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foresting its lands. The water boards of Glens Falls, Waterville, and 

 Ilion begin the coming spring. The board of water supply of the city of 

 New York, which has charge of the large Ashokan reservoir, has asked 

 our assistance in regard to planting and a site has been selected for a nursery. 



Mr. W. H. Faxton, of Chestertown, probably has some of the finest 

 plantations in the State. One of his plantations, of white pine, made in 

 1884 now has a fine cut of merchantable material. Until this year, Mr. 

 Faxton made all his plantations with native pines collected in the vicinity, 

 but as the supply was limited, he has not been able to plant as much as 

 he desired. He is now using trees from our nurseries. He is a firm believer 

 in tree planting as an investment and is buying wornout farm land for the 

 sole purpose of planting. 



The Great Bear Spring Company, of Fulton, probably planted more 

 trees than any other party in this State during the year. They have 

 several hundred acres of land which they are rapidly reforesting as a pro- 

 tection to their valuable springs. In the past few years they have re- 

 forested a large area. 



As a result of much correspondence and information secured from 

 various sources, we believe that various private owners have in the last 

 few years, exclusive of 1909, reforested nearly 2,000 acres of land. 



Nurseries 



Our five nurseries are located as follows: Saranac Nursery and Forest 

 Experiment Station at Saranac Inn Station; Lake Clear and Patnode 

 Nursery near Lake Clear Junction; and Salamanca Nursery at Salamanca. 



Saranac Nursery. The work in this nursery has been conducted the 

 same as in past years. This nursery supplied the following quantities of 

 stock which were sold to private parties last spring: 



White pine, 4- year old transplants 66,000 



Red pine, 4- year old transplants 13 , 000 



Bull pine, 3-year old transplants 18,000 



Scotch pine, 3-year old transplants 123 ,000 



220,000 



