to ten feet in height on the 200-acre block in Manvers were attacked, however, 

 and it was necessary to adopt the usual control measures — the infected leaders 

 were removed and placed in screened containers. 



The larvae of the June bug, which have been reported as being so prevalent 

 in eastern Ontario this year, were very abundant in the Durham Forest planta- 

 tions. Several areas of an acre or more were completely denuded of all vegetation 



