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of age, will withstand the sunshine which affects the one- 

 year trees. 



Experiment. 



(1) Cost of Digging Native Pine Seedlings. The writer 

 in taking his forestry class into the woods always called 

 attention to the value of the native seedlings and their 

 importance. At different times these classes took up and 

 transplanted seedlings of different ages to gain experience 

 in handling and to make a study of their root development. 

 From this experience it developed that these seedlings could 

 readily be made to live, provided they had made two years 

 of growth and were normally healthy. A large number of 

 the first-year seedlings were transplanted into the nursery 

 row with the idea of growing them where they could be 

 shaded and given better conditons. They were so small, 

 however, and took so much time that the idea was aban- 

 doned as not practical. When they are allowed to remain 

 two years in the woods, provided, as already explained, that 

 the conditions are favorable, neither too dark nor exposed to 

 direct sunshine and in good soil, they make a large enough 

 growth so that they are easily handled and about the right 

 size. 



In the spring of 1904, an experiment was carried out in 

 handling a number of the native seedlings found growing 

 in various places in the vicinity of Durham. All of the 

 seedlings came from the seed crop of September, 1901. 

 Many of the students at the New Hampshire College help 

 defray their expenses while attending the institution, and 

 it was these boys who did the work under the supervision 

 of one of their own number, ]\Ir. W. P. Flint, who is special- 

 izing in forestry. 



The work of digging was begun on April 18th. The best 

 method for digging was found to be by the use of the nurs- 

 eryman's hoe. This implement is not in common use, but 

 can be had from such a firm as Joseph Breck & Co., of 

 Boston, or ordered through any good hardware dealer. It 



