the woods of a private owner is not likely to fare much 

 better. 



Reforestation 



The work of re-stocking denuded portions of the 

 lands was continued both along the regular (practical 

 or commercial) as well as experimental lines. The 

 idea of re-clothing the lands with a valuable forest has 

 received first attention but all along it is realized that 

 much may be gained for the Reserves and for other 

 enterprises in this region, by trying species not native 

 to the locality and by various ways of propagating the 

 species at home on these lands. Plantations were 

 made in the spring of 1904 and 1905. These planta- 

 tions, as reported before, were all made in Section 36 

 ofT25N, R4W, near Higgins' lake. They were 

 made on ordinary cut and burned over pinery lands, 

 covered to quite an extent by great quantities of 

 debris, old rotten logs and stumps and by a broken 

 ground cover of small shrubbery, together with 

 patches of larger shrubs and small trees of oak, few 

 poplar, maple, cherry, etc. Both years the plants 

 were set out by a crew of men working in pairs, one to 

 cut open a spot about 18x18 inches and dig the hole 

 for the tree, and the other man, with the small trees 

 in a pail to do the planting. 



The material used was all purchased from different 

 nurseries and therefore suffered from handling, count- 

 ing, packing, shipping, etc. This material consisted of: 



Besides these there were planted in the nursery: 



Douglas spruce (red fir) , 



Western yellow pine 



Blue spruce 



1,000 



1,000 

 500 



and a few of the different kinds listed above. 



Of the trees set out in 1904, the Scotch pine did best, 

 full 90 per cent being alive and this year's growth 

 averaging about six inches for each plant. The white 

 pine and Norway spruce had suffered in handling and 

 the harm was increased by a dry planting season. The 

 white pine made little growth, but still about 60 to 70 

 per cent are alive at present. The Norway spruce 

 fared hardest, not over 50 per cent being alive at pres- 

 ent, but those which survived made generally a pretty 

 fair growth. Black locust all lives, and though it 

 killed back during the winter, it promises fair to make 

 wood. -^ # ; 4$- . . ... , &:( 



The plantation of this year (1905) fared better than 

 did that of last year, the plant stock with the excep- 

 tion of cottonwood, suffered less in handling and 

 the season was better, both for planting and after. In 

 this year's planting the white pine held its own with 

 the Scotch pine, the per cent of living plants being 

 high for both. The catalpa, of special interest here 

 on account of climate and soil, both being very severe 



