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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



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fifty of the latest type seed-beds have been installed, and water 

 conditions improved by the laying of a larger main from the 

 college grounds to the connection with our nursery. A tele- 

 phone also aids materially in the transaction of business. 



Three classes of stock are shipped from our nursery. The 

 first is for use on the lots which we have taken over under the 

 reforestation law, and is largely transplanted material. The 

 second class goes to other State institutions, which under the 

 nursery law we furnish with forest planting stock, and is partly 

 transplanted and partly seedling material, according to whether 

 it is intended for use in the field or for the transplanting in 

 their own nurseries. The third class is seedling material which 

 we send to our nurseries for transplanting. 



Stock for planting on Reforestation Lands. 

 White pine (four-year transplants), . 

 White pine (three-year transplants), 

 Norway spruce (three-year transplants), 

 White ash (two-year seedlings), 

 European larch (two-year seedlings), 



390,000 



210,000 



16,000 



5,000 



6,000 



Stock shipped to Other State Departments. 



Metropolitan Park Commission (two-year seedlings), . . . 200,000 



Metropolitan Water Board (two-year seedlings), .... 300,000 



Fisheries and Game Commission (two-year seedlings), . . . 50,000 



Fisheries and Game Commission (three-year transplants), . . 3,000 



Reforestation Work. 



The lands taken over under the terms of the reforestation 

 law can be divided into two classes. The first is land pur- 

 chased outright by the State, which it is probable it will hold 

 as a permanent investment, and the second is land which pri- 

 vate owners have deeded to the State without cost, for the pur- 

 pose of having the State Forester plant and care for it for a 

 period not to exceed ten years, when they will redeem the 

 land by paying the cost of reforesting and maintenance. The 

 first we call purchased lands, and the second deeded lands. 



Reforestation work usually partakes of two operations, — 

 planting and brush cutting. On old pasture land, and often on 

 cut-over pine land where sprout or bush growth does not come 



