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was altogether too uncertain in its results. The methods he 

 recommended were the most profitable in the end. 



Aai'on Low said he recollected two pastures now completely 

 overgrown with a thick growth of pine of nature's own sowing. 



Kenneth Finlayson inquired as to the most suitable time to 

 plant pines. 



Mr. Borst said that the best time is in the spring just after the 

 last frost is out of the ground. That is one of the advantages 

 of forestry ; it can be done before the spring work comes on. 

 He said, in answer to questions, that the cost of seedlings two 

 years old was six dollars a thousand and that they should be 

 planted five by five or six by six feet apart. The cost per acre 

 would depend a good deal upon conditions but would be about 

 nine to fifteen dollars. A planting plan was the first thing to 

 arrange. He further stated that the chestnut would give returns 

 in twenty years, and that unimproved lands planted to forest 

 growth would pay interest on the amount of taxes paid out by 

 the owners. 



A gentleman remarked that a discouraging feature of white 

 pine growing was the damage done by the 2:)ine tree weevil which 

 destroyed the leader in young trees, and asked if any remedy for 

 this trouble was knoAvn. 



Mr. Borst said that he knew of no preventive of this evil, but 

 suggested spraying and the destruction of badly infested trees. 



In reply to a question he said that the white pine will not do 

 well near the sea. 



