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they represent very considerable 

 money value — a potential forest 

 which some day will give wood 

 crops and render every square rod 

 of the sandy waste as good a rev- 

 enue producer as can be found in the 

 county. 



Hardwoods are also grown in en- 

 ormous quantities, such varieties as 

 ash and hard maple, elm, nettle tree, 

 etc., reaching a growth in one year's 

 time that surprises all who guage 

 tree growing possibilities by unaid- 

 ed natural processes. These, too, 

 are kept in perfect condition by 

 weeding and artificial moisture. 



On the property owned by the De- 

 partment are substantial areas of 

 hardwood and mixed forest. They 

 have been heavily interplanted with 

 evergreens which are showing good 

 development and will, in time, 

 greatly improve the value of the 

 woodlands. Means of protection 

 against fire have been taken in all 

 sections of the property, four miles 



of ploughed fire guards, carefully 

 tented, traversing the timbered sec- 

 tions and keeping the young growth 

 clear of risk. 



Planting Up the Sands. 



Of course, one of the first objects 

 of establishing the Government 

 Nurseries in Norfolk County was to 

 bring it into direct relation to the 

 problem of barren lands. Thi^ will 

 be dealt with in a subsequent, arti- 

 cle. Norfolk County, which in 

 parts, has ideal fertility of soil, pos- 

 sesses ten thousand acres of sand in 

 one block in the townships of Wal- 

 singham and Charlotteville. To re- 

 claim this once useful area to the 

 purposes of timber growing, so that 

 no square mile of the county shall 

 bear the stigma of 'barren,' has for 

 some years engaged the attention of 

 the Department. Large tracts have 

 been planted many hundreds of 

 thousands of trees being taken for 

 this purpose from the nurseries. 



A thick growth of Scotch and jack pine at St. Williams, six years 

 from the nursery, or about nine years from seed. 



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