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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Plaxting done under Advice oe State Forester. 



Name. 



Town. 



Variety. 



No. of 

 Trees. 



Amherst Water Company, 

 Holyoke Water Company, 

 Leominster Water Company, . 

 Westfleld Water Company, 

 Harlow Brook Cranberrj- Company 



Fred Barclay 



Lewis I. Wright, 



E. E. Rice 



D. H. Rice 



N. D. Bill 



E. P. Dunbar 



A. II. Hall 



Brown Bros, and John Folsom, 



Amherst, 

 Holyoke, 

 Leominster, . 

 Westfleld, 

 Wareham, 

 Spencer, 

 Gardner, 

 Boston, . 

 Barre, . 

 Springfield, . 

 West Bridgewater, 

 Leominster, . 

 Wiuchendon, 



White pine, 

 White pine. 

 White pine, 

 White pine. 

 White pine. 

 White pine, 

 White pine, 

 White pine. 

 White pine. 

 Chestnut, 

 White pine, 

 White pine, 

 White pine. 



10,000 



10,000 

 7,000 

 7,000 

 5,000 



12,000 

 2,000 

 1,000 

 2,000 

 500 

 4,000 

 1,000 



50,000 



Evergreen Seedlings now imported Free of Duty. 



It may be of interest to know that the last session of Con- 

 gress removed the dntj on evergreen seedlings. This j^laces 

 the reforestation work with evergreens on a practical basis. 

 Our people will ultimately grow their own stock, and the foreign 

 importation will keep prices within bounds until that time. 

 The tariff heretofore was $1 per 1,000, and 15 per cent, ad 

 valorem. 



Forest Nursery. 



The State forest nursery at Amherst on the farm of the Ag- 

 ricultural College was again enlarged last spring, and we have 

 ])rospects of being able to use at least 1,200,000 white ])ine 

 two-year-old trees of our own growing in the reforestation work 

 throughout the State next spring. Besides white pine we also 

 have many other species in lesser lots, but all of value in the 

 State work. The detail table which follows may be of interest. 

 The State forest nursery work speaks for itself, when we show 

 that the total expense of carrying it on has been for three years 

 $5,749.60, and were we to sell the stock now on hand at cur- 

 rent prices it w^ould be worth $7,500. 



Meanwhile, we have been using seedlings and trans])lants 



