from time to time to coform to prevailing conditions, 

 "but the principle upon which the system is based is 

 unehangT ? has shown g- ing result; . ev/ methods 



adopted at the Sareaac. Nursery are termed "i'orest Service 



hods", abbreviates "i .. . 

 2. Season. 



il stock is trrn e-J in the 



iting having been abandoned bQMMRl of frost heavii . 

 ns planting is almys a rush job as it must be done 

 before the stock starts its season's growth. Last spring 

 the work WES started ;-pril 16 and completed iiay 11. It 

 is believed that the transplant season may be lengthened 

 by keeping the seedling stock to be transplanted, In cold 

 storage. 

 3 . Prepa ra t ion o f t lie ^ro und . 



tt tion 01 orops on our transplant ground has 

 been somewhat irregular, ^idle ' t'cex a harvest of trees, 

 the ground is generally sowed to a green fertiliser or is 

 summer fallowed, or both, the practice has not been 

 systematized so tbat all ground IE ted alilre. The 



main reason for this is tnat the different blocks of 

 transplants --re scattered instead of being grouped in 

 the field. 



If the ground is not smiuner fallowed, it is 

 plowc cross-plowed in the fall. least a week 



before transplanting, it is plowed agtin, harrowed and 



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