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Appendix No. 88. 

 Report oe the Forestry Branch. 



Sir, — I have the honor to present herewith the First Annual Report of the 

 Forestry Branch for the year 1913. 



During the autumn of 1912, I was traasf erred from the Department of Agri- 

 culture to the Department of Lands, Forests and Mines. Since my transfer, the 

 work in this Branch, has been largely concerned with general questions of reforest- 

 ation and particularly the administration of the Norfolk Forest Station. This 

 Branch has also had charge of the fire protection, along the railways in Ontario 

 which are under the jurisdiction of the Board of Railway Commissioners for 

 Canada. In addition to the above duties, various forest investigations and minor 

 reports have been made and a course of lectures in forestry has been delivered to 

 the students at the Ontario Agricultural College. 



Norfolk FoREsr Station. 



The Norfolk Forest Station was started in 1909 and to-day contains 1,500 

 acres of land. This land is composed of sandy ridges and is made up of second- 

 growth pine and oak; abandoned fields and blow sand ridges. The chief work 

 being carried on at this station is the production of nursery stock for local planting 

 and for distribution to prospective planters, throughout the Province. 



Forest Nurseries. 



The Forest Nurseries have produced during this last season a very good lot 

 of planting material. There is at present in the nurseries 846,000 plants in 

 nursery lines and '400,000 seedlings in seed beds. 



The following is an approximate estimate of the nursery stock : — 



In Nursery Lines. 



White Pine 227,000 



Scotch Pine 266,000 



Red or Norway Pine 92,500 



White Cedar 40,000 



Bull Pine 7,000 



Black Locust | 80,000 



^VHite Ash 20,000 



Sugar Maple 60,000 



. Soft Maple 20,000 



Black Walnut 10,000 



Butternut 4,000 



Miscellaneous 20,000 



In Seed Beds. 



White Pine 300,000 



Red or Norway Pine 100,000 



Jack Pine 50,000 



Miscellaneous 50,000 



