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of the tract. The reason for pro- 

 viding the second nursery was in order 

 to get better soil Lhan was available 

 at Axton and also to have a supply of 

 nursery stock near Ihc scene of opera- 

 tions. The Wawbeek Division, being 

 nearest to Tupper Lake, was to be 

 cut over first. In the report sub- 

 mitted in January 1900, 1,500,000 

 seedlings were reported in the nursery 

 at Axton, and in the report submitted 

 in January, 1902, the number of 

 seedlings in stock in both nurseries 

 was given as 1,250,000. 



Ten Dollars per Acre 



Plantations were made in 1901 and 

 1902, on a total of 225 acres, partly 

 on the cut over areas and partly on 

 old fields and burns, 232,000 trees, 

 two and three year old seedlings, 

 being used for the purpose. The cost 

 of planting, including cost of stock, 

 was about $10 per acre. The species 

 used were white pine, Douglas fir and 

 Norway spruce, with lesser quantities 

 of Scotch pine, Riga pine, European 

 larch, red pine and white spruce. 



A visit made to these plantations 

 in 1906 showed the young trees hardly 

 visible among the undergrowth of 

 ferns and other vegetation, the whole 

 experiment abandoned and the plan- 

 tations left to take care of themselves 

 owing to opposition, powerful in 

 political circles, from people who 

 objected to any timber operations 

 in the district at all, and who finally 

 secured the veto of the appropriation 

 for the Forest School. 



The plantations, though without 

 care and in spite of some damage from 

 fire, have remained, and an oppor- 

 tunity of visiting them during the 

 present year allowed of some com- 

 parisons and an appreciation of the 

 development of the plantations. Un- 

 fortunately from some points of view, 

 the visit was made alone and there- 

 fore unaccompanied by anybody who 

 had been connected with the experi- 

 ment and who could have made the 

 visit more instructive On the other 

 hand, the conclusions reached are 

 unbiassed from the absence of such 

 a mentor. 



Sixteen Year Old Scotch Pine, Axton, 

 Adirondacks. 



Fine Height Growth 



A plantation of white pine, Scotch 

 pine and Norway spruce, westward 

 of the headquarters at Axton, was 

 found to be growing vigorously, the 

 pine trees reaching eighteen to twenty 

 feet in height and making rapid height 

 growth. The Scotch pine had made 

 the most robust growth but the white 

 was healthy and adding rapidly to 

 its height. While the spruce gen- 

 erally lagged behind it was not un- 

 healthy and in some cases its height 

 growth rivalled that of the pines. 

 Nearer the headquarters even finer 

 specimens of planted white pine were 

 found associated with some evidently 

 of older growth To the east a plan- 

 tation of Scotch pine, which had evi- 

 dently been set out on an old field 

 and is an outstanding feature of the 

 landscape, was visited and showed 



