No. 123.] STATE NURSERY INSPECTOR. 



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Barre Demonstration Area, 1918. 



Types. 



Number 



of 



Acres 



covered 



for 

 Ribes. 



Number 

 of Wild 

 Goose- 

 berries. 



Number 



of 

 Skunk 

 Cur- 

 rants. 



Average 

 Number 

 of Ribes 

 per Acre. 



Average 

 Number 

 of Hours 



Man 

 Labor per 



Acre. 



Average 



Cost 

 per Acre. 



Old pine, 

 Young pine, 

 Mixed pine. 

 Hardwood, . 

 Brush, 

 Swamp, 



Skunk currant areas, 

 Pasture, 

 Miscellaneous stone wall, etc 

 Total, all types, . 



340 

 551 

 370 

 456 

 3,752 

 367 



m 



2,251J-^ 



2,630 



1,888 



3,119 



1,739 



34,260 



11,711 



255 



6,310 



2,410 



2,659 



403 



13,239 



12,820 



43,187 



29,999 



77,575 



580 



326 



15.5 



4.1 



44.2 



31.9 



20.6 



113.6 



10,377.3 



3.2 



8,095 



64,322 



180,788 



30.3 



1.2 

 1.6 

 2.1 

 1.5 

 1.7 

 2.7 

 33.8 

 .6 



1.5 



$0 512 



650 



852 



681 



1 097 



1 097 



13 380 



258 



$0 599 



An inspection of the cultivated Ribes was made in Lenox, 

 Lee and Stockbridge where the wild Ribes had been removed in 

 1917, and 256 diseased cultivated bushes were destroyed this 

 year. 



The Legislature appropriated $8,000 last spring to be used 

 under certain conditions for reimbursing persons who lost culti- 

 vated Ribes through the action of the State Nursery Inspector. 

 Most of the claims were submitted by parties living in the 

 eradication areas where the bushes were destroyed in 1917. 

 The following scale was adopted as a basis for the settlement of 

 all claims: — 



1. Fruiting plants of black, white or red currants in a good state of 

 cultivation and care, four years or over, 50 cents each plant. (Same on 

 gooseberries.) 



2. Fruiting plants of black, white or red varieties in a good state of 

 cultivaition and care, two to four years, 35 cents each plant. (Same on 

 gooseberries.) 



3. Fruiting plants run down, depreciated by age or lack of recent care 

 (reference had to plants capable of rejuvenation), 25 cents each plant. 

 (Same on gooseberries.) 



4. Good plants, but neglected, unpruned, in sod and uncultivated, 10 

 cents each plant. 



