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REPORT OF THE 



No. 3 



PLANTATION INSPECTION. 



Inspection of plantations was carried on this year over the greater part of 

 Western Ontario, embracing the following counties: Welland, Lincoln, Haldi- 

 mand, Simcoe, Grey, Wellington, Dufferin, Waterloo, Perth, Middlesex, Brant, 

 Oxford, Wentworth, York, Peel, Halton, Peterborough, Durham, Northumber- 

 land. 



Taking into account the inspection done in previous years this means that 

 with the exteption of a few plantations in the northern pa^ t of Old Ontario, the 

 whole of the penisular part of the Province has been covered with the exception 

 of the counties bordering Lake Huron and Kent, Essex and Norfolk Counties. 

 The total area of these plantations inspected amounts to some five hundred 

 acres. There were 448 plantations inspected, none of those having fewer than 

 500 trees were visited; of these approximately 84 per cent, have been successful, 

 making 30 per cent, and over, as the test of success. 



The trees were found to be remarkably free of disease. There were no cases 

 of white pine blister rust and only a very few of white pine weevil. ' An exception 



Fig. 5. — -Type I: Butt rot of balsam. 



to this rule is black locust, which almost everywhere is infested with borer, 

 though the trees are usually not killed for a long time by this insect. The 

 Scotch pine were invariably in a healthy condition. 



• The plantations were of all ages, ranging from those planted in the spring 

 of this year (though only a few of these were visited) to the oldest, which were 

 begun as far back as 1907 and 1908. Individually, the area of these averages 

 from three-quarters of an acre to one acre, though many were no more than 

 patches a few rods square. The largest visited were from eight to ten acres in 

 extent. There were very few of these. 



Below are given some height figures for various species ten years old, as 

 averaged from several of the more successful plantations. 



Scotch Pine 16.2 feet 



White Pine .'. 10.4 " 



Jack Pine 15.3 " 



White Ash 11.3 " 



Walnut 7.9 " 



Soft-Maple 13.5 " 



