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sity to chop and change as experience and opportunity indicated. Such changes, 

 discouraging in any case, must have been much more so when made, as they 

 frequently were, for what, to an outsider, must have appeared as trivial or 

 obscure reasons. 



III. Reforestation. 



Provincial Forestry Station, St. Williams: 



The broadening-out policy, in preparation for the many reforestation 

 projects which are facing the Government, has been emphasized during the 

 year at St. Williams. A description of the work done is as follows: 



Seed Beds. — Spring sowing of seed beds commenced April 5th and con- 

 tinued until June 9th. In all, 605 beds, each 30 feet long by 4 feet wide, were 

 sown, the amount of seed used being 59 1| pounds of all species. Fall sowing 

 of seed beds commenced November 15th and continued until December 10th. 

 340 beds of the same size were sown, requiring 3951 pounds of seed. 



SPRING SOWING. 



FALL SOWING. 



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Besides the sowing of these beds, the following hardwood species were 

 sown in drills: Red Oak, 10 bushels; Black Walnut, 25 bushels; and Sweet 

 Chestnut, 1^ bushels. 



Nursery Lines. — During the spring 50,000 one-year-old jack pine seedlings 

 were lined out; also a shipment of 40,000 white spruce and 60,000 Scotch pine, 

 purchased from the Quebec Nursery. During the autumn, 1,000,000 Scotch 



