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FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Summary of 1909 Tree Distribution* — (Concluded) 



o B 



< 



160 



101 



162 



163 



164 



16s 



166 



167 



168 



169 



170 



171 



I 72 



173 

 174 

 175 



176 



177 



178 



179 

 180 



181 

 182 



183 



184 



185 



186 



187 



188 

 189 



COUNTY 



WHERE 



PLANTED 



Nassau 



Suffolk 



Suffolk 



Essex 



Chenango. . . 



Essex 



Chautauqua 

 Hamilton. . . 

 Herkimer. . . 

 Schuyler . . . 

 Westchester 



Albany 



Putnam. . . . 

 Suffolk.. . .-. 



Ulster 



Rensselaer. . 



Oswego 



Warren 



Warren . . . . 



Lewis 



Franklin . . . 



Fulton 



Franklin. . . . 



Fulton 



Chautauqua. 

 Franklin. . . . 



Albany 



Erie 



Oswego 



Oswego . . . . 



Total 



trees 

 planted 



900 



900 



900 



5,000 



1 ,000 



10 ,000 



6 ,000 



1 ,000 



1 ,000 



1 , 200 



1 ,000 



2,150 



600 



2 ,000 



1 , 000 



500 



15 ,000 



10 ,000 



1 ,000 

 6 ,000 



500 



2 ,ooo 



700 



2 ,000 



250 

 3,000 



Refused 

 Refused 

 5,000 

 9 ,000 



Acres 

 planted 



4 

 1 



1 1 



2 



12 



1 1 



4 

 7l 



Per 



cent, 

 living 



98 

 98 

 5° 

 90 



95 



60 

 80 



85 

 80 



90 

 90 

 90 

 90 

 90 



95 

 95 



Cost of 

 plant- 

 ing per 

 acre, in- 

 cluding 

 trees 



Opinion of 

 reforesting 



$8 00 

 7 00 

 7 00 



6 10 



6 50 



15 00 

 10 00 



5 72 



6 00 



7 75 

 3 °° 

 7 75 



16 00 

 16 00 



Favorable 

 Favorable 

 Necessary. . 

 Necessary.. 



Necessarv. . 



Favorable . 

 Important . 

 Important . 

 Important. 



Necessary . 

 Necessary. . 

 Necessary. . 



Necessarv. . 



Estimated 

 acres of 

 land in 



town that 

 ought to 



be planted 



3,000 

 1 ,000 



5,000 



4 ,000 



* Whenever blanks appear no report had been received when report was prepared, 

 t Transplanted in garden for one year. 



This shows that through our efforts 1 ,000 acres of private land were 

 reforested during the past year. The trees were set at various spacings 

 from as wide as 10 ft. by 10 ft. to as close as 6 ft. by 6 ft. ; and some of the 

 trees were used for underplanting, while a quantity of seedlings were set 

 in nursery rows for planting in 19 10 which, when planted, will increase 

 the above acreage. The success of the work is indicated by the very high 

 percentage (average 90 per cent.) living at the end of the first season, 

 coupled with the most favorable opinions in regard to this work. 



The most variable figures are given for the cost of planting. The 

 prices range from $3 per acre for underplanting, when four hundred trans- 



