1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



303 



Scotch and white pine and Norway 

 spruce were planted in groves at the 

 foot and top and in rows up the side 

 of the mountain. At present these 

 trees are four feet high. When set 

 out they were but a foot high. 



The next plantation was started in 

 1902, 250,000 trees being set out near 



set out along the railroad leading from 

 Lake Clear to Saranac Lake. 



Four miles from Paul Smith's is lo- 

 cated the fourth plantation. Ninety- 

 eight per cent, of the trees set out are 

 growing rapidly. Last fall another 

 plantation was made on the property 

 of the State hospital at Raybrook and 



J. B. LIPPINCOTT 



In whose resignation the United States Reclamation Service has lost the 

 services of a splendid engineer. 



Lake Clear Junction in the Adiron- 

 dacks. The trees included consider- 

 able Norway spruce, Scotch pine, bl- 

 and larch. The average growth of 

 these trees last year was eighteen 

 inches, some growing fully two feet. 

 In the same year 250,000 trees were 



still another was established near 

 Placid. The work (if the forestry de- 

 partment this spring, under the super- 

 vision of Abraham ECnechtel, has been 



confined to additions to the plantations 

 made and in testing tree seeds. The 

 forestry department reports that seeds 



