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A few persons have started seed beds of their own. One man 

 will have 150,000 two-year-old seedlings to nse from his own 

 growing next spring, while another estimates he will have from 

 250,000 to 350,000. Many more will have smaller lots. 



Larger State Nursery needed. 



The time has come when the State shonld have a more defi- 

 nite forest nursery policy. It is deemed practically necessary 

 that the State operate a nursery of sufficient size to raise its 

 own trees for reforestation purposes under the reforestation act. 

 It is believed the State Eorester will be unable to secure suffi- 

 cient suitable land in large enough area on the farm of the 

 Agricultural College to carry on the work necessary. The col- 

 lege already feels cramped for land, and the small tract used 

 for the present nursery, which is altogether inadequate for the 

 needs of the coming year, is allowed us only temporarily. If 

 the college trustees feel unable to allow the State Forester 

 double the area where the present nursery is located, it will 

 necessitate making plans elsewhere. A water supply should be 

 put in, more screens made and a better work shed built. The 

 nursery should also be fenced off, as damage has repeatedly 

 resulted from animals getting loose and trampling the beds. 

 These improvements will be necessary, whether we remain at 

 the college or move the nursery elsewhere. 



The State Forester shoidd lie given sufficient funds for estab- 

 lishing a nursery commensurate with the carrying out of the 

 reforestation act, for, as already demonstrated, it amounts only 

 to lending the money to carry on work that will be returned to 

 the State treasury later in the sale of forest products. 



New York State last year published a bulletin offering forest 

 tree seedlings and transplants from the State forest nursery to 

 any one who would guarantee to plant them in that State, at the 

 following prices : — 



White pine transplants, $4.25 per 1,000, f.o.b. 



White pine seedlings (2 years olil), . . . 2.25 per 1,000, f.o.b. 



Scotch pine transplants, 3.75 per 1,000, f.o.b. 



Scotch pine seedlings, ..... 2.25 per 1,000, f.o.b. 



